On Thursday I finally got my new shoes. I am being very liberal in my use of the word “shoe” though. These are the antithesis of shoe really, and can only really use the term as “thing that goes on my foot that isn’t a sock or boot”. These are shoes that do nothing to support the foot. The only thing they do is protect the bottom of the foot from sharp objects.
The point is to get the foot muscles working again. Our feet, apparently, have been coddled by being in shoes and have lost all their strength. And with their weakness, it passes on to other muscles that are then doing all the work. This leads to injury. Indigenous people who do a lot of running and do not have shoes do not have all the injuries that a modern runner gets.
They look freaky. They are brightly colored (orange) so they do attract attention.
They also feel very… sensual? Because each toe gets its own sleeve, they are getting more sensations than they are used to. It was weird driving a car with them, because my feet would wrap more around the pedal, and so my toes were feeling things they had never felt before.
Kinky!
I’m right now wearing them when I go out to get my feet used to them. Eventually I will start running in them. Hopefully on grass first, but it is hard to make that promise in a concrete wasteland.
In other foot news, I’ve decided to get a pedicure. I’m really not sure what the procedure is still, but I know it is a foot spa treatment. After all the abuse, I figure it would be nice to give something back to my feet.
And yes, I do realize this sounds very girly. But the person on the other end of the phone sounded like she has handled runners before. I’ll let you know how it works out.
I am of course going to have to express my manhood the entire time. But all I can think of is reading a manly news magazine instead of one of the women’s magazines that litter spas. That said, I want to get my money’s worth. Is part of the treatment getting nails painted? Do I say “no”? If I’ve paid for it, that doesn’t sound like the economical attitude.