Welcome to the Dog Days of summer. Everything slows down in our effort to savor the season and get every last drop of the warmth into our bones and spirit, storing it up for the cool weather to come. But let’s not even think about that right now, let’s just kick off our shoes, and go for some barefoot walking at the beaches along the Third Coast lakefront. There is a lot of controversy surrounding the “barefoot” walking/running idea- just because it is helpful to the Tarahumara people in Mexico http://therunningbug.co.uk/rbblogs/rickety-ragged-rank-runner/b/weblog/archive/2013/01/24/running-barefoot-tarahumara-tribe-runners.aspx, can this translate into a benefit for those of us living in concrete jungles? My research and personal experience tell.