Barefoot - Day 1

I've decided to give barefooting a try. All I've read and felt indicates it's going to be a process. I'll be writing this series of posts in order to help me keep track of my progress and also, in case I succeed, to help other people do it ---or in case I fail, to dissuade them from trying. Today was not the first time I walked the 15 minutes that separate my house from my workplace barefoot. Last time must have been Monday, or maybe Sunday? I can't remember. Anyways, my inability to keep track my memory is one of the reasons why I'm writing this series.

I've been doing this for maybe a month now, so this is actually not day 1, call it so though I may. One of the things I've figured is I can't do this every day (yet?). The walk on the abrasive asphalt rubs the skin on the soles of my feet a bit thinner, to the point that I can feel it on the walk back by the end of the day. It's a bit like how your hands feel after a day climbing on abrasive rock. They need a little rest before you can do more of it.

My big toes crackle a bit when I'm walking barefoot. That worries me a bit, even though everything I've been able to read on the Internet about crackling toes said I shouldn't. I used to feel a little pain on the big toes' joints after walking without shoes, which I would associate with the crackling. Now I'm not feeling that pain as often, but my toes still crackle. Maybe these things were indeed not related.

I've gone through a lot of different walking gaits too. Experimentation. What I've been doing more of more recently is trying to walk as relaxed as possible. I think of loosening up to my jawbone to help me do it. It seems to work. Maybe my big toes joints hurt before because I was walking too tense.

A lot of maybes.