SANTA CRUZ – You”ll hear them coming before you see them – the flap, flap, flap of rubber-clad feet on concrete. These rebels of the “barefoot” running movement are trying something ...

Barefoot running isn”t for everyone. “It”s cold. I”m not enjoying it as much as I should be,” Rivera-Espana, 26, explained as she tightened her laces. The Santa Cruz resident was one of ...

Students, lots of them, pad about barefoot. The shoeless say it’s ... At beachfront colleges such as UC Santa Cruz and UC Santa Barbara, bare feet are nothing new. And perhaps it isn’t so ...