My First Week With Vibram FiveFingers

I’m trying to be smart about this.

I’ve had the “shoes” now for almost a week and have worn them religiously, every day. I wore them to dinner to the other night and my wife almost killed me. I’ll admit, they are a bit goofy looking, but looks aside these are THE MOST comfortable things I have ever had on my body.

I’ve just been walking in them for the moment. The first time I put them on it was like nothing I’ve experienced in my life. Sure I’m used to putting gloves on my hands and getting each finger into each respective slot, but doing this for my feet? A little weird. And I use the word weird in a most good way, these things feel awesome. When I walk I can see my toes splay like they are naturally meant to do. There’s no toe-box like on a shoe so there’s nothing preventing my feet from acting purely natural…purely fantastic!

After the first couple of days I had some soreness in the arches of my feet. I would assume this is completely natural as it is what I have read in research and is the reason I am attempting to take it S-L-O-W. I have to be honest though. I want to run. I feel like I’m five again, I feel like running will be a blast!

I am planning my first run tomorrow. 1 mile, keeping with the keep it slow mentality. I plan on running my next four or so runs at only 1 mile. This also happens to be the exact distance I have ever been able to run because pain sets in just prior to the mile mark and I am forced to stop…I’m totally stoked to see what happens with these!