My FiveFingers

You know how you ­should eat, you know how you should exercise, but like everything in this world, nobody and nothing is perfect. This segment is about imperfection and how to embrace it and change that word into something very useful: versatility. Lean meats, veggies, fruit, no dressing, low fat or no fat, and exercise […]

The title may seem to be a strange question for most bipeds reading these articles looking for advice and rhetoric on shoes made for homo sapiens, but what I mean relates more to the style of VFF you the reader goes for. Are you the kind that uses the shoes as a means of peacocking; […]

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 […]