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Do barefoot runners wear tin foil hats?

February 4, 2010

When you look at many of the websites and blogs that promote barefoot running you cannot help but be left with the impression that running shoes are close to being the source of all evil on this planet. “Global warming can be reversed and world peace achieved if we just stop wearing those damn running […]

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Is the barefoot running movement impacting on the running shoe industry?

January 29, 2010

Off course they are not, but they have deluded themselves into believing that they have. Barefoot runners are an insignificant fringe* minority. The last few running events I have been to, I went out of my way to look for barefoot runners. I found NONE. So, based on my unscientific observation of the 30 000 […]

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Hook, line and sinker!

January 29, 2010

This will have to go down as an all time classic to show just how intellectually challenged the barefoot running movement is. They fell for this study ‘hook, line and sinker’! This is the study in question here: The Effect of Running Shoes on Lower Extremity Joint Torques. It has been widely touted on barefoot […]

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