Comments on: What’s in a Shoe?

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:01:55 +0000

Three guys were supposed to run the half marathon I did over the weekend barefoot. I never found out their results, but that’s just crazy. I can’t imagine doing that.

By: Nitmos

Nitmos — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:23:05 +0000

I’ll continue to take a nice comfy pair of shoes thank you very much.

The real question, of course, is what shoe??

By: MizFit

MizFit — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:35:40 +0000

how sweet are you?!

Im working ahead as Ive so many balls (alas not BOSU. still caint afford one!) in the air.

first Im yammering about BALANCE, CIRCUIT TRAINING, MID YEAR CHECK IN ON GOALS and *then* barefoot running

have you checked out the vibram?

By: Jess

Jess — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:29:18 +0000

Barefoot running is for hippies.

Kidding.

Kind of.

By: Kaeti

Kaeti — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:01:02 +0000

Sagan: I wish I had a pristine beach nearby to try out some barefoot running! I may have to settle for a relatively clean high school track.

By: Sagan

Sagan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:46:51 +0000

There are so many badly made shoes out there it’s ridiculous. The Zulu are in magnificent shape and they’ve always been barefoot! I like the idea of running barefoot (although, the unfortunate thing is that there’s so much garbage on the ground that you wouldn’t really want to run around barefoot much outside, in most places…), even though I train with shoes myself.

But it totally makes sense- one of the best ways to train for running is to run barefoot in sand (beaches!).

MizFit, I want to read your article!

By: Kaeti

Kaeti — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:46:10 +0000

marcy: I’m definitely tempted. Maybe run a couple days in the Nike Frees, and a couple in the regular shoes?

MizFit: So when do I get to read it?? In my book, you totally trump NY mag.

By: MizFit

MizFit — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:39:28 +0000

I actually just wrote an article on this (THANK GOODNESS IT WAS SUBMITTED BEFORE THIS ONE CAME OUT. sigh. although mightcould I pretend I trumped ny mag?) although sans VERY COOL pics of feet painted with shoes

I actually buy into it all.

and literally.

i ran (ha ha. dont forget to tip yer waitress Ill be here all week) out and bought a pair of the vibram 5 fingers which are GREAT!

By: marcy

marcy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:55:19 +0000

You could try the Nike Free line. They’re supposed to be as close to running barefoot as you can get but still wearing sneakers LOL