The Downside of Summer Barefooting

It's GREAT to go barefoot
When the pavement is HOT!
The PROBLEM with that is:
The REST of me's...SHOT!

 

I Suggest You Post This In The Poetry Forum....

After Nearly 7 Years Of Fulltime Barefooting, I Think I Am Qualified To Say,

There Is NO Downside To Barefooting....



Cheers Glen.

 

It's just poetic license
To say what I say;
Have you noetic license
To my little word play?

 

Heck you get about the Hipforums Glen, good to see you here :2thumbsup:

...and the poetry just lightens the day!

*I can cope with hot pavements but the roof of my truck was unbearable today I had to throw a blanket over it to fix my skylight; I've found my barefoot limit!

Madesh

 

The pavement here is dubbed "the streets of fire". A study showed that "asphalt pavement was hot enough to cause burns from 9 AM to 7 PM during the summer months [and] it was hot enough to cause a second-degree burn within 35 seconds from 10 AM to 5 PM. " In the winter, though, it's very nice to go barefooting.

 

I've had to use my flops a couple of times already to cross the hot pavement. Even at 75° F air temperature, after running for a couple of miles in full sun, the pavement starts to blister my feet.

 

The blacktop and pavement is already getting so hot past 2pm that I have to cave and wear shoes if I don't have enough grass/shade to retreat to. I remember as a kid running along the white stripes of paint on the blacktop to 'save my souls'. God bless hot ass Tejas.

 

That's me and rain! I like the wet street, leaving wet footprints on dry tile in places like covered walkways in shopping centers, mud, puddles, and how quickly the bare skin dries again... but since our climate is not so warm, it's usually pretty chilly to get wet all over, and also of course clothes don't dry as quickly as bare feet either!
Fortunately one can get many of the fun stuff by going out soon after the rain stops, but that's not always possible, if I just have to go somewhere at an appointed time I still have to go out even when it's pouring

 

However, 35 seconds is enough time to quick walk or even run across a parking lot while also hot-footing it. My own definition of hot-footing it is flicking the sole up in the air at the end of each step to give it some heat relief. Still wouldn't want to have to take a chance of standing and rolling on the soles, and for that I would carry flip flops in a carrying bag. Burns that are not second degrees burns are normal for hot surface barefooting and should not be considered as a setback, even though the news likes to consider burned soles as bad for barefooting.