It's funny because if you google barefoot running, you come to find all the angry barefoot runners stopped posting about 2 years ago. Or are they all out training for marathons? I think it might be a fad.
If you think that world class athletes spend a lot of time being educated on the running shoes they use, ***your an idiot***. World class athletes are the best advertising aids that these companies have.
There is research about this stuff, I don't get why people argue. Even Al Sal and Ritz are starting to realize it.
Grammatical errors are only funny when calling someone else's intelligence into question.
Is grammar policing still cool? If so, I am awesome.
It's funny because if you google barefoot running, you come to find all the angry barefoot runners stopped posting about 2 years ago. Or are they all out training for marathons? I think it might be a fad.
I love coming back to the minimalist and barefoot threads now. People went maximalist and are getting faster and faster because they can train more and more.
I fell for the minimalist fad in 2011. Purchased some Altras and some dumb "running" sandals.
Unsurprisingly, I ended up sustaining multiple metatarsal fractures and a separate ankle sprain that required 3 weeks in a fiberglass cast.
It's no wonder that Vibram faced class action litigation. I'm surprised that Altra is still in business. Vibram managed to reinvent themselves as a third-party supplier of trail shoe outsoles for the real running brands. The company's former founder went on to start another stupid company, Vivo Barefoot. Vivo designs flimsy thin soled zero drop vegan friendly "shoes" that are no different than a $10 pair of off brand pool shoes.
I fell for the minimalist fad in 2011. Purchased some Altras and some dumb "running" sandals.
Unsurprisingly, I ended up sustaining multiple metatarsal fractures and a separate ankle sprain that required 3 weeks in a fiberglass cast.
It's no wonder that Vibram faced class action litigation. I'm surprised that Altra is still in business. Vibram managed to reinvent themselves as a third-party supplier of trail shoe outsoles for the real running brands. The company's former founder went on to start another stupid company, Vivo Barefoot. Vivo designs flimsy thin soled zero drop vegan friendly "shoes" that are no different than a $10 pair of off brand pool shoes.
That's how they used to market themselves. Altra rode the coattails of the Born to Run craze. That book ended up being debunked. An investigatory reporter went down to Mexico and interviewed members of the Tarahumara tribe, the people McDougall idolized and they were aghast and bewildered to hear that Americans were intentionally running barefoot or minimalist. To the Tarahumara, this made no sense and struck them as foolish.
If anyone is interested in this topic check out Alex Hutchinson's article, "Reexamining the Mythology of the Tarahumara Runners" on Outside Online's website, dated 25 June 2020.
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