You can't really beat the new shoe feeling....esp if you didn't pay for them. Yes, I got a nice new pair of Vivo Barefoot Aqua shoes through from the terraplana people. My plan is to try them for running in the hope that they might help my "normal" running and perhaps triathlon racing. It seems that more and more people are using barefoot running to complement their other training. I love their shoes for home/office but didn't fancy messing up my current shoes by running in them.
The black looks a bit formal for a running shoe, in fact they look way more "frumpy" than most of the other stuff in the range. I guess the leather finish is more weather proof than the grey suede that I was expecting. Since we're heading into winter I expect I'll find out. :-(
Irritatingly, I can't really run at the moment since I've got a stinking cold. Hopefully this will pass and I'll get a chance to try them out. I might need to get Ben Cope along to take some pics. He's the same size shoe as me, so perhaps he might try them out and I can get his views? I don't know of a way that I can actually measure any improvement by running in them. I suppose I could get some video of my running gait as it is now, and see if I end up running more on my fore/mid foot as I use them more often?
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