It was so pretty and artless that she felt like a child again and would have enjoyed running out barefoot to play on the wet grass with all the growing things, but Doaty never permitted bare feet and she was decidedly not a child but une femme d'un certain age.

Barefoot running has been promoted as a means of reducing running related injuries though this position on barefoot running remains controversial and a majority of professionals advocate the wearing of appropriate shoes as the best method for avoiding injury.

* Zola Budd, twice broke the world record in the women's 5000 m, running barefoot

" The ' 60s aesthetic has never really appealed to me, the tie-dyed Deadhead running barefoot through the forest on LSD.

Although already in the book The Zen of Running from 1974 it was recommended to run barefoot and " as undressed as possible " to get " well bathed by sun and air " nude running has never gained wide acceptance.

Microtrauma to the skin ( compression, impact, abrasion ) can also cause increases in a skin's thickness, as seen from the calluses formed from running barefoot.

Nevertheless she fought through the marathon race, finishing 13th, then, the next day, ran the 10, 000 metres, finishing 5th, running barefoot in both races, a feat she later stated she achieved out of a sense of duty to all the people taking her as a bearer of hope in her home country.

It varies significantly and notably between walking and running, and between wearing shoes ( shod ) and not wearing shoes ( barefoot ).

Typically, barefoot walking features heel or midfoot strike, while barefoot running features midfoot or forefoot strike.

In some individuals, the gait is largely unchanged – the leg position and foot position are identical in barefoot and shod running – but the wedge shape of the padding moving the point of impact back from the forefoot to the midfoot.

Oki and his two sidekicks give chase on foot, but Atanarjuat, the fast runner, keeps well ahead of them, running steadily for miles barefoot on the ice.

He began life as a boy running barefoot through fields to carry letters for the Duke of Richmond for a shilling.

The three children in the quiz running barefoot across an inflatable collecting " poo " and depositing it in their tanks at the other end.

" Coining his own variation on the phrase, Eder also claimed the film is " as much fun as running barefoot on Astroturf ".

The numbering system indicates the cushioning of the shoe and follows a scale ranging from 0 ( barefoot ) to 10 ( normal running shoe ), i. e. Free 3. 0 being the least and Free 7. 0 being the most cushioned model so far.

The two became a quick sensation, dressed in animal skins with Bono wearing knee high caveman boots and Cher going barefoot.

The notion of barefoot hordes pushing heavily-loaded bicycles, driving oxcarts, or acting as human pack animals, moving hundreds of tons of supplies in this manner was quickly supplanted by trucks ( especially Soviet, Chinese, or Eastern Bloc models ), which quickly became the main method of supply transportation.

Among the notable national players included Scott McCready, an English wide receiver who played some preseason games for the New England Patriots, the Claymores ' wide receiver Scott Couper, who played a pre-season game for the Chicago Bears, Constantin Ritzmann, a German defensive end who had played for the University of Tennessee, and Rob Hart, an English rugby player who became a placekicker ; he kicked barefoot.

According to the Water Ski Hall of Fame, and witnesses of the event, 17-year-old A. G. Hancock became the first person ever to barefoot water ski in 1947.

She then became Mona, a fan favorite, who wrestled in a blue cocktail dress and barefoot.

China ’ s health policy changed quickly after this speech and in 1968, the barefoot doctors program became integrated into national policy.

The barefoot doctors were given the option to take a national exam, if they passed they became village doctors, if not they would be village health aides.

Wrestling barefoot later became one of her trademarks, as well as her high flying wrestling maneuvers.

Kevin later admitted in an interview that he never set out to wrestle barefoot, but that before one of his matches someone hid his boots as a joke, and he wasn't able to find them before his match, so just went out barefoot to wrestle, and it later became his trademark.

Nevertheless, with the media's help, Lysenko enjoyed the popular image of the " barefoot scientist "— the embodiment of the mythic Soviet peasant genius.

The Festival features a beer tent, bandstand, live music, a popular grape stomping competition among barefoot locals, carnival foods, and fireworks over scenic Maple Lake.

The shoemaking profession makes a number of appearances in popular culture, such as in stories about shoemaker's elves, and the proverb " The shoemaker's children go barefoot ".

