My FiveFingers – Vibram, FiveFingers, Toe Shoes, Minimalist Shoes

This is part 4 in a series on transitioning to barefoot running by Christine Skelly.  You can read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 2.5 here, and Part 3 here. The next experience was a few days later, and was equally as impulsive. Being in college, I unfortunately exemplify the student with a strange sleep schedule [...]

This is part 3 in a series on transitioning to barefoot running by Christine Skelly.  You can read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 2.5 here. The Finale? Or the beginning of a new chapter? Both of course. Barefoot running is not for the faint of heart as I stated in my previous post, and [...]

This is part 2.5 in a series on transitioning to barefoot running by Christine Skelly.  You can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. The summer I had my first pair of VFFs, I walked very strangely indeed. With the knowledge that my feet were supposed to land on their pads, I began to walk [...]

This is part 2 in a series on transitioning to barefoot running by Christine Skelly.  You can read Part 1 here. It may be a year ago to the day that I found out about VFFs. I had been participating in a campus-wide “Day without Shoes” which if you do not know about, is promoted [...]

Concrete Shoes (Part 1 of 3) My rocky relationship with running began back in high school (which was not oh so long ago, considering I am only now finishing college) when I ran track team for two years, never to rise to track star fame, but to reside in the wallows of near last place [...]

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The team here at MyFiveFingers.com is proud to announce the second winner of the 2011 monthly FiveFingers give away. Congrats to Cindy Lee! You’ve just won a pair of Vibram FiveFingers. (Cindy, Please email us at info@myfivefingers.com to get the ball rolling.) We’ve reached out to Cindy via Facebook and we’ll be getting her info [...]

As you probably know, we are running a really fun giveaway during 2011 where we are giving away a free pair of FiveFingers each month.  There are a number of different ways you can enter to win (details below), and if you are selected, you get to pick your style and size and they’re shipped [...]

This is a guest post by Derek Garibaldi. Derek reached out to us on Twitter asking for advice and information for competing in his first triathlon, and also wearing FiveFingers for the first time. We thought it’d be a great idea for Derek to write a little bit about himself and what he is trying [...]

Have you ever read T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land? I “read” it in college, which is to say that I ran my eyes over every word several times while nary a one sank in. It’s beautiful certainly, and epic, and travels a long landscape of emotions, but even with a copy of Cliff’s Notes, [...]