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We have had previous threads on the Nike Free running shoe and many on barefoot running. Recently the term 'minimalist' has crept in to the running shoe vernacular to describe the use of the Nike Free, similar shoes and the use of racing flats as the training shoe.

Here is a 20 minute audio from Running Times:
http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=14220

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Are You Running in Too Much Shoe?
Informed opinion on the benefits and risks of running in as little shoe as possible
By Scott Douglas
As featured in the RT Radio issue of Running Times Magazine

It features an interview with 3 people: a running shoe owner; a marathon runner who is a 'minimalist'; and podiatrist, Brian Fullem.

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Re: Minimalist running shoes

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Re: Minimalist running shoes

Transitioning to Less Shoe

http://blip.tv/file/3311599

If you want to make the switch to running in less shoe, what's the best way to go about doing so? Sport podiatrist Brian Fullem points the way. (6:55)

Podcast from Running Times

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Shoes of our Youth

Here is a great article showing "minimalist shoes" from as early as the 1930s. Why do the barefoot runners think they are the ones that invented lightweight running shoes????

http://runningtimes.com/Print.aspx?articleID=16929

I raced in the Tiger Jayhawk (I won a pair of them in my first marathon at age 17) and the photo below is me running in my Tiger X-Calibur GTs on top of the parking garage at the California College of Podiatric Medicine in 1984. Great memories from great shoes.

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