There are some things about these races that differ from conventional events. The course records are a respectable 15:49 and 19:29 for men and women, respectively. “We get a lot of top runners from around Florida” for the run, Williams says. Williams also directs the Streak the Cove 5K in Kissimmee, Florida in September. This year’s race, held in May, attracted a record 312 runners from 25 states. “There’s no question there’s a bucket-list mentality to this,” says Pete Williams, director of the Caliente Bare Dare 5K, at the upscale Caliente Resort in Land O’Lakes, Florida. Most of these runs are held at nudist resorts or on other private property, but they’re increasingly attracting runners with no experience of nudism who want to try something different. “Of course, there’s no razor wire or anything like that to catch on dangly bits,” says Rich Gilbreath, director of the new race, called Mud, Sweat, and Boobs. And what is apparently the first-in-the-nation naked obstacle race debuted in Burlington, Wisconsin, in June. There’s even a National Championship of Nude Running and a 5K Nude Racing Series, consisting of five runs in Texas and Oklahoma, organized by the American Association for Nude Recreation, with another circuit proposed for Florida. More runners are getting up the nerve to run naked, in a growing number of clothing-optional runs-nearly 30 of them, nationwide-that are beginning to emerge from beneath the radar.
But I just kind of got the nerve up and went out and did it.” “There were people there I see at regular races-actual people who I knew. “I didn’t want everyone to see me naked,” says Lasseter, seen above, who ended up winning among the women and who won again the next year.
That’s because the runners in this Florida event compete nude, except for their shoes and the occasional GPS watch. But the first time she entered the Caliente Bare Dare 5K, she hid behind her car until just moments before the start. Like all runners, Whitney Lasseter had often experienced butterflies before races.
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