In the midst of much planning this week (an upcoming road race, a possible return tp bicycling to work) I have also taken advantage of the time off this week to do a bit more blog surfing than usual. During a recent spate of clicking and searching, I came across the Nike advertisement above for the NIKE Free sneaker. While I have been to a variety of track clinics and participated in group training runs before, my summer camp dreams have not (yet) been fulfilled to this extreme... yet!
While the commercial itself is (I think?) a spoof, I have indeed heard of a number of 5ks which are intended to be run "au natural." (My filter will not permit me to search under "nude" so you'll have to take my word for it!) With all that is in the news about barefootedness, "going back to nature," and extreme sports, it strikes me that there is likely an excellent story between the connection between nudity and running (or athletics) out there waiting to be written... who knows, Summer Break will be here soon and maybe I can work it into my "topic queue!"
A second little tidbit of interest is that towards the end of the commercial, this year's third place finisher at the Boston Marathon, Karen Goucher (clothed), and her husband Adam (nekkid), appear at the end of the video.
Breathe in, breathe out… YOU AND I ARE ALIVE!
*Please check out Laura's very cool blog A Spring In My Step, where I first came across this video!
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