The new wave of barefoot runners really need to toughen up a bit. Let me start by saying that you need to be dedicated and put in the miles to become a successful barefoot runner, period. Barefoot/Minimal running shoes is the major down fall of hindering people achieving their goal to be a barefoot runner. I understand it's spring, and this when all the wannabe fan fare barefoot runners come out of the wood work, and resurrect out of their barefoot running shoes and want to run barefoot, then crash and burn, bitch and moan, etc, etc...
This is just like the typical American, we want things fast, we want it now, and we don't want to wait. You need to stop complaining about every single boo boo, blister, or how your soles are tender a week into barefoot running. This does not happen overnight, but more like years. So you have a choice, continue to flip flop between footwear and running barefoot, and get nowhere. Or lose the shoes and improve. It's quite simple.
This is just like the typical American, we want things fast, we want it now, and we don't want to wait. You need to stop complaining about every single boo boo, blister, or how your soles are tender a week into barefoot running. This does not happen overnight, but more like years. So you have a choice, continue to flip flop between footwear and running barefoot, and get nowhere. Or lose the shoes and improve. It's quite simple.