After reading some of the discussions going on in the other threads, especially the Quit Barefoot and Half Marathon in VFFs threads, I had a thought. It seems like the people less concerned with speed are more willing to barefoot all the time while the people more concerned with PRs are more likely to trend minimalist.
I know for me its much easier to run fast with something on my feet. Not sure I'll ever actually do a tri barefoot because I am interested in pushing myself to go faster and I think my VFFs will allow me to do that more than barefooting, even if I trained bare and got very used to it (which may or may not be true). Barefooting is for more fun, relaxed runs.
Thoughts? (I know there's at least one or two BFR speed demons out there dying to jump on this.)
I know for me its much easier to run fast with something on my feet. Not sure I'll ever actually do a tri barefoot because I am interested in pushing myself to go faster and I think my VFFs will allow me to do that more than barefooting, even if I trained bare and got very used to it (which may or may not be true). Barefooting is for more fun, relaxed runs.
Thoughts? (I know there's at least one or two BFR speed demons out there dying to jump on this.)