Barefoot Running Technology - touch the product in Oxford!
Posted June 10th, 2010 by Anonymous
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As a follow up to the talks, book and hype from Chris McDougall on barefoot running, I have some positive news from Graham, physio and owner of Run Oxford - shops in Little Clarendon Street and Covered Market.
Run Oxford will be stocking some of the range of Terra Plana products including the Evo - with Vivo Barefoot Technology.
See www.terraplana.com for more info or get down to Run Oxford in July, take your Oxford Tri card and he will work out a deal for you. We all know you like a deal! ;-)
Terra Plana Evo
No gimmicks, no fuss, no marketing fluff, it is what it is; a barefoot running shoe that lets your foot move how it is supposed to.
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Alan R
I think these shoes look pretty cheap and rather ugly, but I have read and heard that they are great to run in.I have been previously tempted to buy a pair of Newtons,but I am not a good enough runner yet,so I think I will stick with Nike and Mizuno for the time being.
I though the whole point of running barefoot was to do it *without* shoes.... Although I guess the benefit of a lighter wallet might make you go faster, perhaps??
1. They do look like kitchy slippers
2. These are designed to fill in the void between chunky trainers we are used to and no shoes. flat lightweight and give great feel of the road without the pain of stones et al. however as we all know its a niche market with increasing demand therefore premium or over inflated prices.
3 for a cheap alternative I have been told by some advocates that £5 plimsoles do the job just as well, but with slightly less comfort and durability.
Richard,
At £5 who cares about the durability?
I really recommend going completely barefoot on tarmac or smooth hard surface before you got back to shoes of any sort. 'Transitional' shoes are just a gimmick made up by shoe manufacturers. I have some VFF's but they make it easier for me to go faster and lose sight of the technique I am learning, thus giving me achilles/calf pain. This does not happen when I run completely barefoot (up to 4 miles so far on pavement/road, no injuries, admitedly slower but much lighter and no pain). I have only been running barefoot about 6 weeks and plan to get back to shoes and VFF's for races (especially ones with bits of gravel on the roads!) but until I am sure I have got the barefoot technique right, I am sticking to no-shoes. I have been told it takes an average of 7 months to get back up to 'with shoe' speed, this does not seem too much of a sacrifice to me if it means I can run til I am 85 without injury!