Malta
2013, May 13th
Simon from Malta sends:
Simon from Malta sends:
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Some great stuff in Malta
Currently run the length of Sliema sea front but below promenade . Below is a stretch of it. Depending on how adventurous will be feeling I head further out towards the sea |
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Iceland
2012, October 14th
The very next day Geir from Iceland wrote to us.
The very next day Geir from Iceland wrote to us.
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Ég er gamall í hettunni þegar kemur að því að hlaupa á steinum. Byrjað sem lítill polli að skokka á steinunum í fjörunni á Ísafirði. Tók smá sprett úti á Granda og á Ægissíðunni í gær. Fór svo að googla og fann þessa síðu. Spurning um að starta smá trendi á Íslandi.
Google translate doesn't do so well with this one. :) I am the guy in the cap when it comes to running on rocks. Started as a small puddle jogging on the rocks on the shore of Isafjordur. Took a little popped out at Grant and Ægissíðunni yesterday. Went to Goog and found this page. Question to start-up a trend in Iceland. |
Australia
2012, October 13th
Today Rock Running gained a whole continent, courtesy of Mitch - his letter below.
Today Rock Running gained a whole continent, courtesy of Mitch - his letter below.
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Wow, I'm really excited to have found you, Lou, Nicholas and anyone else who is a "rock runner". It sounds funny calling it that as I have been running on rocks and rocky riverbeds, granite gorges and other random surfaced routes for years and just thought it was my own warped version of Parkour.
Having just spent some time on rockrunning.com it felt just a bit like coming home. I would like to head up an Australian chapter and champion the sport (let's just start calling it that) in this corner of the world. There are several great spots to run within 200kms of the Gold Coast where I live that I'd like to share on the map too. I look forward to hearing from you. Take care on the rocks mate... |
Letter from South Africa
2012, April 30th
It's really nice getting letters from people who thought no one else does this! I thought the same thing for so long. :)
It's really nice getting letters from people who thought no one else does this! I thought the same thing for so long. :)
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My name is Lou and I am from South-Africa and Afrikaans speaking . I have been running rocks since childhood in the Magalies Mountains in the oldTransvaal Province , which is now Gauteng .
In 1985 I moved to Cape-Town and run my own Guesthouse in the Northern suburbs, 15 km from Cape-Town city centre. I have discovered 3 wonderful spots to do rock running, but nowadays I only concentrate on one location, nl from Llandudno and over the most wonderfull rocks of SandyBay. In all the years I have never come across anybody doiing this , so I always go out all alone , and never injured myself. What I do is a combination of rockrunning and jumping on and over huge boulders and of cource over the crevices between rocks. My age? I am now 70 years old and fully enjoy rock running and cycling long distances. I am sending you a foto of myself, in action, taken 2 weeks ago . I have been pondering on the idea to get a club going and may just go ahead now!! Kind regards from Cape Town, South Africa . Lou |
You can rock run until at least 70, as proven by Lou
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Letter of Belonging
2012, January 15th
It's nice when you find a group of like minded people when you thought you were alone in the world. That's chiefly why this website exists, and its nice to know that people are actually finding the site (even though the scuba-rock runners seem to own YouTube!)
It's nice when you find a group of like minded people when you thought you were alone in the world. That's chiefly why this website exists, and its nice to know that people are actually finding the site (even though the scuba-rock runners seem to own YouTube!)
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Hi,
I found your site while searching around under the heading (rock running) I was looking to see if anyone had identified this activity as anything. "Rock running" is something I have always done and have felt that I in some odd way I excelled in. This of course may be in reference to the fact that there is no one else I know of that participates. I have always lived near a river and have recently decided that although rock running is not a defined sport it is indeed something. And it is something I very much enjoy doing. When I think about it and why I like to do it I can only think that it has something to do with an innate animal predisposition. I find that I don't have to think at all to move fluidly through the rocks and boulders. My eyes and my body's movement communicate without concise effort. I feel completely natural when doing this, it is a first nature activity. I'm glad there are at least four other people in the world that have come to this conclusion as well.May you move effortlessly, Nicholas Lawrence, KS |
New Members!
