If you doubt barefoot running is on the rise..

…check out the mob at the NYC Barefoot Festival. Only 2 years old and already booming. Barefoot Ted's monkey-powered cart was the No. 1 hit (well, excluding the free kegs of Smuttynose pale ale). Watching Ted both pull and be pulled caused Dr. Lieberman to label him "both a rickshaw wallah and a shirtless barefoot sahib."