How do you get used to heat while barefoot?

Hey I am new to posting here but have been lurking for a while.
Anyway I was wondering if anyone knows how to condition yourself to walk on hot pavement?

It has been in the high 80's - low 90's recently but I find it hard to walk from my car to the store and I usually park pretty close. Then Yesturday I saw a guy walking down the street with black soles which means he must have been far and it was in the 90's and up. So there has to be some way to get conditioned.

I have been going barefoot for 2 years in home and in public. I can walk on gravel and such with no problem, heat is my only problem.
When I walk on hot pavement my feet start to sting but only in like small spots and on all of my toes so I worry they are starting to brun and try to get in the shade. Should I not worry and let them sting or can I get burned?

If any of you know how to overcome this it would be great.

 

Do it gradually. Keep a pair of flip-flops around if you expect to encounter hot ground surfaces. I live in Florida, and there are times in the summer when it is really too hot to walk on parking lots and roads and such. But most of the time, I am okay with it as long as there are islands of coolness that I can reach.

One funny thing is that when I skydive, I do it barefoot, and in order to come back from the landing field to the hangar to repack my parachute, I have to cross tarmac -- the airport "ramp" where the planes park. It can get HOT! But I just focus, and walk kind of quickly, and when each foot is in the air, I concentrate on the idea that it is cooling during that brief time. Fortunately, it's not too far to walk.

Don't go forcing yourself to do it for a long time at once, because as I understand it (from others who post here) you can get blisters, and that will surely set you back.

Let them sting a little bit, but don't go overboard.

It sounds like your feet are already conditioned to going barefoot, and feeling the textures of the ground. I think heat conditioning is just a matter of continued exposure.

Have fun,
-Jeffrey

 

Yah I would just limit the time my feet are in contact with the ground and try to also limit the amount of time I need to spend walking on a hot surface. Walking into water or another wet or cool substance before walking on the hot pavement might help a bit as well.

 

Ok so pretty much even though your soles are toughened enough to walk on gravel and such you still have to get them to adapt to heat.

Do they just get more thick or do you just get used to the heat and it not bother you? Because I would think since I do have leather like soles it would be more of a body gets used to heat type deal. Geez I know its possible. Some people in the hot african desert walk around barefoot and that place is like 110+ and I know sand/Dirt gets even hotter then pavement sometimes.

 

Around the beginning of summer my feet sometimes get hot on asphalt, especially if I've been spending too much time indoors. But after a week or so of regular walks out in the hot summer heat my feet are pretty much comfortable on any street, parking lot, hot sand, etc. The pads of my feet get tougher, yet continue to allow sweat to surface which helps to keep 'em cool. I think I must sweat a half gallon per day just through the soles during the summer.

 

Maybe thats my problem then. My Feet never sweat unless they are in shoes.