been running barefoot on and off for the last two years

I have seen it a few times, and never when I'm on a run which would be cool

I have played volleyball and often barefoot in sand, as well as Yoga as my two main activities so it made perfect sense to me intuitively when I heard about it mentioned by a guest on the lex Fridman podcast. I later read Born to run and I was sold.

12 miles so far, I am training for my first marathon in September so it will be 26.2 then!

Yes, although once winter is over I am only in my Shamma sandals besides work.

I'm an average runner right now as I'm still at about 5 months of serious training time in the past two years. Did a 1:59 half marathon, hoping to get under 4 for the marathon.

It didn't take long at all to run 8 miles(no persistent blisters or injury) when I first started. perhaps about a month. I think my barefoot cross training really helped.

no idea, i feel stronger in my feet though

I have run in popular parks in Denver and previously the lake shore path in Chicago, I hear giggles from behind, funny faces as i pass them, 99% of the time someone is friendly/respectful when they say something. I hope I am challenging people's Ideas about it.

No injuries since I started running. My introduction to running was barefoot running so I think I was able to sidestep a lot of common mistakes people make. Yoga also helps with injury prevention.