The ultimate beginner's running program. Treadmill Pace Conversions. Jogging, Running, Cycling, Walking, Hiking. Fleetly. The Once and Future Way to Run. If everything comes together just right, you’ll be exactly where Larson was one Sunday morning in September: peeking out from behind a tree on Governors Island in New York Harbor, his digital video camera nearly invisible on an ankle-high tripod, as the Second Annual New York City Barefoot Run got under way about a quarter-mile up the road.
Hundreds of runners — men and women, young and old, athletic and not so much so, natives from 11 different countries — came pattering down the asphalt straight toward his viewfinder. About half of them were actually barefoot.