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The Dallas Morning News Arts, Entertainment & Life Section E Tuesday, October 20, 2009

HEALTHY LIVING CONCERT REVIEW

The glory
Good for the long run? of song at
Guadalupe
Runners kick off their shoes to try barefooting Cathedral
By CHRISTY ROBINSON
Special Contributor AT&T fireworks,

I
t felt strange leaving restless audience
behind my cushy Asics mar performance
as I headed out the door
By SCOTT CANTRELL
for a run at White Rock Classical Music Critic
scantrell@dallasnews.com
Lake. Even stranger was
Cape Cod, Mass.,
heading out for a run with no
wouldn’t immediately
shoes at all. come to mind as a hotbed
of high-level choral
If you spend time at the
singing. But the choir
Katy Trail or any other fitness known as Gloriae Dei
hot spot, chances are you’ve Cantores (Singers to the
Glory of God), which is
seen someone padding along based at the Church of the
barefoot or in funny shoes Transfiguration in
Orleans, has toured
resembling foot-gloves. internationally and
Athletic adherents across the recorded two dozen CDs.

globe are increasingly running

barefoot or minimally shod in
races from 5 kilometers to 100
miles. Why would runners
forgo standard running shoes,
engineered over three decades
to stabilize, cushion and
comfort?
I sought answers from barefooters
and tried it myself.
Hamlin Jones offers reassurance to
local runners interested in the trend.
Last year, the marathon coach at
Luke’s Locker in Plano began running
barefoot. Two months ago, he started
wearing Vibram FiveFingers — shoes
that look like fingered socks and offer
some protection.
He once was hoofing it down a
highway when his bare feet caught
some attention.
“A kid said, ‘Hey, you’re not
wearing shoes!’ I said, ‘Hey, you are!’ I
wanted to show that if I can go out
there and do these things, why can’t
other people?”
He says he’s drawn to barefoot
running because it’s a challenge —
something I could relate to. But I had
concerns about my first official
barefoot run. Would people look at me
like I’m crazy? Would I step on
something sharp? Or in something
disgusting?
I sucked it up and began a slow gait
on a paved trail at the lake’s Winfrey
Point. My bare soles sounded like a
cat’s tongue licking a rough surface,
and I was surprised at how
comfortable my form felt. Perhaps
because of some primal body memory,
I naturally struck the pavement
forefoot-first instead of heel-first. This
definitely felt different.
Ted McDonald of Seattle feels the
difference, too. He was approaching
CONCERT REVIEW
What’s missing from this picture? Hint: Check out the feet. Hamlin Jones, 38, runs barefoot with his daughter
Heather, 9, at Warren Sports Complex in Frisco. Jones says running barefoot can be an attention-getter.
40 several years ago, and he’d always
wanted to run a marathon. But not
even the best shoes allowed him to run
for more than an hour without pain.
He had already been hiking
barefoot and decided to try it on a run.
He had an epiphany.
“All the things I thought were
necessary were exactly counter to what
I did need, which was just to learn how
to run correctly,” says McDonald,
who’s widely known as “Barefoot Ted”
among runners. “With the shoe, so
much of running is about cutting off or
disassociating from what you’re
doing.” Barefoot running, he says,
“forces you to be mindful and very
present.”
In February, Josh Stevenson, a
Christchurch, New Zealand,
multisport and adventure racer, was
the first ever to finish the
243-kilometer Speight’s Coast to
Coast race of kayaking, cycling and
road and mountain runs completely
barefoot.
It took five days for his swollen feet
and ankles to recover, and he swore
STEWART F. HOUSE/Special Contributor
he’d never do something that crazy
again. Stevenson went back to running
in shoes — and hated it.
“I believe that in the next five years,
there will be a shift in shoe design to
shoes like Vibram FiveFingers and
that the current shoe designs are
old-school,” he says. “By running
barefoot, I have strengthened the
supporting muscles in my feet and
ankles and my running has improved
out of sight.”
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Plan your life
Repeats 7:30 tonight at St.
Stephen Presbyterian Church,
2700 McPherson, Fort Worth.
Donation. 817-927-8411.
www.gdcchoir.org.
As part of a 10-city U.S.
tour, the group performed
Sunday evening at the
Cathedral Shrine of the
Virgin of Guadalupe.
There was much to admire
in a program of Russian
music, three motets by the
Englishman Edmund
Rubbra and the glorious
Mass for Double Choir by
the Swiss composer Frank
Martin.
Led with strikingly
minimal gestures by
Elizabeth Patterson, the
36-voice group sang with
firm tone, a wide dynamic
range, lovely legato lines
and generous expressivity.
The cathedral provided a
richly reverberant
acoustic, the closest in the
area to the great European
cathedrals for which so
much major choral music
was conceived.
The chorus was at its
considerable best in the
Martin, one of the greatest
20th-century settings of
the Latin Mass. Voice parts
lapped gently at the
beginnings of the Gloria
and Sanctus, but climaxes
stirred up thrilling masses
of sound. In a spectacular-
ly unfortunate mistiming,
though, the adjacent AT&T
Performing Arts Center set
off loud fireworks during
the Benedictus and Agnus
Dei. Groan.
This was a concert with
its share of bad luck.
Parents with babies and
young children who
couldn’t keep quiet
wandered in and out from

