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How To Play Racquetball. Shaping the Way We Naturally Run: Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, 43, Can Still Clock a 2:34 Marathon « ZERO DROP. Dr. Mark Cucuzzella running pain-free at the JFK 50-miler in 2009. Does Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, 43, ever have time to sleep, take it easy, relax? He’s a highly accomplished marathoner (2:24 PR), race director, family physician, Associate Professor at West Virginia University School of Medicine, Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force Reserves, and owner of Two Rivers Treads, a Center for Natural Running and Walking, in Sheperdstown, West Virginia.

The store opened last May and is the nation’s first retail outlet (it also sells online) aimed specifically for the minimalist and barefoot-running shoe crowd, featuring Newton, Terra Plana, Inov-8, Kigo, Sockwa, as well as low-profile models from Saucony, New Balance, and Brooks. The store also carries healthy, functional children’s shoes from Terra Plana Vivo kids. I have been a runner since age 13 and ran competitively at University of Virginia in the mid-1980s. Dr. I’ve been through the pain cycles in my younger years. Barefoot Running University. Map your runs.