Barefoot Runners   VFF Pain (Read 301 times)      I have been
trying to slowly increase my barefoot/minimalist running.  I
would love to just go BF, but it is kind of cold right now in
Massachusetts.  When I can, I do - like at lunch time when the
sun is shining, the sun usually keeps the pavement at a decent
temp for BF running.  But in the morning, the ground is pretty
freaking cold.       so, the other day I donned my VFF KSOs for
a half mile run and I noticed that the main part of the ball of
my foot (right below the big toe) hurt when I ran with the KSOs
on.  After a 1/4 mile I turned around and took them off and ran
back and the pain wasnt nearly as severe when I was BF - though
the cold ground got to me by the end of the 1/4 mile.  I wrote
it off as a bruise or something that I didnt know about.
But then today again I put them on for a 3/4 mile run and had
the same pain in the same place.  Is there a thicker section of
rubber on that part of the foot or something that is hitting my
foot.  I dont