I'm Darcey, 27, in the Army as a animal care technician., I'm stationed in Cairo, Egypt right now, got a yr left here. I just started getting interested in BFS running the last couple months. My husband has been wearing FF for about a year now and loves them. I can't stand anything between my toes so had never got into it. I had shin splints last year quite bad for months, had done physical therapy and they went away for a month or so then came back. This was while i was stationed in CO. I bought a pair of Nike Free's(because I thought they would be a good transition shoe, I hadn't done alot of research at the time) and was running small amts in them and stopped having problems with my shins (i was trying not to heel-strike at that point).
I just got a pair of terra plana Neo's about 3 weeks ago and I love them! I'm trying to work on my bfr technique right now. My left calf muscle feels really tight when I run, so I've only been able to run a mile or so at a time, because I don't want to hurt anything doing tmts. It feels like I need to stretch my soleus, but I have anterior impingement syndrom I think on that ankle that I'm seeing a doc about tomorrow, and so can't stretch it. I wish I could actually try running barefoot, but here in Cairo it's not really an option. I've done it for about 1/4 mile at a time on the treadmill here in the gym before the skin on my sole starts getting a little burned from the belt lol. There's nowhere here to run barefoot outside because there's literally trash everywhere, feral animal feces everywhere, and not good sidewalks and traffic is horrible. So maybe when I go back to the US in a year, I may try true barefoot running.
Anyways, nice to meet you all.
I just got a pair of terra plana Neo's about 3 weeks ago and I love them! I'm trying to work on my bfr technique right now. My left calf muscle feels really tight when I run, so I've only been able to run a mile or so at a time, because I don't want to hurt anything doing tmts. It feels like I need to stretch my soleus, but I have anterior impingement syndrom I think on that ankle that I'm seeing a doc about tomorrow, and so can't stretch it. I wish I could actually try running barefoot, but here in Cairo it's not really an option. I've done it for about 1/4 mile at a time on the treadmill here in the gym before the skin on my sole starts getting a little burned from the belt lol. There's nowhere here to run barefoot outside because there's literally trash everywhere, feral animal feces everywhere, and not good sidewalks and traffic is horrible. So maybe when I go back to the US in a year, I may try true barefoot running.
Anyways, nice to meet you all.