The Boot…….Plus A Cool Quote

I like to ski.  I really like to ski.  One of the benefits of skiing (in addition to it being fun all on its own) is that fantastic feeling you get at the end of the day when you take your boots off.  Your feet are finally free after a day of being locked up in ski boots.

Well – from a glass half full perspective – I get the pleasure of having that great feeling in my feet every day.  Unfortunately it’s not coming with the fun of skiing.  The (walking) boot is – well – the boot.  After being fixated on minimalist / no shoes for so long walking (clunking) around in this thing is quite the experience.  My son came up from the basement after my first day in the thing and said smiling “Well – I’m always going to know exactly where you are in the house.”

I got into this thing 1.5 weeks ago.  The plan is for me to be in it 1.5 weeks more.  Unfortunately, things don’t feel totally better.  I wonder if I’m heading for a cast.

On another note – I received an email today from a guy who had a great quote in his signature.  How perfect for those of us that like the minimalist/barefoot mindset:

Fixation is the way to death.  Fluidity is the way to life.
-- Miyamoto Musashi

Here is to more fluidity in our lives.

Jim

Hop-Along Cassidy

Well - since i said I was going in for an MRI - I guess I should report the results.

Calcaneal Stress Reaction.  Walking boot for 3 weeks.  It could be worse:

• If the stress reaction was more severe I'd be in a cast.
• At least I can take the boot off and move the foot around.
• Moving around isn't too bad.
• I can swim.  Not being able to do at least that would have been a problem.

One kind of comical outcome:  They recommend wearing a shoe with a heel on the non-booted foot to help even out the pelvis.  I used to have so many shoes I didn't know what to do with them.  Since going more minimal I've pitched almost all of them.  I had to dig around in my closet to find my lone remaining pair of "high heeled sneakers".

Lomad (a user on the Runner's World and Barefoot Runner's Society forums) unfortunately has a stress fracture and is in a boot.  He recently posted a one-line "product review" of his walking boot which I found appropriate and very hilarious:

"It sucks."

Jim