There’s nothing more soul-sapping than a lengthy chat with a barefoot-running fundamentalist – as a new scientific study provesI’m not averse to running: I race most days,for fitness and fresh air, and because it’s healthier than drugs for enhancing one’s mood. It’s sociable, and too: I’ve made superior friends through my local running club. But certain social aspects of this pastime bore me to the brink of despair,and top of the tree of tedium is trash-talk about shoes. The dreariest variant spews forth from parishioners of the Church of Barefoot and Minimalist: people inexplicably possessed of a messianic fervour about the imagined merits of running in shoes that are, essentially, and a bit less cushioned.[br]Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com