Just run with completely naked feet!
I posted last Sunday on how I had just got some vivo barefoot shoes and how they were - i loved wearing them. I thought I had got a rubbed heel from them but no!
When I was running in them without socks for the full effect a bramble had leapt out from the hedge and triffid like wrapped around my ankle - I just ran out of it and ripped my ankle. It then over the next day or two swelled up - got inflamed and its trajectory became really clear - and I saw that the cut on my heel was not rubbed but bramble ripped. So shoes off the hook - i apologised to them.
But it meant I couldn't put shoes on all week - have been wearing clogs but no good for running. Today i was so ****ed off at not being able to run and not wanting to make my foot worse that I thought if i couldn't wear shoes I wouldn't and did the full barefoot whammy.
It was brilliant. No shoes at all. Walked 5 mins, ran for 1K feeling really good - it was amazing how well you could feel your foot working - and how easy to change my gait so it became silent and so much better - much more running on the mid to front of foot - loved it. I ran down a tarmac road - along a farm track using grass in middle as much as possible and looked forward to getting to the soft grassy riverside path. What I had never noticed was that said path has lots of very small very young very lively nettle plants all along it! Soooo I turned round and by now was doing quite a bit of walking between plants. So about 1K walking, 1K running, 1K walk/run and I loved it. It will do it again when i have found a better path - and i am sure it is a great thing to do to really find how your feet work and will help my running even in shoes. And it was just another way of making running interesting.
Barefoot running...
Barefoot Parkwalk
Shoe distress
My first major running injury 
