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Day 3 in VFFs

August 4, 2009 By 6 Comments

I wore my Vibram Five Fin­gers again today for a short walk. They were a lot eas­ier to get into this time and my pinky toes seemed to stay put bet­ter (hop­ing they will become less curled in and more straight after wear­ing VFFs for awhile). I also wore them in the house some. I kept bump­ing into chair and table legs with the pinky part of the shoe. I guess I usu­ally cut it pretty close, and now that these shoes have some­thing on the out­side front, it catches on stuff. I’ll get used to it, and will mostly be wear­ing them out­side, any way. ym7bd4x3ug

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  • http://annaruns.blogspot.com/ anna

    I didn’t realise you were so knew to FFs. My pinkie toes are still curled — it’s just the way they are. But I can slip on the FFs quickly with­out fid­get­ing with the toe bits.

    It takes many toe stub­bings to learn your les­son… and you will still prob­a­bly bump your toes into things. ouch ouch ouch

    • Clyn­ton

      Thanks, Anna. I’ve already notice that I’m faster at putting the Five Fin­gers on. I’m really enjoy­ing the feel of them. Can’t wait until I can run in them like you!

  • http://annaruns.blogspot.com anna

    I didn’t realise you were so knew to FFs. My pinkie toes are still curled — it’s just the way they are. But I can slip on the FFs quickly with­out fid­get­ing with the toe bits.

    It takes many toe stub­bings to learn your les­son… and you will still prob­a­bly bump your toes into things. ouch ouch ouch

    • Clyn­ton

      Thanks, Anna. I’ve already notice that I’m faster at putting the Five Fin­gers on. I’m really enjoy­ing the feel of them. Can’t wait until I can run in them like you!

  • http://twitter.com/kristenwestlake Kris­ten Westlake

    I’ve had curled toes from them break­ing years ago in High School run­ning and since. … I’ve been run­ning now in VFF for about 2 months (and am doing some bare­foot runs on pave­ment ) and my toes are STRAIGHT! … I never knew that this would hap­pen but its been a very pleas­ant “side effect” of near bare­foot run­ning…
    also I feel that there is a nat­ural “reflex­ol­ogy” that goes on while being bare­foot or near bare­foot … its a dif­fer­ent “high” than I’ve ever had run­ning in clunky shoes with build up heels (I’ve always hated that as I am a “toe” run­ner).
    I am sure you will find your toes are straight soon!
    My Best,
    Kris­ten West­lake
    Blog: http://www.kristenwestlake.net
    Site: http://www.kristenwestlake.org

    • http://www.runningquest.net Clyn­ton

      That’s great news! Thanks for shar­ing with us. There are so many direct and indi­rect (some I’m still learn­ing about, like you) to run­ning bare­foot. Glad you are doing some bare­foot on a hard sur­face, as this really helps you improve your form (and straighten your toes, appar­ently!). Toes crossed my toes straighten up some more. Thanks again, Clynton

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