Shoeless Long Island runner has put best foot forward through 6 marathons — shocking everyone from cops to top athletes: ‘Just keep going’

Source: New York Post

It keeps him on his toes. A Long Island ballroom-dance instructor doesn’t know the meaning of de-feet — running six marathons barefoot, including four in New York City. “I do get, periodically, a little shard of glass or something in my foot, and what I say is that that’s what the bib pins are for,” quipped 57-year-old shoeless sensation John Mazzei of Lindenhurst to The Post.