Did you ever end up getting these? I too am curious about them for my own Camino as the other shoes I got aren't as I hoped.
Hi,
I bought them but read afterwards that you really need to walk with barefoot/minimalist shoes for at least 3 moths as there is hardly any coushinging support and a lot of your muscles haven’t been working at all if you been walking with normal shoes with sole.
So I bought a pair of normalish looking barefoot shoes to train the feet/muscles and interesting enough the on/off light knee pain I had for several years, lower back issues, kind of weak hip on left side and other small things started to disappear. After a month which was in June this year all those issues are gone. So I ditched the normal shoes and just been using Barefoot shoes since May this year and have had zero issues with my knee, hip or back. Everything feels super strong and I don’t exercise at all. I know this is a bit off topic, but using bearfoot shoes helped me so much, and I anyone have kind of smiliar issues, try using this kind of shoes instead of spending money on physio/chiro like I did.
Now back to topic. Just before I did the Camino this year I realized that the Trail glove 4 I bought was actually womens version. But had another pair of bearfoot running shoes and took them with me. I started in Astorga and after 3 day my feet were really soar tbh, all the down to the bone. Guess I wasn’t trained/fit enough. So took 2 days rest and bought adidas Pure Boost DPR that I used for the rest of the trip. I really appreciated the cushioning but would not recommend those for camino.
If you are fit and used to barefoot shoes, it should be ok I guess. After a lot of reading I think my next camino will be in Altras lone peak, same principal as barefoot shoes, like wide toe box, zero drop sole but good cushioning. This helps reduce the foot fatigue which is good if you want to do 25-30 km a day, that what they say anyway. A lot of people on camino forums rave about them.
Sorry if the answer was a bit long