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I’ve said this before, but 2011 is going to be a very exciting year for minimalist style runners, and news like that about the hacked heel of the Fastwitch 5 makes me ever more confident that variety in shoe design and choice is only going to increase. Minimalism has found a firm place in the Nike Air Max 90 Mujer running shoe market, and Nike Air VaporMax Femme though it might not be for everyone, it’s nice that those of us who are proponents of a less-is-more approach to footwear will have even more options going forward.I bought a pair of Kinvaras based on your positive review. Altough the low heel drop did feel super nice I didn’t like the pointy toebox. Wow they are super syper narrow around the toes. I can’t see how the toes can splay at all in these shoes I am looking for a shoe for my long runs as an alternative to my 5Finger Bikilas. Are all Saucony shoes narrow and pointy?As I have posted previously here on Runblogger, the Saucony Peregrine is a lightweight, 4mm drop trail shoe set to be released in early 2011. Details about the shoe have been hard to come by, but a reader (thanks Spyros!) recently passed along a link to a video review of the Peregrine www.artealjabiri.de by Tridudes. Thought I’d Nike Air Max 1 Dames share (see below) – looks like a potentially solid competitor to the New Balance 101 (which I just broke down and purchased after hearing so many positive things – first trail run in them was excellent!) and soon to arrive New Balance Minimus Trail in the lightweight, low-drop trail shoe category. With Merrell also set to release their Merrell Barefoot line of zero-drop trail shoes, next year looks to be an exciting one for minimalist trail runners!I’ve recently begun to notice a change in how people are defining the minimalist running movement. No longer is it just about the shoes (or barefooting for that matter) – rather, people are beginning to emphasize that although minimalist shoes and barefoot running are important, their true value lies in the fact that they can act as tools to help you achieve www.armagilus.fr better running form. Even Nike Air Max 270 Femme barefoot proponent and “Born to Run” author Christopher McDougall is pushing the “form-first” mantra,“I’m more interested in the future of running form. I couldn’t care less what people wear; I’m more concerned about what they do. For too long, all we’ve heard about is what to buy; what’s been missing from the conversation has been how to run properly. I’m convinced that the next big wave in running won’t be footwear, but a surge in running coaches who teach proper, gentle, barefoot-style form.”“…the secret to injury-free running isn’t the proper shoe. It isn’t stretching. It isn’t even training mileage. It’s skill. Like every other sport, healthy running is all about technique. But why hadn’t I ever heard that before? All I ever heard, over and over, was about shoes. Every Nike Air Max 90 Damen podiatrist, sports physician, Nike Air Max 90 Femme and running magazine preached Adidas Superstar Womens endlessly about the absolute necessity of corrective footwear. I was never told what to do; I was only told what to buy.”The thinking is that barefoot-style running form will allow you to run more efficiently and with less likelihood of sustaining a dreaded overuse injury. If there’s one thing that runners fear above all else, it’s an injury that prevents them from logging miles out on the road and trail. While the verdict is still out on whether all runners might benefit from changing form, my anecdotal experience in the form of receiving emails from readers is that changing running form has the power to allow at least some subset of formerly hobbled runners to run injury free – of this I am now 100% convinced.My own form change experiment has been both fun and fascinating, Nike Air Max 90 Herren and is still a work in Nike Air Max 270 Homme progress (probably always will be),Nike Air Max 270 Womens so I was excited and curious when I was contacted by Backbone Media and Velo Press about reviewing Danny Abshire’s new book called Natural Running (written with Brian Metzler of Running Times Magazine).If you don’t know Danny Abshire, he’s one of the cofounders of Newton Running, makers of the popular and pricey Newton brand of running shoes. Newton is unique in that their mission from the start (they were founded in 2007) was to produce shoes that fostered a natural running style.