The best barefoot running shoes have come a long way in the last 18 years, since Vibram's FiveFingers first pioneered a novel approach to the trails. Boosted by Christopher McDougall's Born to Run in ...
Based on mass alone, one might intuit that running barefoot would exact a lower metabolic cost than running in shoes. Numerous studies have shown that adding mass to shoes increases submaximal oxygen ...
Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part series on “Hadashi no Gen” (Barefoot Gen), Keiji Nakazawa’s manga series themed on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which began running in ...