Just got back from an hour and half of walking/jogging. This is the third time I’ve gone out for a barefoot walk, and I can tell it is starting to toughen up a bit. However, when the feet get tired, it can be painful to get back home.

There is this gravel road that I walk on half way through, and boy is it painful. But pain isn’t a bad thing. It teaches me to walk differently, to distribute my weight better. It’s too painful to run on yet. I can’t wait to learn how to run on such a painful surface, I’m sure it will teach me a lot about how to run properly and distribute my weight effectively.

I get so excited about walking around barefoot, and I take off my shirt when nobody is around too. Barefooting it is so much simpler, so much lighter. No need to worry about shoes and socks and all those encumbrances. Heck, most of the time a guy only needs a pair of shorts, now that’s freedom!

My goal is to keep doing this and become a tanned greek god. Also, I’d like to do some hiking barefoot this summer.

Today I went for a long walk barefoot, I even ran a bit. It was a bit painful walking over asphalt, pebbles, gravel, but I survived with no cuts. The feet are over-sensitive from lack of use.

Why am I going barefoot? Mainly because it is the natural thing to do. Our bodies are the products of thousands of years of evolution, shoes have only been around for a tiny fraction of that. I discovered that shoes change the gait a huge amount, resulting in heel-first walking/running. I always thought heel-first was normal. How wrong I was.

Just look at this video:
Gait changed by shoes

For a good overview of shoes vs barefoot:
The painful truth about trainers

barefoot 101