I think spikes are faster than bare feet.
I think spikes are faster than bare feet.
exactly, exactly, but they are very very minimalistic...that's why I think the discussion on this board is so funny. People laughing at people wearing VFFs but don't think twice about wearing spikes?
bumtard wrote:
exactly, exactly, but they are very very minimalistic...that's why I think the discussion on this board is so funny. People laughing at people wearing VFFs but don't think twice about wearing spikes?
idk about you, but i wear spikes to race. that's it.
When I ran track (as a not-so-talented high schooler), I trained some in spikes and in flats, and barefoot, not all of the time, but a healthy bit. And of course I raced in spikes and flats. My point is, minimalistic footwear, especially for the track-oriented crowd here, shouldn't be an alien concept. Tons of elite track guys have done some training barefoot. Tons.
I've never really been fast myself, but I have run with a lot of top-level runners, and very few of them wore overbuilt shoes: shox, cell, gel, air, whatever. OK, maybe some of their shoes had a little bit of that shit in them, but not in an ostentatious way. And I've known a number of very good runners to train in flats. But mostly, light, neutral simple shoes. Meaning most good runner reject about 90% of the overblown crap that shoe companies put out.
I remember Seneca Lassiter wearing some big-ass silver Nike Air moon-boots, but that's the only counter-example that comes immediately to mind.