Unfortunately the better and more experienced you get, the more you seem like a freak of nature doing something inaccessible. From what I've seen, barefoot running went from being an activity of a few eccentric nutters to somewhat cool in 2010, when it hit a temporary peak. Incidentally that was when I was in my best shape so I was riding that first wave. Then many of the initial people who read Born to Run and tried barefoot/minimalist running became disillusioned and moved on to other things and barefoot running became less cool again. But in the wake of that, there is a larger group of eccentric nutters doing it now, and a lot of them have been doing it for a while now and are getting pretty good. Now there are quite a few barefoot runners around who can hold their own with the shoe crowd, but still not enough for it to seem like a real movement unless you look on-line. There are still only one or two in any given town. Even I wonder WTF I am doing sometimes, and I've been at it since 2003. I keep doing it anyway though. It's nice to be good at something, although there are self-identified barefoot runners running way farther and faster than me now. Barefoot Alex (both of them), Julian, Mark Cucuzzella, etc. People running a zillion marathons and million-mile races and breaking the sound barrier and whatever. There are books and videos too. A lot of them are kinda cheezy IMO but it's also cool to see this happening. So I'm not even as special as I used to be, but I'm still a barefoot running guy wherever I go. It's cool that now that people know it can be done, people seem to get good much faster now.