The 2019 Freedom Marathon
(Le Marathon de la liberté)
Date: June 16, 2019
My Time: 4:49:27
I ran barefoot and finished the race without any pain or injury, like Abebe Bikila in 1960 in Rome. While walking back to my accommodation in Caen, I saw the broom wagon following the last—injured and limping—runner, like a scavenger watching over a dying animal. Many shod runners didn’t even make it so far.
As I explain in my book Running Barefoot for Human Survival, doing a marathon in our artificial environment can and should be a very pleasant and painless experience: the shoes are the problem. Few years after switching to running with sneakers, Abebe Bikila learned the hard way that not a single animal species--not even Homo sapiens—is designed for running with shoes, or did he? Too many runners keep nonetheless thinking otherwise. Unfortunately, some of them end up suffering the fate of Abebe Bikila...
Media: Sidy Diallo a couru son 197e marathon pieds nus ! (Ouest-France Newspaper)
My Time: 4:49:27
I ran barefoot and finished the race without any pain or injury, like Abebe Bikila in 1960 in Rome. While walking back to my accommodation in Caen, I saw the broom wagon following the last—injured and limping—runner, like a scavenger watching over a dying animal. Many shod runners didn’t even make it so far.
As I explain in my book Running Barefoot for Human Survival, doing a marathon in our artificial environment can and should be a very pleasant and painless experience: the shoes are the problem. Few years after switching to running with sneakers, Abebe Bikila learned the hard way that not a single animal species--not even Homo sapiens—is designed for running with shoes, or did he? Too many runners keep nonetheless thinking otherwise. Unfortunately, some of them end up suffering the fate of Abebe Bikila...
Media: Sidy Diallo a couru son 197e marathon pieds nus ! (Ouest-France Newspaper)
Dr. Sidy Diallo's book Running Barefoot for Human Survival is available on Amazon in paperback and e-book format (French edition: Courir pieds nus pour sauver les humains).