Running Bare

Every country boy knows that shoes aren't good for you feet and every city boy knows that you can judge a man by his footwear. When we're at home we take our shoes off, cause we're country, but we do put on slipper cause our feet get cold. While the current study in NATURE magazine says when it comes to running, bare is better. It's not the soil that makes treading better it's the way we put our foot down! We thought it was minerals in ground that leeches into your skin and we were sooooo wrong!

“People who don’t wear shoes when they run have an astonishingly different strike,” said Daniel E. Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and co-author of a paper appearing this week in the journal Nature. “By landing on the middle or front of the foot, barefoot runners have almost no impact collision, much less than most shod runners generate when they heel-strike. (Harvard University)

Sometimes initially we're wrong. Sometimes we'll be totally wrong - we allow for that possibility. Always we'll point to other wrong points that help us comprise our incorrect point of view. So when we're wrong we'll show you how we got that way and we'll learn from our mistakes so that we'll try to be less so in the future.

We, the city among us, think the solution to running bare or shod is FiveFinger running shoes or you could just run properly by putting your front or middle part of your foot down first and don't stretch your stride. The choice is yours a seventy-five ($75) dollar purchase or change the way you run.