Hi Polina

Your feet will soon get stronger and you will get used to the pain, hope the pain doesn't stop you from becoming a barefooter.

About the endurance tests, now that it's cold maybe you can try some ones that involve heat.

God! It's amazing you've walked barefoot on such harsh terrain Polina! You're very brave.

Douring the way back your feet had already tired from the previous climbing up,and also,if the way you walk was in slope,your soles had different load : douring the climbing up the most load is on the heels of feet,douring the climbing down the most load is on the forefoot,probably a bit more tender than heels.

As said by DG2001,continue,obviusly without exaggeration,and your feet will soon get stronger and tougher.

This path should be a verify for test your progress,maybe doing it a regular interval of time.

Congratulations for your strength of will...continue this way...

Thank you for comments!:)

DG, you are right, I think it's a good time for heating tests!
I yet put out cigarettes on my feet, you'll can see it at next part of my moscow photosession. It was very scary at first time:)))) but it's not painfully:)
I'll train with hairdryer too!!

I liked to walking on stone surface. Ya, it was painfully, but it's such good massage))) soon I'll be very healthy))

Clipper, when I'm climbing up I tired to have even load, not only to heels or toes.
But when I'm climbing down nothing can help me)) After this trip my heels are not pain. it's more strong ya:)

Pain doesn't scare me. It's not bad for my health so I'll continue )))

Welcome, Polina, here too!

I must say that your pics are more than gorgeous.
And your spirits are most impressive!
I'm totally admiring you, so keep it up, and keep showing us your progress as a true Barefoot Girl
We are proud of you (at least I am )!

Try..,but I suggest you to not exxaggerate for now,and I would like to clarify that barefooting is a very healthy practice on natural "normal" surfaces : very sharp gravel,stones,thorns,clods,forest ground...can be very painful for tender soles,but are natural surface and our soles should be trained to resist to them,like population that never wear shoes.

Africans,indios and many other population walk barefeet all the life,but certainly does not overheat the soles with an hairdryer...

Exactly : pain,in this case, is the only way to very healthy feet,and healthy is the most important thing,callused leather soles will then be a consequence.

There is a winter now in Russia. Very much snow:)
I wanna walk on gravel, stones ,forest ground and etc very very, but its not possible ((
I'm waiting spring and summer!:)
Now just snow and hairdryer)))

Clipper, yeath, I know this pain is very good for health. That's a one of the reasons I decided to walk barefoot!:) Its really like this!


Spanish streets=)

Nice job Polina Keep it up
You said earlier "I yet put out cigarettes on my feet, you'll can see it at next part of my moscow photosession. It was very scary at first time:)))) but it's not painfully:)
Rather than hair dryer which would put heat on non calloused arch off foot, do you think you could practice maybe with cigarettes? It's very impressive you said you put one out and wasn't painfull.
Did you put the cigarettes out just for the photo session or do you do it all the time?

Hi,

where are your 2 videos? Can you give a link to it?

I can imagine that,russian winter is colder than italian one,and with much more snow...

We wait for springer and summer too !

Notice : in Russia lives Olga Gavva,a "legend" of barefooting,probably you already know,but if not go to her site :

http://dirtysoles.ucoz.ru/index/0-2

her photos are very interesting...I do not speak russian so I can only watch the photos...

I've seen Olga's site before, maybe this will help. Her English version,
http://dirtysoles.ru.net/_eng_life_extrime.html

Polina, what do you think about about her (Olga's) inuring section and photo's?

b'ftlvr2008, I don't smoke, so I put cigarettes out only in photosession. It was my second cigarette in life:))
but sure, I'll buy cigarettes only to use it in my mercenary aim))
cas as I said, I like it=)

Burkhard55, I tried ti attach it to flickr, but I can't.
you can see in my diary - link: video climbing
video

Clipper, are you from Italy?
I didnt know about Olga Gavva yet.
thanks for link)
I dont have enough time to see it in detail, but I saw some pics - its wonderful!
dont thought that such girl lives in Russia:) its cool=)

hey, guys! Right now I saw a wonderful film! suppose, you've seen it, but if no, advice - just see!!! german film, named "Barfuss" (2005). I love it so much! And I wanna walk barefoot more after this film and I miss my barefooting walks all day long in the summer!
enjoy!

Barfuss is a cool film! I saw part of it. Glad it has inspired you Polina!

It's a good thing you don't smoke, it's bad for your health.

Thanks for the recent updates, we'll be looking forward for more.

Спасибо большое!

i just saw olga's site, i especially liked the barefoot hobby photos.. How come she is topless?

милый DG, gracias por tus palabras!!:)
and your Russian is very good=)

As I wrote in my diary I'm having exams at next week!
Please, wish me good luck))

Yesterday I had a test with aroma sticks:) caz I still dont buy nasty unhealthy cigarettes:)
it wasn't hard. I wanna try to put some cigarettes at ones. and sure I'll photo it)
But I have spanish photos, dont forget)
I'll attach it in my diary