Welcome To Natural Running!

List of articles, interviews and appearances in the media

Print Media – Newspapers/magazines/journals

Stand Corrected (Murphy's Lore) - Runner's World, December 2011

Foot loose (Health page) - Hello magazine, 8 August 2011

Bare feet belong on the ground – Karl Steel, NW Evening Mail, 7 July 2010

John does run in bare feet – David Pickthall, NW Evening Mail, 8 June 2010

The world's original trainers – Helena Pozniak, The Time (Body & Soul), 2 March 2010

Natural Born Runners - Helena Pozniak, Bodyfit.  download here and again.

Running Barefoot – Bare your Sole – Sam Murphy, Observer Sunday 7 February 2010

Westmorland Gazette, 5 February 2010

Bare your sole – Sam Murphy, Observer Sport Monthly, Feb 2010, No 119. 

Kick off your shoes – Nik Cook, Ultra Fit vol 19, No.8, November 2009. download here

Can barefoot running keep me injury-free? - Phil Mosley, Triathlon Plus, December 2009.

Trainers: Are they a waste of money? - Sam Murphy, Easy Living, September 2009

 Pursuits: The things we long to do: Sam Murphy runs barefoot – Sam Murphy, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, June 7/8 2008.

 Training Feet First – Sam Shephard, Sport (www.myfreesport) 15 February 2008, No.63.

 Freedom Runner – Optima Magazine, 2 February 2008, No. 387.

Bare-foot runner pulls off new feat - Westmorland Gazette, 5 October 2007.

 John's feet are his bare necessity - Susan Goodson, North West Evening Mail, 5 October 2006. Report of a Crossing the Line course.

 Body and Sole - Tony Durrant, The Telegraph, 7 March 2006. Article about the Natural Running Course in May 2005 at Fawcett Mill Fields, Cumbria by a journalist who attended the course.

 Television

John Woodward featured on the BBC – 15 November 2007

 Radio Interviews

Radio 5 Live Midday News, 13/11/07
Radio Lancashire Breakfast Programme, 15/11/07
Radio Cumbria, 15/11/07
Radio Newcastle Breakfast Show, 15/11/07

On-line Podcast

18 August 2009, RRT43, Barefoot Running with John Woodward and Chris McDougall

Runners Round Table, www.runnersroundtablepodcast.blogspot.com/2009/08/rrt43-barefoot-running.html