Name: Talks@Google。はだしのテッド・マクドナルド (Talks@Google: Barefoot Ted McDonald)
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TED McDONALD: So I just got done having an excellent lunch here, per usual, um, some

I'm telling you guys have it made when it comes to food.

So thank you Google for a terrific lunch.

Those of you can see me closely see that I'm sporting a black eye today.

I have two Siberian huskies who I'm trying to train to not want to chase squirrels.

And it's not easy to do because something runs quickly by you -- I run a lot in Volunteer

Park -- and you have two dogs that I often run with a tether on, so I'm not holding them

And usually, we're in like this really fluid, moving great together.

And I can use voice commands and I can --  I kind of have various ways to keep them

doing -- we're all kind of a pack and I'm sort of the alpha, at least that's what I'm

And some squirrels or a squirrel went by in a somewhat narrow path and suddenly I found

So I have a black eye and a hurt shoulder but other than that I think I'm okay.

I actually did this the day before -- I gave a talk last week at the Pacific Lutheran University's

-- they had a international symposium on sport and recreation.

And I didn't realize I was getting a black eye.

I guess it -- it happened the day before and I guess -- well, I guess some of you have

I guess it doesn't just like suddenly you have a black eye.

So I was, like, didn't really know I had a black eye, but everybody was looking at me

I thought just like, gee, I guess I must look really funny.

I mean, that's probably true, too, but nonetheless that's the story on that.

Anyway, I don't know how many of you know me from reading the book 'Born to Run' or

having checked out my blog, Barefoot Ted's Adventures, but I'll tell you it's been an

incredible experience to have become sort of a person who my own personal journey to

find a way to run joyfully to sort of do things that I sort of didn't think I was ever going

to be able to do, and then sort of put my mind to it.

And start really investigating what it means to be able to run and whether or not this

is something I was going to be able to do in my life for longer than an hour without

pain led to me where I am talking to you today.

And the story goes like this: When I was a younger person, I remember there was a --

my family ran the Santa Monica Pier carousel in Santa Monica.

I'm kind of from a carousel family, if you can imagine that.

But the son of Alan Cranston, who was a famous California senator, was having his 40th birthday

party at the carousel, and he was going to run his first marathon.

And I thought, my goodness, 40-year old running a marathon.

I was just so intrigued that somebody that old -- I think I was 20 at the time -- would

And I got to know him and I was sort of intrigued.

And he really had a successful run, and he was talking about how great it was and kind

of sharing with me his experience as a runner.

And I -- in the back of my mind, I sort of filed something there that, perhaps when I

was going to be turning 40, I think that I might try to make that attempt at a marathon.

So anyway, about seven years ago, my 40th birthday was coming – was going to be coming

up, and I thought, well, now's the time to give it a try.

So I'd done a little running here and there.

I ran, you know, some in high school and while I was -- I remember the first thing I did

after graduating from UC Berkley, I was studying Japanese and Rhetoric -- the first thing I

did after I got out was I started running again.

And I thought -- it seemed so enjoyable to suddenly start being able to put energy into

something that was so pure and -- but I could never, I really could never get more than

a hour where I would be in so much pain, basically.

And I tried different shoes, I tried all kinds of different things.

And I sort of gave it up for awhile and went to bicycling.

And anyway, my 40th birthday was looming about seven years ago, and I decided, well, I'm

going to make one more effort to crack this nut of long distance running.

There's got to be now some technological solution to this problem, and so I started Googling

And it's -- it's a company out of Switzerland called Kangoo Jumps – I believe is the name

-- or Kangoo Boots and they literally make a boot-like footwear that has a, kind of like

And you put these on and you can literally bounce.

I mean you can bounce around the -- and I thought yes.

And they had like a, you know, they had sort of testimonials and various people who had

tried, you know, people that had various problems with impact and they had gotten these shoes.

And I think they had evidence showing that this shoe was the most impact-resisting shoe

And I -- right away e-mailed them and I --  they told me, oh, it's a great timing.

We're having this newest version of the shoe coming out that's even got more spring.

And I was going to have to like wait like a month.

I was just -- whenever you have to wait for something it's just like building up the intensity

And I was just imagining myself sort of bouncing through the foothills and just -- I was going

to be coming a living embodiment of Tigger.

I had like -- I'm built so strong, I've got strong legs and I'm strong.

And I thought if with regular running shoes I could do an hour without pain, and for me

I was always assuming that marathon runners and long distance runners, those guys it's

That's what I assumed, based on my experience.

So I thought if I could go on hour with the best running shoes, I figured I'm going to

be able to do like two hours like right away, like first day.

So anyway, long story short my Kangoo Jumps came and I put my Kangoo Jumps on, so damn

excited and I was bouncing around the yard.

And instead of one hour where I was in my case kind of lower back pain, 15 minutes later,

I'm feeling the same problems, the tightness in the legs and the various other things.

And I was just like, oh my gosh, you know.

It was just like you got to be kidding me.

I took the dial, turned to 11, 11 didn't work.

And I don't know about you guys but I'm one of these kind of problem solvers that I like

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