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2012 Pineland Farms Trail Running Festival/ Barefoot Runners Society Meetup

Posted by Jason on Apr 19, 2012 | One Comment

The 2012 Pineland Farms Trail Running Festival is shaping up to be the biggest spring barefoot party in the country! Last year’s event was awesome- two days of running, meeting other barefoot runners, eating great food, listening to great music, and drinking awesome beer! It’s one of the few events we attended that immediately became a “must-do” event.

As such, Shelly and I will be there this year. I talked to Erik Boucher, one of the race directors, and he gave me some tantalizing details for this year’s event, including:

Free beer to all participants and volunteers courtesy Smuttynose Brewing Company on both Saturday and Sunday,
BBQ served both Saturday and Sunday,
Seminars about beer making, yoga (think hot ladies in yoga pants), and good running form (last one taught by me, though I probably won’t be wearing yoga pants)
A ton of race options, from a 5k, barefoot 5k, 5k canicross, 10k, 25k, 50k, and 50 miler. There’s a distance for everyone!
A video contest, which you can vote for here: VIDEO CONTEST You can also check out the videos to get a feel for last year’s event.
Saturday events for the kiddies.
FREE BEER!

The event is also an official Barefoot Runners Society meetup, so you’ll have a chance to meet a ton of barefoot runners from chapters all over the country. We already have a huge group of barefoot runners attending. Here’s our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/events/295621687180745/. If you’re planning on attending, let us know!

Also, check out Krista Cavendar’s sweet-ass shirt many of us will be wearing: