Barefoot for Winter

I am incredibly frustrated!!!!

As the name of my blog may have hinted, I am a barefoot runner. Not literally. I wear VFF's , they are as close to barefoot as I can get and still have my tootsie's protected.

I learned to run in these shoes. They are one of the main reasons I am a runner, and that I am as fit as I am now. I wear these shoes to work, to run, to Zumba, to the grocery store....but, alas, perhaps not for much longer.

You see, I live in Alberta. We have winter. Not a little bit, but, serious, sub-zero winter. The type of weather where the insides of your nose freeze as soon as you inhale. Not conducive to barefoot running at all.

I thought things would be fine this year. I thought that the fabulous VFF company that I love and tell everyone about had my back.

This winter, they were finally making a winter shoe. I heard about, and then read about these fabulous shoes --> THE LONTRA . They were the winter running shoe I had been dreaming about.

So far, I cannot get a straight answer as to whether or not we will be seeing them up here. One major retailer of outdoor gear has informed me that they will not be carrying them as they could not get them from the manufacturer. WHAT? Where else would we need these more than in Canada???The land of snow and ice??? VFF's got me hooked on their product, and now seem to be leaving me high and dry when I need them most.

If Canada will not be getting these, I don't know what this gal will do.  Treadmill you say? Hamster wheel of death I say.