give barefoot running a go! Bravo to the youth of Brighton & Hove! There were also a number of fellow runners from my old run club, The Run Squad, who came along and kicked off a few of their shoes too. There were some amazing runners there on the day with some pretty quick times (Michael and Amit to name just a couple). But there was a pair of kids who really were amazing Arthur Louw (8) who is a pure barefoot runner and even teaches adults from time to time, and his incredibly quick
sister Lydia Louw (10) who won the women’s mile race then came first for the 5K too! These two were really something and I hope to be able to interview them soon to find out more about their incredible lives – believe me, after speaking to their father Len for a short amount of time I knew this family were special. So watch this space! After the races we were lucky enough to have in attendence the secretary of the UK chapter of the Barefoot Runners Society, Paul Beales, with his
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lovely family, who put on a Trail Ball tournament! It really was a day of family fun! We all loved being able to try out a new sport; however I think Paul’s son Jonty was a ‘ringer’ - he was especially good and I suspect Paul had been training him up, ha ha ha! The boy’s definitely got a future there. A very special mention also has to go to the amazing Margaret Sinclair, without whose sanity and calmness, the Brighton Barefoot would have been a far more chaotic event!
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