Barefoot runners avoid impacts

How in the devil I am supposed to run outdoors all winter in the duckfeet has not yet been addressed.  Running in thin soles no grip on ice is a lesser form of suicide I care not partake of right now. Metal screws not so good in thin soles. Ouch. For now, like 'cookies are a sometimes food' for Cookie Monster on Sesame Street, I limit the Vibrams to treadmill duty.

 "Those $150 supercushioned running shoes you just bought? They may be predisposing you to lower leg and foot injuries like plantar fasciitis, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed the forces that occur when runners hit the ground heel-first (as is common when wearing modern, cushioned shoes), and mid- and fore-foot first (more common among barefoot runners). The heel-strikers came down harder. "Fore-foot- and mid-foot-strike gaits were probably more common when humans ran barefoot or in minimal shoes and may protect the feet and lower limbs from some of the impact-related injuries now experienced by a high percentage of runners," the authors wrote in a study published in Nature."- US News.


It's all over the net.  Harvard Biologist Daniel Lieberman's study from the Journal Nature is out. The non-Ph.D version here.
-Larry