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  1. Socks with Vibram 5 fingers

    Hi Guys, Regarding my socks question earlier, I have used some 5 fingers socks but they all are cotton. As i live in a country where humidity levels are usually very high along with high temprature, my feet gets sweaty and these socks start to slip due to sweat. I am looking for some...
  2. Blisters on heals / Burning affect

    Any particular idea how to make sure I bend knee? During running, I dont notice it and for sure when I saw my video some other day, I noticed I dont bend knee often. So how to start practicing bending knees with higher cadence?
  3. Blisters on heals / Burning affect

    Attached are the pics. Light whitish area are the blisters. Also the edge of my heals are also paining specially when it touches the corner of bed or carpet. The footwear is new.. less than 100 kms done. Things were going fine but the last run which was all downhill on road, I reached the pace...
  4. Blisters on heals / Burning affect

    Hi Folks. Yesterday I ran downhill on road for a 30 minutes run with full pace wearing my Vibram 5 fingers. This was my first attempt for a downhill full pace run. After 2.5 kms (around 15 minutes) I felt SEVERE sensation below my heals area like some rock or needle type thing entered inside my...
  5. Pain at inner side of knee

    Hi all, I have starting running on vibram 5 fingers since last 2 months. I was running with Asics and On cloud before that since last 5 years. Now recently I have felt very needle like pain at inner portion of the knee. I have attached the pic labelling the area where I get pain. This pain is...
  6. Socks with Vibram 5 fingers

    How often you people wash these Vibrams? With every run / weekly / monthly / Quarterly ?
  7. Socks with Vibram 5 fingers

    I have the V-Run pair.. i would try to do this stretch to them too .. May be it will help it to keep that back part away from rubbing the feet back area for me
  8. Socks with Vibram 5 fingers

    I ususally dont wear socks for anything less than 10 km too.. The problem with sizing is that there are no local stores for Vibram in my country. I have to order them from USA so I selected my normal shoe size of old ASICS ...It seems to be that I should have ordered size 43 instead of 44, which...
  9. Socks with Vibram 5 fingers

    Thanks all. Yesterday I had my first run with them ... It was a new experience as my pinky finger is too attached to its adjacent finger so keep it in its column was a challenge. The problem I faced was blister on back of feet. Anything to avoid it? Pic attached for area
  10. Socks with Vibram 5 fingers

    Thanks No issue.
  11. Socks with Vibram 5 fingers

    Thanks. I will try without socks today. But for sure I am having big issue fitting my pinky toe. Its keep on sticking with adjacent finger which is making it little difficult for me to control it. Currently I have ordered same size as my normal shoe as I was not sure about it. As per Vibram...
  12. Socks with Vibram 5 fingers

    Hi all, Need advice. My new Vibram 5 fingers will arrive today. I just want to know if people recommend wearing socks with these or without socks ?
  13. Little pain in pinky toe

    Its internal .. I wont say fracture as I can move the finger .. but its unpleasant type pain which I feel specially when walking on soft surface like my pinky toe is disbalanced ..
  14. Little pain in pinky toe

    Hi, I am a new to barefoot / minimalist running. I am currently using an Aqua shoes for my road runs. I am using normal socks with the aqua shoes too. I have noticed that I feel little pain on my left foot nearby pinky finger area. There was no pain observed when I was doing barefoot running on...
  15. Beach running minimalist shoes

    Yup its Celcius and we are melting ..
  16. Beach running minimalist shoes

    Thanks for your reply. Yes indeed my first preference is to go totally barefoot. Recently the outside temperature we are experiencing is almost near 50 degrees, so until it goes below 40, I will try in these aqua shoes and waiting for my vibram to arrive (dont know when). atleast using Aqua, I...
  17. Beach running minimalist shoes

    Hi guys. Need your advice regarding the attached shoes that I am trying right now. As I am waiting for my Vibram (stucked in transit), I have tried my beach running shoes for road running the day before for 10k run. As I tried to to barefoot on road previously which went very very bad for me due...
  18. New Member Adeel here

    Thanks. Rubber coating. Interesting. I have same type of socks I think. Got it from some indoor playing area for kids... Will try that .