Defending against trail grit and grass seeds by using AR Gaiters is good practice. Preparing your feet pre-event and keeping them in good condition is another must-do. This includes removing calluses, which is essential to good foot care (like trimming your toenails). Continue reading →

You’ve put in weeks of training and preparation ensuring that your legs will hold up to hour after hour on the bike and trekking up hills. You’ve worked your upper body, ensuring that you’ll have the strength for climbing, rope ascents and paddling. But now, 3hrs into the race, you’ve developed developed a niggling blister on your little toe and heel. By the end of the day you’ve got blisters on both feet and the one on your heel has popped and is raw. By the middle of the second day your feet are so blistered and so sore that you can hardly walk… you’re really not enjoying this race. Familiar? Continue reading →

“Having severely macerated feet is not a badge of courage. It’s a sign that you could have made better earlier choices in foot care,” says foot-care guru, John Vonhof, author of ‘Fixing Your Feet’. Continue reading →

Foot guru and author of ‘Fixing your Feet‘, John Vonhof, worked on feet at the 55-mile aid station and the finish line at the 2014 Western States 100 (and many others). He saw many cases of foot maceration. In this blog post from July 2014, John offers some insight into the cause of this condition and how to prevent and deal with it. Continue reading →

In his most recent blog post, foot-care guru John Vonhof, neatly summarises 12 key points about foot care. He wrote this the week before heading off to tend to feet at the Western States 100. John’s points apply as much to 100-milers as to adventure races. Continue reading →