Barefoot Runner – Running Barefoot, Natural Running & Healthy Living

This is the story of how taking off my shoes changed my life for the better. In a way, it is the story of my life, so it is a bit long, but I hope your readers will identify with bits or pieces of it. I know I’m no poster child for your movement. I’m [...]

Humans have been barefoot for several million years (~2 million actually). It means that our bare feet have the ability to carry us around on all kinds of surfaces – hard ones as well as soft ones. It means that we have the ability to adapt ourselves to our surroundings.

I couldn’t resist to expose these ‘Pogo-stick meets high-heel’ shoes. Z-Coil states that their shoes incorporate “patented, shock-absorbing design greatly reduces impact to the body and distributes pressure more evenly across the foot than conventional shoes do. And less impact means less pain.” These things are totally ridiculous and dangerous to boot. Does the company [...]

I love the feeling of moving through life without shoes. It is like you have added a whole new part of your body to caress your surroundings with. Shopping barefoot is such a joyous experience. Green bags in hand I hop into the car. The feeling of the mat on the floor is coarse and [...]

When you start running barefoot the sole of your foot seems to get tender very quickly and for me it has meant a reduction in training miles.

I boil the kettle and throw some Earl Grey leaves into a pot. The steam rises and the leaves steep into a brew.

I lean back into my chair and put my feet up. The contrast of the cup and saucer and my dirty bare feet amuses me.

The tea tastes good.

While there is no way to avoid problems in our lives there’s certainly a power we possess as humans to push forward through challenges and move on from perceived failures. That’s just it, it is how we PERCEIVE failure that makes the difference.

Don’t know what to say when asked about being barefoot? Here are 37 to try on for size!

I don’t know why, but I was expecting something truly amazing with the release of ECCO’s new BIOM shoe. How could I not? Their thebiomproject website shouted “everything you know about shoes is wrong”. Although just a few weeks back they changed their copy to, well, better reflect the final product. Perhaps for their existing [...]

Running is an interesting thing to me. I’ve been running for years. What kid doesn’t run? We run home for dinner, run during play and run to hide from the world. Running is part of the human experience. It is a necessity for hunting in many cultures, part of sexual experience in others, and in [...]