A Simple Life of Luxury

Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means

Tagged: Barefoot

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Fitness

Running in my Vibram FiveFingers

I’ve been using the Vibram FiveFingers I was given a little bit since I’ve been back from New Zealand and I think I like them! As I’ve said before you need to start off slowly with such things and do some short runs in them at first and then gradually build the volume and intensity of your...

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Triathlon

Barefoot Running

I’ve been thinking about the idea of barefoot running for a while and was recently lent a book called Born to Run by Christopher McDougall. It’s an inspirational and eye-opening book about a tribe of long distance runners from Mexico and a group of elite ultra-distance runners from around the world. They don’t all run...