I hope this isn't too weird a thought but it is based on an article I was reading in Bella yesterday. The article was about a woman who had had to have all her toes amputated after she'd had meningitis. She had run marathons before but the article said she would never run again. Do the same people who make other artificial legs for runners not have anything similar to compensate for toe-less feet? Would it be too difficult to make? A colleague is intending to run a half marathon next year, and I think he will be getting a special leg fitted for that, so I wondered about the toes! Am I just being prurient?
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Reinhold Messner, the famous Austrian mountaineer, lost all his toes from one foot due to frostbite in the high Himalayas.
His major conquests continued:
first ascent of Everest without oxygen,
And a speed record solo ascent of Everest (of course it was without oxygen) in under 24 hours.
AHA! I hear you say. That's not running in flimsy trainers though.
OK, but a bit more prosaic: a chap who lives mear me has beaten me 3 times in 3 attempts at the Stroud Half Marathon. He has no lower leg at all. The prosthetic is a nice piece of sprung carbon fibre. I'm going to have to beat him this year, but he keeps getting better (sub 1:30).
I think it would be very very hard to run without toes.
He still gets around just fine.
Hmm, we still need someone to answer the no toes/running conundrum though.
http://www.opma.on.ca/_pforum/00000030.htm
.. which might answer your question!
Or then again, it might not
Must investigate later.
No toes must be some other area of interest for a select few me thinks...
Can't answer the question btw! Sorry...
H x
But doesn't answer the question sadly.