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In 1997, John Vonhof published the first edition of Fixing Your Feet: Prevention and Treatment for Athletes. There are several foot books out there, but John's is unique because it's written for endurance athletes who travel by foot. John has been trail running and participating in ultra marathons since 1982. In 1987, he and Will Uher speed packed the 211-mile John Muir Trail in 8.5 days. In 1992, he made a career change to the medical field and has volunteered his feet-fixing services at numerous endurance competitions throughout North and South America.
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Review of Fixing Your Feet: Prevention and Treatments for Athletes by John Vonhof
The book is great and an ebook is available on kindle (there's free kindle readers for PCs, smart phones and tablets as well as kindles). It'd be worth putting it on your phone for any long hike.
His website has a lot of the info in the book and is worth looking at:
http://www.fixingyourfeet.com/
based upon my reading only the 1st edition of his book, and now this review, i suspect that Vonhof may (no disrespect intended) be overly invested in his theory of random variability of foot failure.
i based this on my own suffering and experience concerning the impressive rate at which foot fungus can propagate. i would propose that a solid percentage of seemingly random skin failures under athletic duress are due not to unknown causes, but to fungus growth at unexpected rates.
the enemy of reliable production quality is (excluding management and the government) dysfunctional variability. so any time we (as producers) can reign in a variable or two, that's generally a good thing. considering fungus, i think the author gives insufficient weight to how bewilderingly fast that stuff can multiply given ideal conditions.
other that that one tiny little thing, Buy the Book !
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