I'm excited to announce that I'm not the only person in the world doing this! (there is video evidence on the video page). We can now add Hong Kong and Seattle to the list of cities taking part.
For the longest time people would look at me as though I was missing important chromosomes when I told them I did rock running, but I thought, in a world of Parkour, FreeRunning and WingSuit base jumping, there is surely room for this.
For the longest time people would look at me as though I was missing important chromosomes when I told them I did rock running, but I thought, in a world of Parkour, FreeRunning and WingSuit base jumping, there is surely room for this.
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Bruising
2011, September 20th
Here's the problem, when you run on rocks it's a really back idea to land on your arch. My arches are currently bruised :(.
You really have to land on the ball of your foot no matter what angle rock you're landing on, this is particularly hard to do when it's an apex of a rock or a jiggedy jaggedy rock. However, my five finger shoes protect me just enough that it doesn't hurt to land on your arch and so you learn to do it. This is a bad habit and the moment you land too hard on your arch, you almost immediately have to stop as it crumples your foot into a uselessness of swelling and bruising.
Here's the problem, when you run on rocks it's a really back idea to land on your arch. My arches are currently bruised :(.
You really have to land on the ball of your foot no matter what angle rock you're landing on, this is particularly hard to do when it's an apex of a rock or a jiggedy jaggedy rock. However, my five finger shoes protect me just enough that it doesn't hurt to land on your arch and so you learn to do it. This is a bad habit and the moment you land too hard on your arch, you almost immediately have to stop as it crumples your foot into a uselessness of swelling and bruising.
Jiggady Jaggedy
So I figured, I'll take off my five finger shoes and run completely barefoot? Is that madness? These are the rocks I was about to do this on.
Turns out that this indeed made it so painful that I could no longer land on my arch, no matter how softly I landed.
So now pain is telling me the correct way to run on the rocks and I'm heading in the right direction. Always landing on the ball of my foot...
Now my problem is that the calluses on my feet are not tough enough to take this punishment for very long. So I racked my brains of the best ways of increasing my foot toughness and then thought of my dancer friend Rachel.
I wrote her an email describing my dilemma and posted her response below.
Turns out that this indeed made it so painful that I could no longer land on my arch, no matter how softly I landed.
So now pain is telling me the correct way to run on the rocks and I'm heading in the right direction. Always landing on the ball of my foot...
Now my problem is that the calluses on my feet are not tough enough to take this punishment for very long. So I racked my brains of the best ways of increasing my foot toughness and then thought of my dancer friend Rachel.
I wrote her an email describing my dilemma and posted her response below.
Response from Rachel.
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Then later, the following advice:
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First Injury
2011, September 19th
While running at Ontario place, I foolishly decided that leaping onto a smallish rock was ok. I thought "I'll anticipate the wobble and glide over it, hardly touching it at all." Not the case. This rock was wedged between two other rocks that acted as a pivot that made the rock effortlessly spin the moment I put any weight on it. The rock span and as I countered my fall between the rocks I landed somewhat awkwardly on my right index finger, my hip and right foot. All areas sustained light injury. Bruising along the arch of my right foot. Strange sub-muscle pain on my hip - though I don't think this is a joint pain. And an interesting bruise under my nail.
While running at Ontario place, I foolishly decided that leaping onto a smallish rock was ok. I thought "I'll anticipate the wobble and glide over it, hardly touching it at all." Not the case. This rock was wedged between two other rocks that acted as a pivot that made the rock effortlessly spin the moment I put any weight on it. The rock span and as I countered my fall between the rocks I landed somewhat awkwardly on my right index finger, my hip and right foot. All areas sustained light injury. Bruising along the arch of my right foot. Strange sub-muscle pain on my hip - though I don't think this is a joint pain. And an interesting bruise under my nail.
