Jace Hinesly is 22, far too young to remember the old Adidas Country, a white leather icon of the 1970s, when running first captured the popular imagination. He didn’t have the pleasure of we… ...

Nike, New Balance, Saucony, Asics ... the big boys used to be the only option when you stepped into a store in search of running shoes. Gear Junkie: Skora jumps into minimalist running shoe market ...

The best minimalist running shoes, when used properly, can be useful training tools to strengthen your feet. In this guide, we review a range of styles and models.

Runners who are barefoot, and those in minimalist running shoes, typically land on their front foot first (a front-foot strike). Shoe type is not perfectly predictive of strike pattern, but the ...

Call them what you like, toe shoes, foot gloves, gorilla feet. Call them strange-looking, weird, ugly if you're so inclined. Just understand that the funky, almost barefoot look of the FiveFingers ...

Barefoot seems better for the feet, producing far less impact stress compared with feet shod in fancy, expensive running shoes, according to a study. The Associated Press · Posted: Jan 27, 2010 2 ...

The running shoe, containing a cushioned heel, allows the runner to land on the heel of the foot with an extended leg. This is perhaps why about 75 per cent of runners nowadays are heel strikers.

Long before anyone ever ran a 10K or a marathon, humans were running down wild animals. Meat, not medals, was the reward for the hunters who scampered barefoot through the wilds. "We evolved to ...

Not too long ago, running shoes weren’t a source of controversy. You found a pair that worked, and that was that. This era of innocence appears to be over, thanks largely to the disruptive ...