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Required Reading!

Required Reading!

by Emily Gindle on Sep 25, 2010 3

Have you read Born to Run? If not, you need to find this book immediately. You can borrow my copy, which has a ripped cover and broken binding from overuse (actually you can’t, because I’ve already promised it to a line of folks seven strong). Not only is Christopher McDougall a Fivefinger user and voracious […]

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Walking Softly in Cochise Stronghold

Walking Softly in Cochise Stronghold

by Emily Gindle on Sep 23, 2010 0

There’s something intrinsically powerful about the desert. Things survive here despite the blistering heat, the lack of water, the dusty soil that blows away in storms so thick they look like orange rain. A day lost in the desert will kill you. Still, a number of species grow here that are found nowhere else, and […]

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Five-toed Love Affair

Five-toed Love Affair

by Emily Gindle on Sep 17, 2010 9

My relationship with Vibram Fivefingers plays out like those romantic comedies where the girl is forced by a job or a group of friends to spend time with some guy she finds totally insufferable: at first they ignore each other, then they annoy each other, then they fight (and here my analogy breaks down, because […]

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