The Barefoot Experiment

I haven’t even purchased anything from them yet, but I already want to tell you about the stellar customer service experience I had with Zappos.com!  Lots of people rave about them and their customer service, and I can see why. I was investigating a new trail shoe on their site, but the problem is that my size has changed quite a bit since I started barefoot and minimalist training. My shoe size has decreased by an entire size in most shoes!  Testament to the power of strengthening your... (more...)

My apologies to regular readers, but The Barefoot Experiment is going to be seeing an abundance of shoe-related posts for a little while. The shoes will always be minimalist running shoes (despite almost falling into a pair of Brooks Cascadia 5 this week – sweet shoe though!), but as I ramp up my mileage while coming back from injury, I’m experimenting with some shoe options to allow me to run while still taking it a bit easy on my tendon. I’ve worked so hard at recovering that... (more...)