Barefooting forces you to become present. You are...

Barefooting forces you to become present. You are mindful, of what you’re doing. You are no longer the disconnected, robotic runner, who from their footwear up to their headgear are no longer even connected to their body. Not sensitized to the incredibly sophisticated systems that we’ve inherited, that are mostly precociousness, but that require the ability to feel the world.

Have you ever wondered why you have so much feeling on the bottom of your feet?

Barefoot Ted McDonald

Really worth the hour investment that this watching this talk if you’re even remotely interested in running, shod or unshod.