About 15 years ago, the last trend of the tennis industry was minimalism. Influenced by the book “Born for Running” by the American Christopher McDougall, the marks were sweating to change damping for lightness and flexibility. Adding the two things would be for the future.
In his book, McDougall featured the natural race of the Tarahumaras, or Rarámuris (something like “light feet”), inhabitants of Mexico’s spawned border with the United States. They put a rustic sandal to protect their feet on their endless races, used as a modal transport.
At the same time, the author inferred that the running injuries were due to the excessive cushioning of sneakers, inducer of the weakening of the foot muscles.
McDougall concluded that he was doing well and was not injured who almost nothing was taking to the feet, just a skin protection.
The history of branding in the future may dedicate a few paragraphs at this time, as it had value added to the product that could approach the essential shoes, such as the Huaraches, the artisanal sandals of the Tarahumaras.
I don’t like tall soles, and it is virtually impossible today to find some tennis that has no sole of at least two centimeters high. My paradigm is the first edition at Nike Free, without Drop, which piped like a sock; I didn’t even use the already anachronistic Five Fingers, a real foot glove.
Even with the lightness of current running sneakers, I can’t like the clogs that the industry implies us. Hence this Sunday (28) I radicalized, I decided to run barefoot, something I did very shortly before, only 20 minutes through the CEPEUSP dirt trail and much before, in adolescence, a few kilometers in a paulistana half marathon, when I left my tight Daytona Tennis (or would it be a kichute?).
Now the conversation was different: 10 km by the huge express track of Marginal Pinheiros, in São Paulo, the scenario of the Plié clothing brand test.
Perhaps to handle the immense wagon charge, that surface is too rough, something it didn’t count on. My feet only found some relief in the dotted stretches that interrupted rapidly.
He knew, however, that the sacrifice would soon be the same rhythm as a 10 km or 15 km evidence, albeit footwear: on the stick. And it was for that, by the way, that I was now running in the marginal.
It is not worth describing the moment when my left sock won the third hole and the right foot, the bubble; I’m going straight to what matters, my pace (average pace) Final: 4min37.
I compare this pace of two recent races, when I wore carbon plate shoes: the August Room Marathon, August, my best Pace for each of the two 10.5 km stretches was 4min40; And at the Florianópolis Half Marathon, in May, when I lay the hair: 4min33.
Plate sneakers, as we know, is sold as Abracadabra for the amateur who imagines Usain Bolt. It offers what the industry calls responsiveness, more displacement force at the moment the foot touches the ground.
I do not recommend to anyone to run barefoot, but if the idea is to save a few hundred reais without a great loss of speed, this Sunday has shown that Tarahumaras sandals, or something that is already good.
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