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El Hayani, 27, has been a runner since he was 14 years old. He tried running with shoes at first, but quickly opted to run barefoot; he and his friends always played barefoot in his home country of Spain, and the sensation of his feet confined in shoes wasn’t pleasant to him.
Since then, he’s been running barefoot, even as he’s moved to colder parts of the world. He continued to run barefoot
Even when El Hayani moved to Quebec a few years ago, he continued to run barefoot in the cold. At first, he could run for 10 minutes before it became too cold, but he adapted.
The team of women, all of whom are marathoners, is sponsored by Brooks Running, and each athlete will receive Brooks team gear and shoes, and have incentive bonuses in their contracts along with a travel budget. De La Cruz, Guerra, and Gonzales are coached by De La Cruz’s husband, Andres; while Sanchez and Graham-Zamudio will continue to work with their current coaches. All will continue to work full-time jobs on top of competing at an elite level.
“I’ve had this idea for years but was scared because I didn’t know how to start it,” De La Cruz, 31, a 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier with a PR of 2:41:16, told
On February 1, Meyer began his month-long journey, traveling across the northern section of Mississippi with a photographer, a documentary maker, and one other crew member on an e-bike and the rest in a chase car. He started on the Alabama-Mississippi border at Interstate 22, and ran west toward Hughes, Arkansas, averaging about 10K a day over roughly 170 miles. The low daily mileage was purposeful; his goal was not only to run to raise money, but also to have conversations along the way with people who did and did not identify as LGBTQ+.
And those conversations, good and bad, began from the beginning. Wearing conspicuous outfits such as a unicorn costume and a rainbow tutu, and dressing like state hero, Elvis Presley, it was easy to start up chats about his run. Some people welcomed him. Others offered grimaces, grunts, and what seemed like backhanded messages, “Well y’all be safe now,” almost as if it were a warning. That was heard repeatedly and was ever-present in his min
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In October, we watched as Des Linden hit her highest mileage ever during her “Destober” challenge running daily miles that corresponded with the calendar date. In total she ran 496 miles, including 196 the final week.
Now, the 2018 Boston Marathon champion is formally entering the ultramarathon world by attempting to capture the 50K world record 31.1 miles of 3:07:20, which Great Britain’s Aly Dixon set in 2019.
“During the pandemic, I think the biggest thing I figured out was just to find ways to make running fun and interesting and fresh and new” Linden told
Runner’s World. “Destober was a lot of fun. It was just about going out and loving the run, and also connecting with people. But I feel like I learned a lot about myself, and the ultra world is always something Ryan [Linden, Des’s husband] and I have kicked around.”