You could just get very flat shoes with no support/heel. I know a few 
ppl who run in 'water shoes', cheapy things. Or you can work your feet 
in slowly by going for short walks barefoot. A friend of mine did that, 
and is now trail running in bare feet - he's in his 60's.

Robert Kesterson wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:40:43 -0500, Padraig Hogan 
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> You live IN a forest? Well I have to say that's pretty paleo man 
>> alright. :P
>
> Well, in a house in a forest.  :-)
>
>> Have you even tried doing it a number of times? It can't be that much
>> different to paleo man... and paleo man wouldn't have picked out the 
>> neatest path every time and been exceptionally careful about where he 
>> was going.
>
> True, but he also didn't wear shoes from birth, so he would have had 
> lots more callouses than I do.
>
>> Dammit, now I'm in two minds again. I don't know whether to get these 
>> (which would probably work out over $100 for me) or not. To me they 
>> seem like a fad and a pair of Irish dancing shoes... from other 
>> Amazon customers as well I just got the impression that they're 
>> preying on people desperate to be paleo.
>
> They're the closest I can get to barefoot while still having some 
> protection.  They also let me go into places that say "shoes and shirt 
> required", when I make the trip into town.  :)
>
>> In the meantime, are they really worth it? Or would that money be 
>> better off going to the orangutans etc.
>
> What's an orangutan going to do with money?  :-)
>
> It just depends on your situation.  To me, they were money well spent.
>
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