Return to the Running Lab

I recently had a chance to return to Dr. Irene Davis' biomechanics lab at the University of Delaware. Dr. Davis one of the co-authors of the Nature magazine study on barefoot running, not to mention an honest practicioner of her own advice: over the past few months, she's become a barefoot runner herself. As I describe in "Born to Run," I first visited her lab as a broken-down ex-runner who was trying to figure out why I couldn't seem to put together a few months of easy, recreational...