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About Barefoot Ken Bob Saxton
Barefoot Ken Bob
Ken Bob Saxton is the leading instructor of barefoot running in the country, featured on ABC World News (2005), NPR, Runner’s World magazine, The New York Times, and many other newspapers, magazines, radio, and television appearances/mentions locally and around the world, as well as being acknowledged as the “great bearded sage” of barefoot running in the bestseller Born to Run, by Chris McDougall, who calls Ken Bob “The Master of Barefoot Running.”
Ken Bob has completed more than 400 races barefoot, including 79 marathons barefoot (and one marathon in shoes), and one ultra-marathon (50+ kilometers). Ken Bob has qualified for the Boston Marathon several times and “run” it twice. He enjoyed completing an astounding marathon-a-month challenge in 2004, which he topped with 14 marathons in 2006, including 4 marathons in a 15-day period–all barefoot.
Ken Bob has run tens of thousands of miles barefoot, just for fun, over the past 50+ years (no precise data, since most of the running was just for fun, and Ken Bob kept a running log for only 10 of those 50+ years).
“Barefoot” Ken Bob, as he is popularly known, has trained thousands of people across the country in person at his “Play-Fun-Shops” (clinics/workshops) and educated thousands of new barefoot runners throughout the world, from Mumbai to Oslo, via his popular website at BarefootRunning.com – which is the original Running Barefoot website (founded by Barefoot Ken Bob in 1997).
Sound Bites:
- Senior Adviser (2010), The Barefoot Runners Society
- Barefoot Running Guru (2010) for The Barefoot Runners Society
- President (2010) Los Angeles area chapter of The Barefoot Runners Society
- Editorial Panel, Advisor, and Writer(2012) for The Natural Born Runner Magazine
- Featured speaker (2012 August) at the Suggs Medical Symposium, Springfield IL
- Barefoot Running Step by Step (the book) sponsors (2011-2012) The Naked Foot 5K Series
- Co-author of Barefoot Running Step by Step (2011) with Roy M. Wallack
- Organizer and Guru: Running Barefoot Tour 2010
- Completed 79 Marathons Barefoot (1998 – 2012)
- Mentioned or appeared in Runner’s World Magazine at least 4 times (1999 – 2010)
- Featured in Sneaker Confidential (2006) Canadian Broadcasting Company
- Featured in Happy Feet (2005 November 5) ABC World News
- Featured in The Ballad of the Barefoot Runner (2004 August) Rosen KUTV
- Organizer and Guru: Running Barefoot Tour 2003
- Interviewed (for about 15 seconds) at the Los Angeles Marathon (2001 March 4) TV-13
- Featured in The Science of Trainers (2000) twentytwenty tv
- Founder and webmaster of the Running Barefoot website (1997)
Statistics
- (1955) Born in Traverse City MI
- (1957?) Running Barefoot since childhood (at least occasionally)
- (1980) Moved to Southern California
- (1987) Ran a marathon in shoes, feet were blistered (except soles) and toenails turned black and fell off
- (1987) Began running nearly exclusively barefoot
- (1990) Began commuting to and from work (occasionally) by running/walking barefoot
- (1996) Began running long distance (16-22 miles) on hilly trails
- (1997) Ran first official barefoot race 10-miles on rocky trails
- (1997) Founded The Running Barefoot website
- (1998) Last long run (18 miles) in shoes – feet were bleeding afterwards
- (1999 October 23) 5-Kilometer Personal Record: 17:43 Newport Beach CA
- (1999 June 17) 5-Mile Personal Record: 30:18 Long Beach CA
- (1999 April 17) 10-Kilometer Personal Record: 37:02Seal Beach CA
- (1999 August 14) 10-Mile Personal Record: 1:02:11 Huntington Beach CA
- (1998 November 15) Half Marathon Personal Record: 1:22:14 Irvine CA
- (2000 January 30) Marathon Personal Record: 3:18:50 Huntington Beach CA
- (2005) short runs (less than 1 mile each) in Nike Free 5.0s to evaluate Nike’s attempt at a “Barefoot Shoe”
- (2011) Co-authored “Barefoot Running Step by Step” with Roy M. Wallack
Gallery
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- Ken Bob Saxton 2003 July 5 Chester 4 on the 4th, Middletown Press CN
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- Ken Bob Saxton 2003 May 24 Bayshore Marathon
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- Barefoot Ken Bob (in purple) 2009 November 15 Malibu Marathon CA
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- Barefoot Ken Bob
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