I went running wearing my brand new, home made Huaraches today. First it felt really wierd. I could actually feel that my feet and legs, especially the right one, where crocked. My right knee was sort of bent inwards and the foot twisted clockwise, making it really hard to run and look remotely sane at the sam time. What was going on!? After a short while the feet and legs sorted them self out and started behaving normally again.

Or did they? Or is it, or was, up til right now, a normal condition for my feet to be "supported" by custom moulded, arch supporting, pronation compensating high-tech sneakers, so "supported" they actually had been disconnected from the job they where supposed to do: Feel the ground and give me feedback on what's down there. For the first time in a very long time my feet where actually feeding me information! And the information was being used by my brain to calibrate what the feet where up to. All of a sudden, the positions they had getting used to assume when running was plainly wrong.

After a couple of km, I concluded that, allthough better than wearing shoes, the Huaraches I'd made wasn't giving the effect I hoped fore. They where simply too thick to let me feel the ground properly. I stuck the sandals in my hand and run barefoot all the way home. It fealt great!

The lessons learned from todays run are:

- Use thin sandals. Im going to peel off three out of four layers from my former flip-flops, hope it'll give the effect I want.

- I think, and will of course try the theory, that a piece of leather would be optimal for feet coverage. The leather is thin enough to let the foot feel the ground properly, yet sturdy enough to protect your feet from sharp stuff on the ground.

- When running on asfalt without shoes, the ancle muscles work a lot. Ouch, now I can allmost walk again.