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Anna McNuff had never run a mile without shoes on before. And yet, one British summer, she set off to run a (very) wiggly route from the Shetland Islands to London–on a mission to cover the distance of 100 marathons…in bare feet.

Two million years ago, Africa: A skinny, long-limbed creature who walks on two legs, can’t sprint, and has no weapons turns away from his under-nourished friends, and runs down a much stronger antelope. Dinner. Over succeeding generations, this creature evolves into one of the best distance runners on the planet: the human being. Yet in the age of modernity, we find ourselves unable to run without more than half of us suffering injury. This book looks at the injury epidemic in running and what the barefoot running movement believes are the causes of injury.

Are you frustrated with activities that used to be fun? Is moving getting harder for you every year? Would you enjoy having young people say they wish they had your energy? It can all begin with learning how to use your feet right again! After over 10 years of running barefoot, Laura is more active at the age of 58 than she was in her 20's. She wants to share how this is possible for you.