Author Archives: jameskhammer

I have been running in them for a little over a year. I love them; don’t wanna run in anything else. The muscles around my ankles along with my calves did hurt pretty bad at first. I think it may have something to do with my weight (260lb). I give credit to me running in vff (transitioning to bf one day) to Christopher Mcdougal and Barefoot Ted. I read the book of his called “Born to Run”; and all i wanted to do was run, run, and run some more. When I was in the Marines I didn’t care much for it but now I love to run.

I am 29 yrs old. I ran while in the Marines for 4 yrs; landed on my heel then. Now since a little over a yr running in Vibram Five Fingers I land on the ball of my foot. Now i run indoors on a track at a local fitness club and outside when weather permits. Treadmill is the last resort. At this time I am on a program from Hal Higdons web site; so I average about 9-15miles a week. My shins hurt at first but I took a week off and started back and backed off the miles and pain is gone. I would not run any other way.