Also be careful how rapidly you try to bring about biomechanical changes in your walking, especially if you’re expecting the shoes to do the bulk of the work. The more you concentrate on eliminating heel strike and working on moving a toe->heel stride the better off you’ll be.

Barefooting is awesome though, I’m a big big fan.

We’re really enjoying getting out & walking more…and the fact that the Vibrams protect our feets so that we can do so practically barefoot are absolutely awesome. We’ve been doing a bit of a shoe purge around here & trying to get back to basics, one might say
I’ll keep an eye out for the socks, though we felt pretty lucky to just find the shoes!

I really like the way you’ve set up the blog vs. lifestream aspects. In fact, I was going to do something involving the “Advanced Category Excluder” plugin to get the lifestream off the front page. I like your link to it at the top though – I will be adding that after the links are off.

Yes, I think that I, too, will have to start following folks on Twitter where possible. I’m glad you were able to get your lifestream to behave! I have to admit that social-network-wrangling can be a full time job if you let it. Too bad it doesn’t pay the bills!
– Maire