Marathon Weekend: McDougall and Lieberman Session

We headed to Boston this weekend and were lucky enough to get down to Boylston Street on Saturday to see some of the marathon festivities. Oh, and there happened to by an event at City Sports where Christopher McDougall and Prof. Lieberman were leading a talk/clinic/run/FiveFingers extravaganza.

It was a ton of fun and was my first time visiting a brick and mortar City Sports location (I’m an avid online buyer from them). The session was totally laid back, consisted of brief talks by each McDougall and Lieberman, a short barefoot run in the commons, then a Q&A session and book signing.

We also headed over the events center to check out all the vendors for marathon weekend and were excited to see the FiveFingers booth and A TON of action around it.

What’s that photo of VFF Sprints I put into the picture of the booth for FiveFingers? My wife FINALLY caved and bought some at the City Sports event! She even went and logged her first mile the next morning and loved it.

The FiveFingers booth wasn’t selling the shoes, just giving people an opportunity to try them on and get addicted. I kid you not, there was A LOT of action at the booth. I got to check out the Bikila’s, sadly there weren’t any in my size so I have to hold off on the purchase.

Competitor Magazine was at the event and has a great write up here – http://running.competitor.com/2010/04/news/bearfoot-running-hits-boston_9467

Quick Linkage
I got one of these FiveFingered stickers from Justin at BirthDayShoes.com and needed to post a link to his site because it by far has the most extensive information on Vibram FiveFingers.

Check it out and be sure to sign up to his RSS feed if you like what you see. The site is updated all the frikin time and many times with FiveFingers information that you can only find there.