Matt has a nice collection of Vibram Five Fingers that he has been wearing for quite a while. He sent us this note on how they have been working for him:
October 30th, I signed up for a 5K to see how fast I could finish. I finished in a personal best 22:46. I love running in the Bikilas after years of fighting blisters in regular running shoes, I am still waiting on my first one to appear from my Five Fingers. I have a 25K trail run on November 6th, so the Bikilas will get the weekend off. Keep up the good work on the site.
Matt
Thanks for story and glad to hear you are having such great success with your Five Fingers!
In an interesting “it’s a small world” side note, I happened to run in the same 25K trail run that Matt did this past Saturday. In fact, he passed me at about the 4 mile mark. I noticed he was wearing Five Fingers and we talked a little bit about them until I realized I couldn’t match his pace. He was running strong but relaxed and had a great forefoot strike stride. This will all be news to Matt, since I never mentioned BirthdayShoes. Ha. Small world.
I ran the 20th Annual Rocky Raccoon 25K Trail Run in my recently reviewed New Balance MT101s. It was my first trail race. Here is the race report that I posted at Daily Mile. For Houston area runners who are interested in trail running, the Hog’s Hunt 50k/25k is planned for April. Sam Houston State Park is a beautiful place to run.
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What running shoes were you wearing that caused you so many blister issues? I’ve had issues with a few brands/models but always been able to find some that didn’t cause issues. Looking back it was always the non-neutral shoes that seemed to cause me the most problems. Once I went to more minimal, neutral shoes I haven’t had any significant issues, especially not at sub-ultramarathon distances…