Barefoot and FiveFingers Fan Gets 5-Toed/Barefoot Logo Tattoo!

… Well this is pretty much how i got into barefoot running:).. I started running in 8th grade, and I used regular tennis shoes at the time, until I rolled my ankle and tore a ligament. I hated wearing any type of shoe anyway, so this made me hate them more! So I decided to start running barefoot. No shoes, just bare nothing. I thought it’d be better because I wasn’t so high off the ground. It was, in the beginning but I would get cuts and stuff and it was just no bueno. I stopped running for a while 🙁 which I hated because I love to run.

Now, sophomore year came around and I was just surfing the web, and I was looking up ‘weird things’.. And across came Vibrams. Ha I was amazed when I saw them because they’re different and cool looking and light! So I researched on them and found all this info on what they can help, prevent, and improve. So curiousity got me—I had to buy me some.

So begging my parents to get me some, they finally did. I got the classics. And I wore those babies out! LOL I actually have a picture of them.. I wish they were fixable-but they are long gone. RIP Classics:

I now have my beaten classics, my bikilas, and soon to arrive Jaya LRs which I am uber excited to get! I got the tattoo because it means a lot to me and your logo was the best way I could describe it through a picture on my skin. And when people see it and ask the significance of it, I educate them on vibrams and barefoot running. I’m going to school to become a kinesiologist/sports nutritionist, so I love learning about and sharing my knowledge on stuff like this in order to help others in making right choices.