Going unshod
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Walking
tips
• Plant your feet, never allowing them to kick, drag or shuffle. • Focus your eyes two to three paces down the trail, stopping to look at anything off the path. • Keep your weight on the balls of your feet, not on the heels — which don't absorb shocks as well. • Make a habit of awareness, treading lightly and sometimes warily and tentatively — and, when moving around obstacles, deliberately.
Source:
www.unshod.org
Top spots • Blackhand Gorge State Nature Preserve, Licking County • Clear Creek Metro Park, northern Hocking and southern Fairfield counties • Glen Helen Nature Preserve, Yellow Springs • Great Seal State Park, Chillicothe • Hocking Hills State Park, Logan • Wildcat Hollow hiking trail, Wayne National Forest, southeastern Ohio
Source:
Barefoot Hikers of Central Ohio
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