Mark Sisson

So I would have been good at it because the longer the distance was, the more efficient I was.

You know, I was not a very strong runner.

I was quite strong as a 10K runner, but marathon was a much better distance for me because I could maintain such a high level of my aerobic capacity for a long period of time.

So I think I would have been good at ultras.

And now with the new

equipment that they have.

I have a lot of friends who are wearing my shoes, training in my shoes for ultras, and then wearing their special trail shoes.

But doing nine-hour rucking in the mountains over steep terrain, wearing the paloovas, wearing the toe shoes.

So, because that's what I thought, that was your whole movement, primal, this, that.

they never got around to.

So I said to myself, well, I'll do this myself.

They are?

This is actual leather, yeah.

Oh, because they're actually cute.

Well, at some point, we're going to encourage running in these, but it's such a long transition.

When you go from wearing restrictive footwear that's thick and cushiony and encapsulates and encases the feet, and you don't work the small muscles of your feet.

Right, absolutely.

Atrophies.

The muscles of your feet actually atrophy.

And so what happens is you put all that pressure and all the burden on the ankles and the knees and the hips.