I'm interested about barefoot running but don't really know when to start because I'm fighting against shin splints since June. Working on it with my physio who told me about minimalism last year.
I wanted to run barefoot today, so after my usual run (with shoes), I just took them off and ran one more km barefoot on concrete. It was great, I never ran this silent before! High cadence, low vertical oscillation... I really enjoyed it except for the few gravel on the road.
I have nice concrete around my house but not so much in my city. It's more like old roads and gravel. I can't really buy new shoes right now because I bought my last pair (altra escalante) few weeks ago. But maybe I will buy a pair of vapor glove or something similar in the next month.
I think I will run barefoot again tomorrow!
Hi my old sandals had velcro and I got used to making them as tight and snug as possible. I got the Unshoes Pah Tempes (after weeks of order time) and they have no velcro and not a lot of adjustability in how tight the straps are. They are definitely fun to run in but when Im walking they feel a little slidey. Im wondering is this something I should just get used to or should I order down a size? I know feet fluctuate in size and as such shoes are supposed to be slightly loose. Any advice?
Hi all!
I'm moving and trying to get rid of things that don't get much use. Among those is a pair of Unshoes Keota sandals in the olive green colorway in a men's size 10. My feet seem not to like the toe post style, and between that and not liking the way that these sandals look on my feet, they haven't gotten much use.
If anybody here is interested in trying these, I'm happy to give them away. Preference would be to avoid shipping and give them to someone who can pick them up in San Francisco, but failing that, I don't mind tossing them in an envelope and mailing them USPS to anyone who is willing to reimburse me for the postage on receipt.
The sandals in question, looking a bit raggedy after being rinsed off with the hose, are visible at https://imgur.com/a/k5tXRFK.
It seems like Unshoe has been around for a while, they say that Wokova was the first sandals of their kind to use straps instead of cord. And they're half the price of some other similar sandals...
I tried the xero version of this sandal, broke the hole the cord goes through the second time I adjusted them... But I did love how thin they are, so I should like the Wokova's as long as the straps are comfortable.
I like the look of the Wokova feather with the smaller straps.
Do your worst!
I was hiking with my Dad in late September on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, which is usually when Bears are fattinging up for hibernation and most likely to be aggressive and since we were a couple days walk from either trailhead (and medical attention) we were on high alert. It had rained constantly and we had only seen a single other hiker the whole time, he was traveling in the opposite direction as we were (he was heading North we were South bound) and we had camped beside him 2 nights prior. So for the whole trip the only tracks that we saw that looked remotely fresh were a single set of hiking boots coming towards us left by a pleasant and solitary German tourist and we only saw them in places with extensive overhead cover. All other tracks were washed out and filled with rain water due to the days and days of constant rain that was doing the best it could to fuck up our vacation and make our packs even heavier.
We were approaching a blackberry patch between ridges that hugged a small creek and smelled what we thought was a particularly stinky Bear and since the blackberries were on both sides of the trail with only about 3 metres between them, we had our heads on a swivel. There was no overhanging trees as this particular berry patch was dozens of metres across and two or more metres high. My Dad told me to hurry through as quick as we could and made a comment about how smart it was that we were wearing Bearbells and how dangerous it is to startle a feeding Bear. He was a couple metres ahead of me when I looked down and saw a footprint.
It looked like an unshoed human footprint, except that it was two inches wider and at least two inches longer than mine, and I have size 14 feet. It also had dermal ridges and only had a couple rain drops in it, so whatever made it had stepped there literally moments before. The scariest thing about it was that there was no other prints so whatever had made that track had stepped out of the Eastern side of the berry patch across the trail (3 metres) and into the Western patch in a single step. I was so startled I looked around as much as I could before my Dad lovingly told me to "Hurry the fuck up." And that was the only track there that wasn't now a small puddle, so before you discount it as a double stepping Bear paw print (where a Bear's back paw steps into the print of it's front paw) there is no way a Black Bear could have crossed that 3 metre distance without leaving more prints, say what you want a
... keep reading on reddit ➡I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Buenosdillas
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
Does the footbed compress and mold to your foot, or does it stay flat?
I am interested in the Wakova Feathers
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
