How they normally look.
The Why
They’re like pool shoes. Some people opt to get toe socks to go with it, but that seems awfully excessive considering my previously-stated goals with the shoes. So aside from facilitating my laziness and costing considerably more than a normal shoe (and roughly the same as a runner’s shoe, anyway), why was I interested in these? I don’t want to spend this entire space going into the theoretic principles behind it because scientifically, there’s still no advantage to barefoot running versus heel striking, but there was plenty of authentic anecdotal evidence to go off of. Humans weren’t designed to run in shoes, they were designed to run on feet. Shoes became our big, cushy barrier to the world, absorbing much of the trauma of our foot strikes and allowing for longer strides by letting us heel-strike – which means hitting the ground with the heel of our foot, rather than the ball (which is what we use to tippie-toe on). As a result, there are conditions that can arise because of this different, unnatural way of walking and because we’re not conducting business as natural selection intended, various leg muscles atrophy. It’s the basis for the barefoot runner’s movement and on paper it makes sense. So, I bought in.
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