Hi, I have another question: as you know I'm walking and running barefoot since a few weeks, but on two spots a pain has developed, it's on the balls of the...
It's wonderful how life is a learning process. What I've recently learned is that I'm not to old yet to keep from making bone-headed mistakes. My way of...
Just a comment about you not being a hard core runner. Galloway has a book on running where in it he suggests about 35 miles a week possibly being an optimal...
... I think it is about time you did pursue your baseball career, before you get too young. Basically, it sounds like you have bruised your toe. This should...
... I'm guessing that you mean to grab the pen "using your toes" so that you can exercise this area of the foot? If you have been used to wearing shoes, your...
Just thought I'd chirp in with a bit of commiseration. I've been experiencing the same problem, but I've been running barefoot for over two years now, mostly...
Life / running is a funny thing. I was happily running along without a care. Then suddenly my calf started to play up. There seemed to be a build up of scar...
To add to my original message. I have had a couple of 10km runs now and all is going well. I think the act of trying to place my foot as softly as possible...
... Makes all sorts of sense. "Land gently, push hard" That is one of my new mantras for people who thing that running barefoot must really be tough with all...
Thanks Ken, I like that mantra it is simple and yet says it all. Interesting that it is only when I stopped thinking and started to listen did the answer...
thanks Ken, you seem to be a real "free thinker", because I came up with a nominalisation "splay foot", a sort of frozen state, whereas it is actually the...
HI, is it also possible to run on paths with rocky, sharp pebbles (I don't know the english word for this, but you know here they sometimes harden the forest...
... Yes, the english word for this, or the one I use, is INDUSTRIAL GRAVEL. Most people just call it gravel. But it has nothing even slightly natural looking...
... Somewhere on the RunnersWorld.com website, there is a feature about traveling through Kenya and the author was amazed that the local children would run...
Hi, a new dis-covery is the ball/heel/ball landing like you call it here. I had during my first five weeks of barefoot running "pain spots", especially in my...
I couldn't find any discussion of so-called "stone bruises." Anyone else got one? Mine seem(s) to linger at least dormantly forever. Originally stepped on a...
I discovered Ken's site and barefoot living in March of this year and have been walking, running, and hiking barefoot since. My feet are never as tough as I'd...
although it's not barefoot running, MBT shoes are a therapeutic device, althouhg thy look like shoes and cure may running injuries, look at the website (some...
Hey all, This was supposed to be a short message to let you all know how I'm doing and to give some comments on messages received while I was in Oregon. ...
Congratulations on your posted feat (i'm sufficiently new at this that I couldn't resist what is probably an old pun for you oldtimers) Maybe the lack of...
Scott, your "feat" pun was way better than the popular pun for shod runners, "the agony of de feet". No connection between Morton's toe and your lasting stone...
"Feets don't fail me: taking care of your toes" (September "Trail Runner" @ p. 26). Morton's Neuroma is a thickening of the nerve between the third and fourth ...
i just can't figure my feet (they're harder to interpret sometimes than my wife). the weather cleared and i snuck in a 5 miler last evening (just enough light...
The most common pain in runners, we often call kidney pain, is actually caused by two things. The first is simply being out of shape. The second is eating too...
I had read before about someone being kicked off a United flight for being barefoot. I usually carry some sort of shoe when I travel anyway, but it was pretty...
Got my second sliver of glass this weekend. The first one a few months ago found a soft spot between my foot ball and toes. However, this one surprisingly...
When I was 14 (I am 38 now), I jumped off of the second story of a house (long story) and fractured one of the bones in my right arch. To this day, I have a...
What i would do, if i were you, is find a smooth asphalt track near where you live and start run/walking there, just a mile or 2 to start, once or twice a week...
