If you happened to be around Pearl Street in Boulder at the beginning of this week, you probably noticed lots of neon green Newton bags on people’s shoulders. (A couple of people tweeted asking what was going on) Or perhaps you saw colorful armies of runners all wearing our new green or aqua trail shoes taking over the Boulder Creek bike path.
Good looking group of runners!
At the start of this week around a hundred of Newton’s retailers descended on Boulder for three event-packed days. Amidst breakout sessions, form clinics, runs, and lunchtime discussions, the highlight of the week was definitely the Natural Running Industry Panel.
The Panel included Irene Davis, Mark Cucuzzella, Danny Abshire, Zola Budd, Danny Dreyer, and Jay Dicharry and was moderated by Brian Metzler.
Zola recounted her childhood where it was normal to walk barefoot to school, the mall, etc. She suggests keeping your kids out of shoes as long as possible so that their feet have time to develop correctly.
The clinics involved plenty of barefoot drills on the track.
Thanks to all who attended this weeks events, it was even more of a success than we had hoped for!
The pictures of everyone wearing trail shoes is just teasing us.
Any chance any video is going to get posted of the panel?
I kinda thought it was teasing, sorry
We are working on the video, it will be posted as soon as we are done editing.
Looking foward to sharing the video with my peeps
Can’t wait to get those trail runners on my feet! I want to use them for my ultra in the end of September. PLEASE no delays!
That is soooo teasing. I want a pair of the trail shoes so bad! I’m running the Warrior Dash this weekend at Copper and I’m praying I don’t trash my pair of Gravitas.