Vibram

Today I'll share a recent discovery with you. Vibrams! Remember I mentioned that Claire has been reading "Born To Run", well chia seeds aren't the only thing that we'll take away from that book. Pardon me, if I digress a little at this point. I have started reading it too, as part of my forbrain training that I'm doing for my speech. This morning I read aloud chapter one, and it's not half bad. I look forward to Claire finishing it. No pressure, but there may well be a sillytrain contest on here in the future, with running as the theme. Back to vibrams: I just think they're great, They look a bit funky, granted, but after the initial attempt to put them on, you'll be hooked, and it gets easier.




I decided to follow Claire into the world of Vibrams after she explained how they made evolutionary sense, from a foot maintenance point of view. Some further digging from myself, lead me to believe that I have a rare chance, while I relearn to walk, to re-learn as nature intended, in other words, without the unnatural support provided by modern running shoes. So, I hope that starting my next phase at running, as a barefooted (that's what we're called) athlete, will mean more speed and less injuries.



They have also received a ringing endorsement from my physio who noted that I was "[cane] walking much better with them", and that was without the dorsiflexion orthosis, that there is no room for, along with my foot, in the vibrams. I can't wait for my first jog with them, and I will enjoy the process of getting to that point, as nature intended.

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