While in western popular culture both younger men and women may wear casual leather anklets, they are popular among barefoot women.

The popular modern interpretation specifies that participants wrestle while wearing minimal clothing and usually going barefoot, with the emphasis on presenting an entertaining spectacle as opposed to physically injuring or debilitating the opponent to the point where they are unable to continue the match.

Social touch games in South Africa ( predominantly the single-touch version ) are often played barefoot and as sponsored tournaments at popular seaside holiday sites.

Leg cramps, one person tells me, were relieved by standing barefoot with the weight of the body on the heel and pressing down hard.

There are early literary references in the Quran, circa AD 632, to " war-horses … which strike fire, by dashing their hoofs against the stones …" which, if taken literally, is an effect that would have been obtained by shod horses, as barefoot hooves striking stone do not create sparks.

According to legend, she went barefoot even in winter, and when she was urged by the Bishop of Wrocław to wear shoes, she carried them in her hands.

Two by two they went, barefoot, wearing long dark-red robes and carrying a staff in the hand, the latter having symbolic reference to their pastoral calling, and passed from place to place preaching the sovereignty of God.

* February 8 – Laurence Saunders becomes the second Marian Protestant martyr in England, being led barefoot to his execution by burning at the stake.

The followers of Juan de la Cruz and Teresa de Jesús differentiated themselves from the non-reformed communities by calling themselves the " discalced ", i. e., barefoot, and the others the " calced " Carmelites.

The relics arrived in Paris in August 1239, carried from Venice by two Dominican friars and for the final stage of their journey they were carried by the King himself, barefoot and dressed as a penitent, a scene depicted in the Relics of the Passion window on the south side of the chapel.

Young Josemaría first felt that " he had been chosen for something ", it is reported, when he saw footprints left in the snow by a monk walking barefoot.

Hanson brought awareness to this campaign by asking fans to join them in a 1-mile barefoot walk before each concert, to represent what a typical African child goes through on a daily basis.

In February 1977, he sang Tchaikovsky's Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt barefoot in colorful Caribbean dress while subtitles explained he had just returned from Jamaica where he had picked up a girl by claiming to be Harry Belafonte.

The covenant signed by the men promised they would not rest, and their wives separately agreed that they would go barefoot and in rags to represent the Rātana movement.

Deut 25: 9 Loose his shoe-As a sign of his resignation of all his right to the woman, and to her husband's inheritance: for as the shoe was a sign of one's power and right, Psa 60: 8 108: 9, so the parting with the shoe was a token of the alienation of such right ; and as a note of infamy, to signify that by this disingenuous action he was unworthy to be amongst free-men, and fit to be reduced to the condition of the meanest servants, who used to go barefoot, Isa 20: 2, 4. source

According to legend, she was accused of adultery with Bishop Ælfwine of Winchester, but proved her innocence by walking barefoot unharmed over burning ploughshares.

Because plantar warts are spread by contact with moist walking surfaces, they can be prevented by not walking barefoot in public areas such as showers or communal changing rooms ( wearing flip flops or sandals helps ), not sharing shoes and socks, and avoiding direct contact with warts on other parts of the body or on other people.

The film showed Ančerl conducting a work by Pavel Haas on a wooden pavilion, with flowerpots hiding the fact that many of the orchestra were barefoot.

Below the Distressed statue followed by a large choir of some 250 girls with their faces covered and dressed in black, some still barefoot, screaming ( in harrowing ways ) a typical song, the Stabat Mater.

Throughout the 1950s, additional barefoot starting techniques were invented including the two-ski jump out, the beach start ( invented by Ken Tibado in 1955 ), and the deep water start ( invented by Joe Cash in 1958 ).

The tumble-turn maneuver was ' invented ' by accident during a double barefoot routine in 1960 when Terry Vance fell onto his back during a step-off and partner Don Thomson ( still on his skis ) spun him around forward, enabling Vance to regain a standing posture.

Isaiah walked naked and barefoot to show how the Egyptians and Ethiopians would be treated when taken captive by the Assyrians, while Jeremiah wore a yoke upon his neck to induce the nations to submit to the King of Assyria.