This morning I saw a guy running in those weird barefoot running shoes. The guy looked super uncomfortable and sort of like a duck. Flat-footed. Or like he was wearing flippers. (Flippers? Those things scuba divers wear on their feet are flippers, right?)
You know, these things.
Googling…Vibram Five Fingers shoes. They look ridiculous and uncomfortable, and while I understand the idea behind the whole back-to-nature thing, I’m totally okay with the engineering that brought me my running shoes. While I was googling these, I found a bunch of websites about running barefoot for real, no shoes at all, with or without toes. (With or without toes on the shoes, I mean. The people running barefoot have toes. I assume. Maybe some of them don’t. I shouldn’t make that assumption.) CRAZY. Hot pavement, rocks, broken glass, HARD pavement – not for me. If I could arrange to do all my running on nicely mowed grassy lawns, I might consider doing it barefoot. Anything else? No way.
Hi, I'm Natalie.
I’m told that these things are so popular that they’ve sold out at MEC. Weird.
tokenblogger
My friend, John, is finding these quite satisfactory. http://thegreatmagneticfield.blogspot.com
Curiosity
I have NEVER SEEN THOSE. And however effective they may be, I have to say that on first glance, those are totally strange.
Zannah
It’s just so weird!
Corey
your Gainesville cousins swear by them. they freak me out, though. don’t think i could get used to looking down and seeing those on my feet. i think they would make me feel like an ape.
Jessica
If they were flesh-colored and hairy, you could pretend you have hobbit feet.
Jessica
Not sure why you’d want to, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
Norma C. Roberts
This footwear is really nice and very light that seems that you wore no footwear at all! As in, it’s like that you are walking in barefooted.
Suevonne
What a pleasure to find someone who idenitfies the issues so clearly