Bear-foot, human-foot...how about Merrell barefoot?

    So I am sure by now all of you know i have a little thing for barefoot running.  I am really starting to get into and I am loving every step of it.  Right now, I have just been doing forward running (as I described in an earlier post) in traditional running shoes.  Well...I have decided to take the plunge and actually splurge to get a pair of barefoot shoes!  I am so excited!!!  After much research and deliberation I have decided to go with the Merrell Women's Barefoot Pace Glove.  The video below is produced by Merrell to advertise their new barefoot technology.

    Andrea from Merrell does a great job of explaining all the amazing features of the Barefoot Pace Glove.  Another thing that makes this shoe so fantastic is that the women's version is ESPECIALLY designed for women!   Not that we're particular or anything ;)  The women's version comes to a total weight of 4.7 ozs per shoe.  This light weight allows runners to not be bogged down with heavy shoes; allowing for faster recovery with each step in their gait.

    I wanted to go more in depth on the 0mm ball to heel drop and what exactly that means.  Even though the shoe is slightly built up (just millimeters) a persons foot is still able to be level within the shoe.  A shoe does not have to have individual cubbies for each toe in order for it to be barefoot; the only requirement is a zero degree drop from heel to toe.  The Barefoot Pace Glove achieves this making it "barefoot" even though it is a shoe.  With the Barefoot Pace Glove a runner can really feel connected with the ground their running on.

    The Barefoot Pace Glove allows a runner to return back to their natural stride the way humans were designed to run.  You wont just feel like a kid running around barefoot again but also a primitive cro-magnon!

OK, now I am just getting way to excited...I should stop.  Well, I will be ordering my shoes this coming Thursday (when I get paid) and I will let you all know when they come in and how my running is going.  I AM SO EXCITED!!!

Happy Trails :)