Miley sets stage for the all-day Arts District

celebration. The minute
organist James Jordan

post-Hannah career
Teen star’s performance aimed at expanding audience
By MARIO TARRADELL
Music Critic
mtarradell@dallasnews.com
Hannah Montana might
as well be history. The
successful Disney Channel
series has one more season to
go, but Miley Cyrus has
already moved on.
Her concert performance
before a sold-out crowd
Sunday night at American
Airlines Center was a
showcase for Miley Cyrus the
singer, actress and
_ . . . . . . . .
entertainer, not the TV star.
She clearly has much bigger
endeavors in mind.
It’s telling that the bulk of
the material making up her
80-minute set came from
2007’s Meet Miley Cyrus,
2008’s Breakout and the
new EP, The Time of Our
Lives. It’s also notable that
she showed the audience the
trailer for The Last Song, her
2010 coming-of-age film,
and then sang a piano ballad
from the movie.
Cyrus, 16, is in that
awkward teenager-to-adult
phase. She’s trying to figure
out how to hold on to those
tween and teen fans, who
showed up in mass
quantities at the show, while
attempting to grow up
artistically and personally.
Nothing she did on that
platform should stir up
controversy, but she’s not a
kid anymore.
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started to play the Bach
C-major Toccata, half the
audience stood up and
started talking.
After two warmly
molded movements from
Tchaikovsky’s Liturgy of St.
John Chrysostom, the
choir’s intonation drifted
in two movements from
Rachmaninoff’s All-Night
Vigil. And neither the
six-movement Ineffable
Mystery by Russian
composer Georgy Sviridov
nor three Tenebrae motets
by Rubbra struck me as
music of great interest.
The Rubbra’s odd
JOHN F. RHODES/Staff Photographer progressions also needed
Nothing she did at American Airlines Center should stir more absolutely precise
up controversy, but Miley Cyrus is clearly growing up. tuning.

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Is barefooting a good move for you?

Continued from Page 1E
Medical views
Some studies show benefits to
barefoot running, but none compares
them to the benefits of wearing shoes,
says Dr. Michael D. VanPelt,
podiatrist and professor of foot and
ankle surgery at UT Southwestern
Medical Center.
“I don’t think there’s a downside to
it, other than it should be left for
experienced runners, not for novice
runners,” he says.
Austin ultra runner Josué
Stephens spent time as a young child
with the Tarahumara Indians of
Northern Mexico, who are known for
their long-distance running prowess.
They run barefoot or in homemade
huarache sandals, which provide
some protection from the elements
but little support or cushion.
Stephens says that “the entire
running scene” has been exposed to
the tribe because of the book Born to
Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes,
and the Greatest Race the World Has
Never Seen, by Christopher
McDougall (Knopf, $24.95).
Emulating them, he has run 10Ks
barefoot and 50K races in a pair of
FiveFingers. But VanPelt advises
starting off gradually on a track,
treadmill or dirt path to minimize the
chance of punctures, blisters or other
injuries.
“Some people compare barefoot
tribes to us, but in America we’re a
little more high-maintenance. They
Hamlin Jones, 38, of Frisco says he is drawn to the challenge of
barefoot running.
grow up barefoot, so they’re used to
that.”
McDonald believes that everyone
has inherited the capacity to run
barefoot.
“It’s partly because of marketing
and the money being made that has
caused us to think we were born
broken. In reality, the foot is a
miraculous, powerful tool we’ve been
given,” he said. “We like to buy our
solutions, and so much of
running-shoe technology has been
feeding on that desire.”
What’s it like?
I tested my own bare feet on a
sampling of surfaces. I ran up and
down a hill with a dirt trail, surprised
at how easy it was to avoid stepping on
rocks. An untended, gravelly side
street was completely undoable, and
the top layer of silt on a softball field’s
red dirt felt like running on up-ended
thumbtacks. No thanks.
I finally found my barefoot thrill in
a field of wild, knee-high grass. If there
were any hazards to avoid, I couldn’t
see them. What could I do? I threw
caution to the wind and ran as fast as I
could. I thought of childhood.
“I remember feeling so free as a
child, running around completely
barefoot in the woods, in the streets,
playing soccer, climbing trees. I feel
very similar when I run barefoot,”
Stephens says. “You won’t know that
feeling until you try it.”
Christy Robinson is a freelance
writer in Dallas. She blogs at
runnerish.blogspot.com.
Jones occasionally
wears lightweight
FiveFingers shoes
by Vibram.
Photos by STEWART F. HOUSE/Special Contributor
ARE YOU READY FOR BAREFOOT RUNNING?
Dr. Michael D. VanPelt of UT Southwestern Medical Center suggests that only
runners with an established routine take shoeless runs. Even competitive athletes
start off gradually. Here’s their advice for beginners.
Josh Stevenson, adventure racer:
“First, I have to point out that I planned and prepared for eight months before race
day came around. Don’t rush into it.”
❧ Seek medical advice on any physical issues you have.
❧ Take short walks first.
❧ Add distance over time, then build up to running.
Josué Stephens, ultra runner:
“The first time I ran barefoot, I got too excited and ran 15 miles on pavement. I
bruised my forefoot so bad I didn’t run for two weeks.”
❧ Run on a soft surface at first, like a golf course, no more than one to two miles.
❧ Avoid running fast and landing on your heels.
❧ Focus on your form and on feeling the ground underneath you.
“Barefoot Ted” McDonald, ultra runner and coach:
“The biggest beginner mistake: exuberance. This is orchard-growing, not fast
food.”
❧ Start gradually on hard surfaces such as pavement so you learn to feel the
ground before taking on rougher, uneven surfaces.

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