CBS Evening News with Barefoot Runners NYC

CBS Evening News did a segment on barefoot running in the run-up to the New York City Marathon.  Jim Axelrod joined Barefoot Runners NYC in Central Park for a run and demonstration.  You can watch segment below -- it ran on Friday evening.

The funny part is that Axelrod didn't even take off his shoes to give it a try.  He was planning on running the marathon today, and he didn't want to injure himself.  We gave him some grief for it, which got edited out.  Particularly my line about "You call this investigative journalism?"  I wonder if he sleeps in his shoes at night.

This is now the second time where a major news outlet came to film with us and the reporter was too afraid to actually go barefoot.  The Today Shoe reporter wouldn't do it either.  NEITHER REPORTER EVEN TOOK OFF THEIR SHOES.  We do two entire segments on barefoot running, at least half of the runners are barefoot, we tell them that barefoot is the recommended way to learn good running form, and they both come up with excuses.  Amazing.  Axelrod had just come back from North Korea.  Go figure. 

I'm all for "starting slow", but you at least have to "start".  Anyhow, Axelrod had a good sense of humor about it, he realized he was being a bit silly, and it's a nice segment.

(I don't know why this embed code ain't working right, here is the link.)