Barefoot Running

Here is a great video of the "Barefoot Professor" talking about why it is healthier to run with a forefoot strike rather than a heel strike.

We have been doing all of our training so far in barefeet (actually with sock feet because we are running around the track at the Y and they don't allow barefeet - health stuff...).

We've had to take it easy because you can easily do too much too soon and strain your calf muscles and achilles tendons.  Since our feet have not had the opportunity to articulate and stretch in the natural way that you do when you run barefoot, the muscles and ligaments all the way up the calf are used in entirely new ways.

But running barefoot (or sockfooted) is a great way to actually FEEL the earth as you run.

But the best thing about it is that I feel like I'm about 8 years old.  There's a certain sense of freedom that comes with running barefoot!!!  Hard to explain.  You've just got to experience it!!