Does anyone run sockless? How does it work for you? Anything you do to avoid blisters? How does it go with water crossings? Anybody do really long runs sockless? Like ultramarathons? Thanks.
Does anyone run sockless? How does it work for you? Anything you do to avoid blisters? How does it go with water crossings? Anybody do really long runs sockless? Like ultramarathons? Thanks.
I do regularly, as I cant be bothered to wash my socks a lot of the time. If I was a little less lazy, I would always wear socks. It feels better. But it doesn't make a great deal of difference either way. I don't get blisters. Providing I run, I'm happy.
I almost always go sockless for all my runs and races, up to marathon distance. I've got a few calluses for blister prevention. I actually like being sockless at water crossings, because I feel like my feet dry out faster. The only downside is, my shoes stink like hell. Once the new-shoe odor wears off, it gets pretty disgusting - I usually wind up leaving them out on the porch.
i wear socks that help remove sweat when im on long training runs. but as soon as i strap on my spikes im all sockless, its much more comfortable. but either, socks or no, the only thing to do to prevent blisters is to do it and get used comfortable with it.
Do it enough and any blisters you get will turn into calluses that will prevent future ones
We used to all the time, but shoes are more built up now, it takes longer to break them in.
Look at some olde tyme photos, especially from around 1968-1976. You'll a lot of sockless runners.
I run in my asics speedstars sockless and I enjoy the freedom of the road a little better like that. Just have to be carefull because twice once on a long canyon run in sweltering heat and once in a half marathon(Both Sockless) I blistered up badly. So short runs yes long runs or canyons no. Body glide my help, but haven't tried it on my feet sockless.
Read the chapter in 'Again to Carthage' that describes Quenton's effort in the Olympic Trials marathon. After reading that I'll never go sockless again.....
I used to go sockless because I would run out of clean socks before I ran out of clean clothes (and I wasn't going to do laundry just for socks).
Never got a blister or a callous and so I started going sockless even when I had clean socks.
Four complaints about being sockless drove me back to wearing socks:
1-The sweat wouldn't get wicked off my feet as well and my feet would be sweaty enough to disgust me (which wasn't easy at this point in my life as I was the kind of guy who wasn't doing laundry even when I had no socks).
2-Rocks or dirt in my shoes were a lot more annoying without socks.
3-Shoe odor that would not quit or be conquered by Febreeze.
4-My shoes started feeling stiffer, I imagine because they were accumulating more of the sweat that would normally go into the socks.