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If someone (myself) is usually barefoot anyway, is there any point of getting frees? I don't run barefoot (except with my dogs) and around home never have on shoes.

[the430miler]

If someone (myself) is usually barefoot anyway, is there any point of getting frees? I don't run barefoot (except with my dogs) and around home never have on shoes.
anyone who buys frees will get injured within a short time period. anyone who wears nike frees needs to immediately go and buy the brooks beast and dont take them off for a month, so your feet can regenerate and your injuries will not dominate you.

[ZackCampbell]

anyone who buys frees will get injured within a short time period. anyone who wears nike frees needs to immediately go and buy the brooks beast and dont take them off for a month, so your feet can regenerate and your injuries will not dominate you.

I know people who train full time in Frees and have not been injured at all.

[Paul Banks]

For you, No there is no point in buying frees other than style purposes. For people that want to do striders barefoot, but live some where with alot of pavement or debris, the Free is very sensible. Yes it is true you get injured, I just started to wear them again, and i feel some shin splints coming on.

[mwfroshxc]

anyone who buys frees will get injured within a short time period. anyone who wears nike frees needs to immediately go and buy the brooks beast and dont take them off for a month, so your feet can regenerate and your injuries will not dominate you.


I've been wearing frees for over a year, and guess what... no injuries.


-KOB

[AnchorMan]

I've been wearing frees for over a year, and guess what... no injuries.


-KOB

QFMFE....

[tmfcmike]

I've been wearing frees for over a year, and guess what... no injuries.


-KOB
dont listen to that idiot

[AnchorMan]

dont listen to that idiot

Quoted For False Information

[mwfroshxc]

dont listen to that idiot

:eek: I'm shocked, and offended...


edit: thanks brad

-KOB

[franklinrome]

For you, No there is no point in buying frees other than style purposes. For people that want to do striders barefoot, but live some where with alot of pavement or debris, the Free is very sensible. Yes it is true you get injured, I just started to wear them again, and i feel some shin splints coming on.
ive worn frees for two years now

not one injury

[BexRunner]

:eek: I'm shocked, and offended...
I think tmfcmike was refering to the430miler (who really needs to quit dyestat) and life
BTownrunna - was that a joke?

[U-villeXC]

You guys who wear frees must do like 5-12 mpw....those shoes are for the rich who think they have good running shoes if they have frees.....go out and buy Brooks Trance 6's or Brooks Beast just so your feet can recover from the constant extra pounding you put on them from wearing frees.

[franklinrome]

You guys who wear frees must do like 5-12 mpw....those shoes are for the rich who think they have good running shoes if they have frees.....go out and buy Brooks Trance 6's or Brooks Beast just so your feet can recover from the constant extra pounding you put on them from wearing frees.


yea frees cost 18 million dollars a shoe only a rich person could buy a pair

[spacePeAnUt7]

to me, the frees feel just like any other shoe, but lighter and more comfortable. i've always felt that with "normal" running shoes i can't run the way that i do naturally. i feel like i'm STOMPING on the ground.

the reason i tried the frees in the first place is because many times when i used to go on runs with regular running shoes, the whole time i would just think about how i wish i could take them off. sometimes i felt like i had bricks on my feet and i couldn't move around. sometimes my ankles and feet would get numb because i could never get the shoelaces tied right. i don't ever get that uncomfortable feeling with the frees.

just so i don't sound too obsessed, i do run with asics once in a while because that's the only brand of regular running shoes that i find to be okay. but i still like the frees better. this is strictly MY OPINION.

by the way, if you people are getting injured so easily, you are either running with really bad form or you are just really injury-prone. we're young, it shouldn't be that easy to get injured. with proper rest and recovery, our bodies can take a lot more than most of you think. JUST RUN and let your feet breathe! if you have interest in the frees, give them a try. if you like them, then train in them! if you don't, then atleast you gave them a try.

[fortyozslushie]

I've run over 1000 miles in my nike frees, a majority of that on pavement/road and guess what. Not one injury. zero.

[the430miler]

For you, No there is no point in buying frees other than style purposes. For people that want to do striders barefoot, but live some where with alot of pavement or debris, the Free is very sensible. Yes it is true you get injured, I just started to wear them again, and i feel some shin splints coming on.
AMEN :)

[Transient]

For several weeks now I've been running well over 100 miles a week in a pair of frees. Anything from 1000 repeats to 22 mile runs, and plenty of runs on the city streets.

[Ruth Wysocki]

I've worn Frees for all my running for over a year now. I run 50+ miles per week and almost all of it is on asphalt or sidewalk and hilly. I do some sort of hard running twice a week (fartlek, LT, etc). I will never wear anything else. After several years of calf problems, I have not had any problem at all since wearing the Frees. Problem is, with Nike, that every time I find a shoe I really like, they either discontinue it or change it. Saw the new Frees in a store yesterday, and they are not quite the same.

[middledistanceanonymous]

Look, I might be really ignorant and really wrong about this, but I thought the point of the Nike Free was almost to give you injuries. From what I've heard, running barefoot (or with the shoe) was meant to strengthen the muscles (like the tibialis anterior, the injury of which is generally a shin splint) that aren't usually worked in normal trainers. I figured they're meant for short, summer runs for the purpose of preventing injuries during the season.

[redhookxc]

ive got over 1500 miles on my frees from running on the roads/treadmill w/o any problems

[fortyozslushie]

Sounds like the frees are good for people with at least decent form.

[Warrior Carnage]

Most of the people that are injured are probably not easing into it like they should be...

[the430miler]

If someone (myself) is usually barefoot anyway, is there any point of getting frees? I don't run barefoot (except with my dogs) and around home never have on shoes.
i highly recommend running in nike frees; especially if you want to break all of the bones in your feet due to lack of pillow cushioning., or if you want to waste money and terminate your running career indefinately.

[HINKLO]

If someone (myself) is usually barefoot anyway, is there any point of getting frees? I don't run barefoot (except with my dogs) and around home never have on shoes.

Barefoot is better than frees simply put. Say you have a flight simluation. Yeah, it gives you the expierience, but it still isn't the real deal. Same thing with the frees simulating barefoot running. If you're running barefoot normally, there's no real reason to purchase them.

[franklinrome]

i highly recommend running in nike frees; especially if you want to break all of the bones in your feet due to lack of pillow cushioning., or if you want to waste money and terminate your running career indefinately.

yea i heard 140 people broke their feet yesterday in a race that only allowed people to use frees