Matt Runs a Thanksgiving 5K in his Flow VFFs

By Justin Owings on Dec 1, 2009 | In User Stories | 4 comments »

Matt gets ready to race a 5K in his black Flow Five Fingers on Thanksgiving morning.
Matt gets ready to race a 5K in his black Flow Five Fingers on Thanksgiving morning.
Looks like it was a foggy morning in Shelby, North Carolina!
Looks like it was a foggy morning in Shelby, North Carolina!

Matt emailed in the above photos taken this past Thursday morning: he ran a 5K in his Flow Five Fingers. Here's Matt:

Hey!!!

I ran a 5K in my VFF Flows on Thanksgiving morning in Shelby, North Carolina. Out of over 600 participants, I was the only one in VFFs! These pictures were taken by my mom and sister at the race. Finished with a decent time and had a great time running with everyone else in their sneakers!! Love these shoes for cold-weather running and I have a pair of Sprints for warmer running.

Thanks for having such a great site! I look at it all the time and it's great to have a website like this where all of us VFFers can see others with the same awesome shoes!

Sounds like you've got a nice one-two punch for year-round VFF running! It's not often we see Flows, so thanks for sharing!

And glad to be of assistance to the Five Fingers fan community!

Update: Matt sent in a couple few more photos from a hike he took earlier this year in his VFF Sprints:

Matt poses on a hike in the Appalachian Mountains near Boone, North Carolina!

I went on a day of hiking in the Appalachian Mountains up near Boone, NC (where i go to college.... Go App!!) with my family earlier this semester and enjoyed all of the beautiful scenery and great views in my VFF Sprints. I sure got some weird looks by people passing by and lots of questions about what the heck i had on my feet and why i would ever hike in them, including people from my own family!! It was a lot of fun and i can't wait for warmer weather to do it again soon!!
Enjoying the VFF-view!
About the Author — I founded BirthdayShoes.com in April 2009 on realizing just how much I enjoyed having "free feet" - I mostly wanted to use them for weights, sprints, and plyometrics (I'm not much of a runner!). I'm a Googler by day and minimalist footwear aficionado by night; you can find me 'round Atlanta. If you want to catch up with what I'm doing outside of the site here, follow me on twitter @bdayshoes or @justinno or check out my personal site JustinOwings.com.
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Comment from: Michael @badassdadblog [Visitor] Email
Michael @badassdadblogWell done, Matt!

I ran a Thanksgiving 5K in my KSOs, and as far as I could tell I was also the only one in VFFs.

Michael
12/01/09 @ 12:42
Comment from: Barney [Visitor]
BarneyI am about to do a 15km race in london, will the VFF flows be alright for that?
03/04/10 @ 12:44
Comment from: Justin Owings [Member] Email
Barney,

Really depends on how much running you've been doing in your Flows so far. If you're new to VFFs and going to race soon -- like in the next few weeks -- it might be too soon.

If you've been regularly running in your Flows, then that's another story!
03/04/10 @ 12:47
Comment from: Edna Alford [Visitor]
Edna AlfordI just purchased a pair of VFF's and have ran 1 mile and a half thus far in them at the track. I am going to slowly up my mileage in them to make sure I give my legs and feet time to adjust to the change. I can't wait to do my first 5K in my VFF's. I am a running mom and I hope all our visitors to www.runningmoms.org will give us some feedback to our Vibram Five Finger forum on how they are likig theirs. How soon is to soon to make a one hundred percent switch over?
03/04/10 @ 21:09