Barefoot Running

[NbyNW]

Look at your foot. It is an amazingly beautiful thing. Flexible and irregular to interact elegantly with irregular surfaces. In one split second it is soft and molds itself around the surface it lands on, in the next split second it is a rigid lever and pushes off that same surface. All those little muscles let the foot change its shape so one step it is domed up over a sharp rock and the next step it is sagged down into a hole in the path, constantly interacting and adapting to the changing world so your legs can do their work.

Knott, I love your description of functional feet! Somewhere in there is an idea for another shoe

[jessmarimba]

Had a chat with my back PT person today and she thinks I'm not going to be able to go the barefoot route. She says minimalist (in the sense of lesser heel cushioning) is fine but I need orthotics. So...wah. One of my ankles rolls in terribly and I was hoping I'd be able to fix it but I guess it's not happening. (It's sort of been that way since I learned how to walk.)

[Jolt]

Here's an article about what the military thinks about VFFs:

http://www.armytimes.com/offduty/hea...eshoes_101110/