Loose the shoes!
Before we begin, Take OFF that FOOTWEAR! If you want to take baby steps in your transition to Running Barefoot, fine. But, no baby, I’ve ever seen, was born wearing protective footwear, so they could run further, before they learned HOW to run - before their bare feet were strong enough for running! If your bare feet aren’t currently tough enough to run a mile while barefoot, then DON’T run a mile barefoot, not yet! If you wear some kind of minimalist, or “transitional” footwear, before you have had the advantage of LEARNING how to run while actually barefoot, you’re just asking for problems – problems that occur when we try to do too much, too soon – when we protect our sensitive soles from telling us how to run more gently, or when it’s time to stop for the day - problems that occur when we’re still running with bad technique, but without the support provided by those big clunky shoes that allowed us to learn how to run badly. It’s a lot easier to LEARN to sing on-key, when we aren’t wearing earplugs, to block the pain of listening to ourselves singing off-key!
