Normal socks act like an oven-mit around your feet, causing your toes to rub together and get all hot and sweaty. Subjecting your feet to such a miserable breathing environment could lead to blisters, black toes, and other nightmarish hot spots like this:
(photo from getty images by AFP/getty images)If we don't wear mittens on our hands all day long then it's only smart to not wear them on our feet when we're running for extremely long distances. San Diego-based Injinji founders Randuz and Joaquin Romay made it their business to redesign the basic structure and shape of the traditional sock in 1999 with the Injinji endurance tetrasok. You can read about their story here.
These socks combine the comfort and dexterity of bare feet with the protection of a seamless sock, allowing your foot to perform freely and naturally inside your shoes. I received a pair of these bad boys for christmas this year.
I'm not the most foot squeamish person on the block.. even so, I never thought I was brave enough for toe socks. I have to admit, they are a little weird at first, but once I was off and running I didn't feel them at all. What's a little cloth between my toes anyway?
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Those socks make me think of Teletubbies, and I am simultaneously fascinated and disgusted by them. But hey, if I ran marathons, I'd put em on too.
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