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Lynn's Half-Marathon in Five Finger KSOs

By Justin on Aug 21, 2009 | In vff user stories, photos, kso | 3 feedbacks »

Lynn emailed in about hitting a personal record (PR) on the recent Rock'N'Roll Chicago half-marathon, the first he's completed wearing his Vibram blue camo fivefinger KSOs. Lynn said:

This was my fifth ½ marathon this year and the first in my VFF’s. This was also my PR for this distance. The time for the other four ½ marathons (all in shod) were: 1:52, 1:51, 1:54, 1:57 (run the day after the 1:54 ½ marathon). I ran this one in 1:47 which beat my previous PR for this distance by more than a minute.

This photo was taken around mile 3 which was in the Chicago loop. The last half of the race takes place along the lakefront. The bibs indicate the starting corral you were assigned. I was assigned the 4th corral. The guy behind me was assigned the 3rd corral and I beat him by over 10 minutes (not that I checked).

My DW doesn’t think it’s the VFF’s. She thinks it’s my conditioning. I think my conditioning is because I’ve been converting over to running in the VFF’s for the last four months.

Congratulations on reaching a new PR, and I think I'm going to take your side — it's gotta be the improved running technique afforded by the near-barefoot running of VFFs!

Thanks for sharing!

a message from Justin —

Tags: activities, birthday-shoes-shots, blue-kso, half-marathon, natural running, photos, running, vff-kso
Comment from: seret [Visitor] · http://oboros.wordpress.com
Congratz, Lynn! Great forrm and it looks like you're giving the Thumbs Up!

Also the guy with the heel strike behind you looks pretty jealous about your shoes.
08/21/09 @ 11:04
Comment from: Noah [Visitor]
I am really struggling to just run better in my VFF's. I find after 28 years of running with running shoes my buddy just doesnt want o naturally run on the balls of my feet.
08/29/09 @ 22:56
Comment from: Cam H [Visitor] Email
Just finished the chicago half on Sept 13th with my 5-fingers and was able to finally break into the under 10 minute mile group. They felt GREAT
09/13/09 @ 14:27

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