Today the temperature in Madrid is very high. More than 35 degrees in the shade. The hot pavement burns my feet with every step. 40 days ago that I do not wear shoes, but now the heat is very strong. My feet are burning.

My God! How can you walk barefoot on such burning hot pavement, and even stand on sizzling hot metal! Doesn't it hurt Cecilia, don't you mind? Don't you miss shoes in such hot weather?

Very well !
Probably your feet need to train to the hot,that probably need a quite different endurance from gravel path...
Endure and you will see that your feet will get used to it.

Be warned about the same problem of gravel : the middle arch of feet and the space beetween toes will remain soft,so in case of contact with very hot pavement you can get very hurt...

Thank you. Clipper, you are absolutely right. But these are small problems to enjoy walking barefoot 24 hours a day. The pleasure it gives me is a big thing if I compare it with that.

I burn very hot concrete in the soles of the feet, especially when passing through the manhole covers but I want to get used to it to walk comfortably on them shortly. Do not miss the shoes after more than a month without using them.

I am sure your soles will adapt and that soon you will get used even to extremely hot pavement and metal manhole covers Cecilia.

Have a nice week!

Regards

DG

Lucky you: 35 degrees; here in London it's barely 18 and we've not seen the sun for weeks. Nice diary, keep it up. Would like a shoot with you out clubbing for an evening barefoot.

that is done

Hi Cecilia ... I had already seen, from your pics, that your soles couldn't protect you from HEAT with the easyness you're used to feel on stones.
In fact Clipper is completely right: rough terrains need different abilities and different training compared to hot ones.
You've developed a good toughness, but not a thick callosity.
(!!... this one seems to be a constant among VERY TOUGH barefooter as you are, I mean they don't develop a thick callosity, this could be an interesting matter to discuss here).

Therefore ....... MANY MANY COMPLIMENTS. Really.

You could have written "hey fans, I tried an hot pavement, no problem as usual!"

Instead, you admitted you've met your first real troubles in staying barefoot. You're a real "barefoot-approach-to-life" girl. :))))

Reading between the lines you wrote, it seems this has shaken you a little: "Do not miss the shoes after more than a month without using them" is a very sweet and proud sentence, it seems you said it ... to yourself more than to us, it sounds like "react Cecilia, it's so strange feeling pain but react, you're not a beginner!" ... so compliments again.

I'm really interested in knowing what you felt inside, in your soul, when .... after one month spent barefoot feeling any day tougher than the day before, you suddenly felt vulnerable: this is the first time it happens in your barefoot life, isn't it?

If you want describe..... I'd like to know.

I've met only two kinds of barefooter: the vulnerable ones (99,999%), that fight to stay barefoot despite vacillating often, because they love it, and the... very tough ones, that, completely unused to pain, get caught by surprise when they experience it and hey can't fight it ("I'm tough, but this is too much for me").

You're... an exciting excepion. :)
Keep 'em bare!

Bye!

flowwer, you're right. The truth is that the burning ground early days were hard. It is true that after so many days progress without difficulty was a little embarrassing but I have not discouraged to continue to walk barefoot. I like it and want to get it, and I still have a long summer

I know what you felt, believe me ... that feeling of vulnerability that probably caugth you completely by surprise, as you wasn't used to any more.

Who takes off shoes but TAKES THEM IN THE BAG doesn't know, I think, how much feeling vulnerable touches inside a real barefooter, that has shoes far away! ... it's like for a brief moment your... "barefoot world" collapses, while you think "so... I can't do it!... not always, not everywhere, not as I thought!".

But it lasts just a moment, for a real barefooter :) ... many compliments Cecilia. :)

Could I tell something privately to you? ... if I can, I give you my address.

A hug!

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