Latest Vibram Five Fingers Reviews 12/20/09
This week's lastest V5F reviews includes one from Boris, who reviews the elusive and discontinued Fi
This week's lastest V5F reviews includes one from Boris, who reviews the elusive and discontinued Five Fingers Surge:
This may not seem like much but in cooler water this is important as well as the fact that they reach higher up the leg allowing you to tuck your wet suit in and eliminate any gap between the shoe and the wetsuit. To put it simply they will keep you warm, but don't be fooled by that as they are not cold water shoes, with 2mm thickness they won't work for freezing water as you'll need a pair of old school water-shoes with some 5-6mm thickness to keep from losing a toe or two.
Also, the first week of using them caused my shins and calves to ache a lot! So I guess it is true that you will mobilize muscles that you don’t normally use with normal running shoes.
I would recommend for most that if you are going to run in them—and you should, if only for a mile or two, just for the experience—that you ease into them, let your body rewire and recalibrate, rather than just put them on and knock out ten kilometers or whatever. The first time I ran in them, I ran maybe a mile, maybe a bit less. After about thirty seconds, my body had mechanically adapted—my stride was shorter, my steps lighter, I stood much more upright. But the thing I noticed greater than anything was that I wanted to keep running, I wanted to run more. So I only ran a mile or so the first few times, because I’m older and wiser and am thankful to be able to run, and I certainly didn’t want to screw that up.
I found these shoes to be on par with the Classics in terms of range of motion and protection. I ran down the icy streets of Jozefow, Poland, where my in-laws are, with nary a slip or slide and I wore these shoes without socks in sub-freezing weather, much to my mother-in-law’s chagrin.
For last week's latest Vibram Five Fingers reviews, go here.
