A couple days before International Barefoot Running Day (IBRD) 2013 May 7 Sunday, I contacted all of my local friends by email or text to remind/let them about IBRD Sunday morning.
At 60F, (16C) this probably is the coldest Southern California IBRD ever (previous years were usually up to about 90 degrees, which is a bit higher than normal at Sunset Beach)
Both of my friends showed up! Okay, just kidding. Cat showed up, and Jose, who Cat invited, also showed up. So with Kay (Husky) and I, there were four of us and about 10 bare feet (Kay is a dog with four bare feet).
I gave Jose a copy of my book, and he told me he was writing his own book about barefoot running too. He asked me how long it took to complete my book. Well… Essentially it took about 13 years or so. Let me see, I started the Barefoot Running website (Running Barefoot at that time) in 1997. Writing my thoughts over the years. A publisher contacted author and friend, Roy M. Wallack to write a book detailing how to run barefoot (due to the new-found popularity of Barefoot Running thanks to Chris McDougall’s book, “Born to Run“). Roy contacted me a day before Cathy and I started our big 2010 road trip holding Ken Bob’s Running Barefoot Play-Fun-Shops in 30+ cities. Thanks to Roy’s writing and organizational skills he pulled together all my random thoughts from the website, from my mind, and from the minds of people at the 30+ gatherings across the United States of America – including at stop to talk with the Barefoot Doc, Daniel Lieberman in his Barefoot Running Lair at Harvard… Well that’s what I’m calling it.
So we finished late 2010, with some minor editing early 2011 and Barefoot Running Step by Step was finally published in 2011 in April (I think).
Anyway, despite the dream I had the night before, where the tide was high, the beach littered with driftwood, and most importantly, I forgot to bring Kay (Husky), we had a nice run on the beach at low-tide, admiring many of the shells and sand dollars (by the way, it turns out, according to Cat, you cannot buy ice cream with sand dollars).
We made it all the way to the blarney stones (moss-covered rocks making up the break-water before the harbor entrance) and did the obligatory touch of the stones, while Kay relieved himself on the stones (not the same spot we touched). Then we ran back for a total of about 2 miles. Jose and Cat continued running as they wanted to finish at least 3 miles running.
Jose, Cat, Kay, Ken Bob on the Greenbelt, Sunset Beach 
Jose, Cat, Ken Bob… a bit fuzzy after running 
Sand dollar on the beach 
Kay dancing on the beach 
Cat (distracted by flotsam on the beach), Jose, and Kay’s fluffy tail 
Kay happily running on the beach 
Jose and Cat
