Jogging and Running Shoes
I was kind of amazed to see that Vibram Company that made a version of running shoes that look like gloves for your feet set aside money to refund the purchase price for dissatisfied customers.
I was a jogger, I've run lots of 10ks, 5ks, a few 15ks, and the Orange Bowl Marathon. At 63 years old my knees aren't doing the best and just about all my jogging buddies have moved on to riding bicycles.
I've read all the books about running. The Complete Book of Running by Jim Fixx and This Running Life, by George Sheehan and lately, Born to Run by Christopher McDougall all have popularized running and McDougall's book was the touchstone for running as close to barefoot as possible.
Runners, that run a lot, spend a great deal of money on shoes and I'm sure some that read Born to Run tried what has been called shoe condoms. I imagine that if I was younger and still running I might have tried these shoes and maybe put them into the shoe rotation, as a change, or maybe to get a different kind of workout.
The whole running thing is individual. If the shoes didn't work, throw them out. Too much of anything can be bad for your health, who knows?
And then there was the Hawthorne Experiment.
I was a jogger, I've run lots of 10ks, 5ks, a few 15ks, and the Orange Bowl Marathon. At 63 years old my knees aren't doing the best and just about all my jogging buddies have moved on to riding bicycles.
I've read all the books about running. The Complete Book of Running by Jim Fixx and This Running Life, by George Sheehan and lately, Born to Run by Christopher McDougall all have popularized running and McDougall's book was the touchstone for running as close to barefoot as possible.
Runners, that run a lot, spend a great deal of money on shoes and I'm sure some that read Born to Run tried what has been called shoe condoms. I imagine that if I was younger and still running I might have tried these shoes and maybe put them into the shoe rotation, as a change, or maybe to get a different kind of workout.
The whole running thing is individual. If the shoes didn't work, throw them out. Too much of anything can be bad for your health, who knows?
And then there was the Hawthorne Experiment.
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