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BirthdayShoes 5 Toed Fives Barefoot Stickers

Over the course of the past few months, a number of VFF and Birthday Shoes fans have asked if I could create some barefoot or VFF paraphernalia. It is in this spirit, and in a humble request for support for the proprietor of this site (me), that I crea…

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Barefoot Shoes

Merrell Barefoot Road Glove Review

It’s 2012 and Merrell is on round two of their Barefoot line. We’ve previously reviewed their flagship minimalist shoe, the Merrell Barefoot Trail Glove, and since shoe design tends to be iterative, this review is going to be doing some comparisons to the Trail Glove. Also, I’m going to leverage a few barefoot blogging, running friends’ reviews to highlight different perspectives on the Road Glove as a running shoe — so this review is going to be broken up into my assessment of the Merrell Barefoot Road Glove based on it’s new design and barefoot feel/function; then I’m going to dive into some perspectives on it from around the web.

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Spyridon LS Vibram FiveFingers Review

The Vibram FiveFingers Spyridon LS is a new Vibram FiveFingers model specifically built for trail running. It’s named after Spyridon Louis, the Greek shepherd who won the first modern-day marathon in the 1896 Athens Olympics. The course was run on dir…

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Barefoot Shoes

Luna Sandals ATS Review [Huaraches]

Barefoot Ted and Luna Sandals have released another new model adding to their extensive line of huarache sandals. Lunas are sandals inspired by those worn by the Tarahumara featured in Born to Run. The All Terrain Sandal, or ATS for short, adopts many…

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Review: Lems Shoes Primal – A Comfortable, Casual Shoe

Review of the Lems Shoes Primal barefoot shoe.

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Book Review: Run Barefoot Run Healthy

Run Barefoot Run Healthy: Less Pain More Gain for Runners over 30 by Ashish Mukharji is a compilation of hundreds of answers to the questions most often asked on the topic of barefoot running. Ashish makes a strong case for shedding footwear altogether…

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Vibram FiveFingers Trunk Show at Born To Run in Seattle

I found out last Sunday that Born to Run in Seattle Washington was having a Vibram FiveFingers Trunk Show. I promptly dropped what I was doing grabbed my camera and headed down to check out what they had going on.

The Local Vibram representative h…

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2011 Barefoot and Minimalist Holiday Gift Guide

It is that time of year again… got to find gifts for all of your family and friends. Well a few of us here got together and put together our recommendations for this holiday season.

Justin’s Picks:
If you want to give something high quality…

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FLASH SALE: Vibram FiveFingers 50% Off!

This Friday December the 16th LeftLane Sports Is going to have a flash sale on Vibram FiveFingers. In case you don’t know about LeftLane Sports it is a flash sale site similar to Woot! or TheClymb. They offer deep discounts on certain items of which t…

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Running in Stem Natural Origins Shoes and KSOs

This is a user submitted story that was sent to me by a forum member of ours. He wanted to share his experience training for and running in his first race.

First off, I want to say Special thanks to Elizabeth Chauncey of EastCan (www.eastcan.or…