20 fingers.

so i got my pair of vibram five fingers and they are pretty wicked...i went with the aqua camo because i thought it best represented my personality...black or brown is so boring...plus i wanted them to stand out so everybody would stare (which happened...why do people try to hide their stares...it confuses me...like i don't see you staring at my feet)...anyways, i figured i should wear them around a bit to break them in, but then instead i did the grouse grind in them...that first pic above is me on the trail and the second one is me almost breaking my foot while trying to take another photo so i put the camera away until i was at the top...the third is the FF after the climb, a little dirty but no worse for the wear...i am not going to do a review of them or anything, you can find a hundred of them on the web already...i will say i loved them, they really do mimic barefootting well and give you protection against all the stuff that shoe wearers are afraid of...i also did an easy 5 miles in them later the same day and they were great...you can still feel all the contours and changes in the ground (which is the best part of barefooting) but the little stones and rocks don't get to you as much...there are a few different types of FF which i will be looking into in the future, but these will do me for now...go check them out and consider buying some, you won't be disappointed.

the next day, i decided to do another hike, the chief (located in squamish), in the FF...again they performed great...the best parts of wearing these new 'shoes' is that my leg muscles get a great workout...in the past when i was wearing shoes i would get various pains that were just uncomfortable and, well, painful...these pains were not a good thing, they were warnings against something that was bad...wearing FF i don't get pain, i get soreness because i am using muscles i didn't previously use on a regular basis...i can see how much stronger my feet and lower legs were get after prolonged use of the FF...i can't say enough...here are some highlights of my climb up the chief.





other than my FF nothing new is going on here...i am waiting on some job news and if it is good looks like i will be moving to canmore, alberta...if the news isn't as good all you ontario folk keep your eyes peeled for my pretty little face...i miss all you anyways, so if you see a runner barefoot in your parts who looks like he hasn't shaved in 6 weeks, it could be me...i will posted with the good/bad news when i get it...until then enjoy the world.

m.