====== Running Notes======

===== And Human Evolution =====

  -[[http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~skeleton/pdfs/2004e.pdf|Dennis M. Bramble1 & Daniel E. Lieberman 2004 article in Nature]]
  -[[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WJS-4PHJMGM-2&_user=10&_origUdi=B6WJS-4PK8FXG-1&_fmt=high&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2007&_rdoc=1&_orig=article&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=41eb1d22126aae3c1756c2e4b4f875eb|Travis Rayne Pickeringa and Henry T. Bunna responce to above ]]
  - [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.07.002|The evolution of endurance running and the tyranny of ethnography: A reply to Pickering and Bunn (2007)]]

===== barefoot running =====

Nature 463, 531-535(28 January 2010) Foot strike patterns and collision forces in habitually
barefoot versus shod runners [[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7280/abs/nature08723.html|abstract]]/[[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7280/full/nature08723.html|html]][[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7280/pdf/nature08723.pdf|pdf]]

I'll try to take some pictures of the setup soon.


===== Shoe Attempts =====

As it gets colder and damper I am trying some things to extend the time I can use my VFFs:



==== VFFs & Yaktrax ====

This works great! 
Just put the yaktrax on over your VFFs.  Newer yaktrax don't work quite as well as they added a reinforcing bit of rubber that prevents you from pulling them on so that they run between your toes, but even so, they work great for when the conditions are icy.


==== Bog shoes over VFFS ====
I am playing with putting on a pair of my bog shoes over my FiveFingers but 
I'm not sure if this is any better than running in bogs with shoe liners (the thick sock like ones).  

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Here is the bottom after the walk/run:
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==== Simple Leather Sandals ====
In preparation for running at Pennsic this year I made some leather huaraches and ran in those.  They worked out quite well.  I do use socks with them, I wear them with a pair of Injinji bamboo sock liners and then a thick conventional sock.  By leaving the conventional socks a bit loose in the front I have had no problem using them with the strap between the big toe.  Leather thickness does make a big difference.  I think what I am using is 12 or 15 oz veg tan.  It is some I had left over from my armor making days so it something I bought a long time ago and so don't know the weight for sure.      

==== Accelerometer Study ====

Now that it is warmer I have been attaching an accelerometer((http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=248)) to myself to see about impact forces.  So far I am still gathering data, mostly by attaching it under the strap of the VFFs on the inside of my left foot below my ankle.  Early results seem to confirm lower g-force when running barefoot than when walking with normal heal strike. 

==== Socks ====
A few folks have asked, so here is where I have purchased toe socks:

[[http://www.injinji.com/tetratsok/performance.htm]] injinji Performance Micro Toe Sock

[[http://www.sockdreams.com/_shop/pages/socks_cat_CategoryID_91.php]] sockdreams - lots of toe socks

Alternatively, carfully cutting slots in the front of tube socks works nicely as well:((slit tube socks is what I am wearing in the bog shoe pictures))

(pictures soon)