The Naked Tour 2011

As naked as you want to be, from the ankle down.

Veronica alerted me to this opportunity just the other day. Christopher McDougall is doing a promotional tour for the release of Born To Run in paper back, The Naked Tour 2011.

You weren’t born broken.

Running isn’t a perilous punishment-for-pizza.

Everything you need, you had the day you were born.

That’s the inspiration behind The Naked Tour, a nationwide celebration of running’s bare essentials to coincide with the paperback release of Born to Run.

Chris will be touring with the likes of Scott Jurek (AWESOME! Ultra runner superman...), Lee Saxby (expert barefoot coach), Eric Orton (Chris' coach from Born to Run), Dr. Daniel Lieberman and Dr. Irene Davis (experts in 'natural running'), Luis “El Coyote” Escobar (ultra running photographer, also in Born to Run), and more.

The tour starts today in Boise Idaho, making multiple stops around the country, before making it to my backyard in Miami on April 30th (work schedule has already been rearranged to accommodate...) Each stop will offer a slightly different program, but sounds like a can't be missed opportunity. It looks like Miami's stop will be a little abbreviated, only boasting the naked run and a talk/book signing, but I'm still hoping Jurek stops by!

If you get a chance catch the tour at one of these locations:

• April 7, 2011 – Boise, ID
• April 8-9, 2011 – San Francisco, CA
• April 10, 2011 – Los Angeles, CA
• April 15, 2011 – Cambridge, MA
• April 16, 2011 – Boston, MA
• April 26, 2011 – Fairhope, AL
• April 27, 2011 – Hattiesburg, MS
• April 29, 2011 – Asheville, NC
• April 30, 2011 – Miami, FL
• May 1, 2011 – Boulder, CO
• May 3, 2011 – Salt Lake City, UT
• June 4, 2011 – Wayzata/Long Lake, MN
• June 10 & 11, 2011 – New York, NY

For more information check out the Naked Tour 2011 website:  http://www.chrismcdougall.com/blog/naked-tour/