I love these shoes. I hate these shoes. These are some ugly shoes. And yet, I love trikking in these shoes. When I wear these shoes while trikking, I feel very connected to the Trikke, like it's an extension of my body. The foot pads are my feet's pads. This gets me closer to the "sweet spot" while trikking.I feel sorry for those who don't know about the sweet spot, and no it isn't next to the "G" spot. The sweet spot is trikking at its best, when every cell in my body is operating in sinc to make the Trikke ride one smooth movement.
Most days I feel like my legs and arms are operating separately. And then there are those magical days when I hit it right. It's one movement propelling this thing forward, not arms and legs and body and Trikke, all working separately to build the momentum needed to go forward. It's this smooth movement that generates forward momentum.
On those magical days when I hit that spot it is very zen like. Should I venture to say spiritual? I read somewhere that feeling comes from both sides of the brain operating together for this activity and it creates a peaceful state. That sounds right to me.
And so, that's why I wear these ugly shoes. Not to be fashionable, not because they make my feet look sexy. They get me to the sweet spot, and that's where I want to be.
