VFFs are not compatible with dress pants.

Today I had a super duper important meeting, and I wanted to dress nicely. I knew that my VFFs would not be appropriate foot attire, but I wasn't quite ready to tackle wearing heels because my right calf still has been mildly painful. I decided to wear my Skechers flats:

While these have a slightly elevated heel, I figured they would be the most similar in feel to my VFFs and still look vaguely dressy. I made a good choice, I think, but I still was amused at how just wearing any shoe with padding in the heel makes me walk differently. My stride is longer and I walk like I'm always in a rush (which, let's face it, when you're taking mass transit to get anywhere, you usually are). 

We had a small break in the middle of the meeting and I dashed upstairs to grab my laptop. And by dash I mean I lightly ran to my office, carefully landing on the forefoot. This wasn't difficult because the heel of this shoe really is not that large. Interestingly, the only muscles that I felt working as I ran this short distance were the exact same muscles that have been hurting in my right calf all this time. This leads me to believe that the soreness still is from the running a week ago and not in fact as much from relearning how to walk. We will see. The soreness is mostly gone now while I'm walking which is good news. It seemed to be all muscle type pain anyway, and not bone pain. Hopefully, all pain will be gone for good soon.

Now that the meeting is over, I have put my VFFs back on my feet and my feet are kind of joyful to be out of real shoes. I'm happy that I actually feel more comfortable in my minimalist shoes now than in my regular shoes, so hopefully with a little more time, the walking part of this experiment will be over and I'll be able to move to stage two: jumping.

Right now, the only problem is that my dress pants are dragging on the ground... hopefully the rain holds off until after I get home.