This is a different piece than normal, and it doesn’t cover anything that relates to anyone but me. I have two pair of gym shoes. One is a “barefoot” shoe made by Xero Shoes, and which my daughter bought me for Christmas. or perhaps my birthday or mother’s day. I don’t remember which. I do remember that the reason she bought them is response to a comment I made that the new shoes that I bought for running, were affecting my back squats because my heels were too elevated.

Yes, I could have just taken my shoes off, but that’s just not something I wanted to do at the gym. I mean to say… “ew.” So that was off the table. (To be fair, there are people who take off their shoes at the gym, I’m just not one of them.)

So fast forward in the story, and I no longer run. I found that I couldn’t recover fast enough when I was running. So I no longer run.