I love running truly barefoot. I can't do all my miles that way yet, so I augment with Huraches, not so I can make the barefoot claim, but so I can maximize my skin to ground time and still maintain my training miles. I know Ken Bob and others recommend going totally skin to ground and living with the low mileage, but having gone from 330 lbs to 178 I am not willing to sacrifice my mileage for its health benefits, so I run as much as I can truly barefoot and then don Huraches and finish my training. I am up to 6 miles on the trail and 4 miles on asphalt. I try to increase a little each week.