It seems as if one of the most common "dangers" of barefoot running that everyone insists exists is that we are going to step on something that will obviously lead to certain death or at least dismembermant. But honestly I just don't get it. I've only gotten one thing embedded in my foot and it was a pebble that came out on its own a few days later and didn't really even hurt (and this was when I was like a week into bf running so I had no build up of my soles). I've run over broken glass with nothing more than a thought of "hmm wish I had been paying closer attention and avoided that". I think by far the worst thing I ever ran over were some thistles which I easily pulled out and continued on. If you look at the injury forum seldom do you see any real injuries caused by stepping on something, maybe a few posts on how best to remove an object but thats about it. And yet this is the danger that every single article, and every random person focuses on and says we should use VFFs ect... to prevent, even though that will arguably allow for more TMTS injuries.
So I'm curious, has anyone actually stepped on something that lived up to the hype of what critics and worried family tell us? Or better yet have you run over something they claimed would hurt and didn't?
So I'm curious, has anyone actually stepped on something that lived up to the hype of what critics and worried family tell us? Or better yet have you run over something they claimed would hurt and didn't?