Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “When you’re standing barefoot, your heel and forefoot both make contact with the ground,” explains Ben Stark, an avid ...

If you’re a big VFF fan, you may have been thinking about moving toward a more closed shoe for trail running but didn’t want to sacrifice the delicious toe splay offered by “real” foot gloves. Merrell ...

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For the longest time, I was a skeptic — if not full-blown critic — of the trend of running barefoot. You could chalk a big reason up to evolution. Just like the humans who wear them, running shoes ...

It's fair to say that most trail running shoes are beefier than the road variety, as they're designed to take on roots, rocks and other trail debris. Many runners use them as a winter running shoe as ...

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Humans have been walking barefoot for most of our existence, long before the invention of modern shoes. But in the past couple of decades, we’ve started gravitating back to minimalist designs that ...

ROCKFORD — Some of the world’s greatest long-distance runners have never slipped their feet into a pair of running shoes. In Northern Mexico, the Tarahumara Indians run for hours with only a simple ...

It’s no secret we love our Vibram Five Fingers. But despite how their revolutionary take on footwear, there are still some downsides. Occasions that require “regular shoes” still exist, but lack the ...