Following my first barefoot marathon, I decided that I wanted to be able to run on any surface barefoot, without the want or need of any footwear. This especially included technical trails. I have read all I could on barefoot running and most authors take the route of ease and slow adjustment. While I agree with this route, I feel that I have nearly 30 years of barefoot experience missed that I want to catch up on. If I never wore shoes, where would my feet be today? This served as motivation to start a new experiment, to see if I can speed up my return to nature process. But the difficulty is in the fact there is little information out there to accomplish this. I also feel that the stronger the feet we have, the easier the burden on the rest of the body, reducing injury even further. It is my ground up approach. I believe this due to my own experiences not being a small person. I have big strong feet due to my minimalist running and genetics, as well as big calf muscles. I feel both of these have been the key to my ease of running ultra marathons with little to no training and I’m looking to further this theory with some experimentation. And so it begins… Continue reading →