Subject: RE: Turkey Terrors!miche033 - 2007-11-07 3:17 PM Why barefoot running? OK, I *will* go to the pool before going home tonight. Hold me to it. get thee to a pool!  there was a thread recently with an article pasted that posited that shoes cause injuries. 4 major points/datum i thought were interesting: 1) unshod populations (ie primitive peoples that don't wear shoes) have way lower incidences of things like bunions, plantar fascitis, shin splints, whatever. 2) in a survey of i think ~5000 runners at some long course event, the runners with shoes > $95 had more injuries than runners with shoes < $95. 3) if you think about it, a human's foot is supposed to be biomechanically able to handle lots of running and walking. the first shoes were made to protect the soles of feet, and protect only - not to absorb shock. if you put a layer in to absorb shock for your body, your body gets all confused because the signals of what it's supposed to do are all muffled by your fancy shoes. 4) i forgot about this part - some studies have shown that children who go mostly barefoot prior to the age of 6 have fewer foot problems than those who wear shoes all the time. i just read it the other day, i thought it was interesting enough to consider trying barefoot running sometime. a few BTers have finished marathons only wearing water shoes from walmart to protect the soles of their feet from debris. |