Six miles into an 18-mile race along the Pacific Crest Trail in 2010, Kate Clemens felt a sharp pain in her knee. Instead of stopping, the 29-year-old personal trainer from San Francisco took off her shoes and ran barefoot. Without shoes, her knee pain disappeared and she was able to finish the race. “I felt a difference the minute I took my shoes off,” she recalls. “When I’m barefoot, my alignment is better and I run more from my core.”
Clemens is following in the footsteps of the growing number of runners who have been hitting the streets and trails without their sneakers. P
Grabbing an Ashton VSG in NYC with a buddy of mine.
Our goals, wants, desires and needs shouldnt revolve around things. Things are fleeting. As is the happiness they give us. But things are a part of our lives, and sometimes they do make it more enjoyable, even if only for a moment.
I also believe that people who look for and enjoy quality in their lives whether that be in their own careers, relationships, in their giving, and even possessions work harder, and find that quality when others might not care to do the same.
Dean Aversa The Lawler family: (Left to right) Brigid, Bill, Molly and Maggie.
Bill Lawler has made a career working through tough situations.
The Auburn native, a Rochester police officer for 27 years, has negotiated over hostages, worked homicide cases, tracked down sex offenders. Three years ago life threw him his toughest challenge yet. Just 51 then, he began stumbling. He would have a hard time putting thoughts into words. When they came, his words would sound mumbled. Generally very healthy and high-functioning running marathons, teaching at the police academy, briefing the press about a homicide case Lawler was alarmed by what was happening.
Radiation exposure has been in the news lately with the recent events in Japan, making the public more aware of possible radiation hazards from other sources. A study published recently in the Archives of Internal Medicine, meanwhile, included some interesting news about chest X-rays. People with pneumonia who are age 50 younger and don’t smoke don’t necessarily need chest X-rays.
Most medical diagnostic guidelines recommend an X-ray for all patients with pneumonia. This is because a mass (cancer) in the lungs can theoretically obstruct the lungs and cause pneumonia. But a study published in April suggests that these guidelines may be too broad.
The study at the University of Alberta in Edmonton followed about 3,400 patients who were treated for pneumonia in their city between 2000 and 2002.
Hunger. Reincarnation. Yoga. Cooking. Prayer. Restraint. Family. Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice, a new book of insights and meditations by yoga instructor and Oberlin College creative writing professor, Kazim Ali, touches on these parts of the human experience. Writing about the Islam occasion of Ramadan, Ali articulates the process of fasting from dusk to dawn:”Twenty-nine or thirty days to explore the line between the interior of the body and the surrounding world, to think about what is brought to us and what we owe,” he writes. He also compares the process to yoga. Read full article…
Dean Aversa The Lawler family: (Left to right) Brigid, Bill, Molly and Maggie.
Hunger. Reincarnation. Yoga. Cooking. Prayer. Restraint. Family. Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice, a new book of insights and meditations by yoga instructor and Oberlin College creative writing professor, Kazim Ali, touches on these parts of the human experience. Writing about the Islam occasion of Ramadan, Ali articulates the process of fasting from dusk to dawn:”Twenty-nine or thirty days to explore the line between the interior of the body and the surrounding world, to think about what is brought to us and what we owe,” he writes. He also compares the process to yoga.