St Swithin's Day and beyond

[Sweder]

Excellent stuff SW. Your caution over BF running is well founded. I've managed to bruise both feet on recent excursions (running on flint-strewn downland that's always a possibility). Vibrams have launched a more rugged set for offroaders but I singularly failed to buy a pair whilst States-side last month. They're waay too expensive over here at the moment.

I firmly believe there is something to be gained by adopting some of the barefoot strategies whilst remaining fully shod. Reading that book in the weeks before Connemara helped me no end, even though I wore (brand new) road shoes the whole way.