fuck shoes, or: how i learned to stop worrying and love my vibram fivefingers

money, meet mouth.

i read this. although it is full of really bad logic and falsely drawn conclusions, it does make at least one cogent point: 30+ years of running shoe technology and we're still getting injured. 30+ years later and i still hate my fucking running shoes.

so i went for my second "barefoot" run in my fivefingers. i did my first just after i got them, many months ago. at that time, i didn't much like it -- but now, after many months of walking on them, and a couple weeks of "getting back into running" and focusing on eliminating my heel-strike, i felt pretty good.

i didn't run far, but i ran a little father than run #1 in my 5fs. my shins hurt, as they're wont to do when i don't run with superfeet. and i was slow. and i didn't go far.

but it felt good. my shins got tight but my feet didn't hurt (though the toes were getting a little burnt from the hot asphalt!!). lately i've been running much shorter distances than i was running on my last bout. so shoehorning my 5fs into my routine should not be such a big problem.