Back on October 6, I along with some friends, participated in my first naked run: the Bluebonnet Bare As You Dare 5K. It was a load of fun, and we all had a great time. The weather was ideal – a little cloudy, but warm – and the atmosphere was extremely friendly (but not in that kind of way). Everyone was there to run naked through the trails, and enjoy some time after the race relaxing in the pool or hot tub.

125 runners had registered for the race, and 108 actually crossed the finish line (the image is of me crossing the line). I did better than I expected for my time (39:04 mins), especially given the trail we were running. It was cross country, and quite a few hills. Thankfully most of the trail had been graded for the run, so it was less troublesome than the “practice run” I had done a couple of weeks before.

Bluebonnet is a great venue, and I think I’m going to be spending more and more time up that way in the new year. I’ve already signed up for the first race in the series in April!

Naturism

I’ve learned a very interesting thing about people recently, they love the taboo issues. I am not really surprised by this revelation, nor shocked by my realization of this well known fact. I think what fascinates me more is the trigger that made me more aware of this little piece of reality.

Let’s go back a week or so. I was sitting at home, and decided to research some groups on Facebook relating to naturism (or nudism). As happens when you find a group that you are interested in, you click on the “join this group” button, and then you look over the group, and see what other groups are related to this one. You visit the next one, you like, and you click on the “join this group” button … so on and so forth. As you add these groups to your Facebook profile, Facebooks reports these to your friends through mini-feeds.

It appears that my adding of these groups was the one thing that was not only noticed by my Facebook friends, they reacted. What surprised me by the activity that was generated from my group jumping and joining, was that I’ve done this before … only with other subject matter (e.g. gay groups, same-sex marriage groups, VT tragedy groups). Nothing has received the level of interest from my friends more than joining nudism groups.

So before I go on any further, let me say “I’m a naturist (nudist).” There it’s been said and blogged!
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Naturism