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Genuine freedom.
For those that haven't read it http://www.barefootrunning.fas.harvard.edu/ is a good read and I broadly speaking buy into the rational behind the philosophy. I don't have time to go into my experience now but for what its worth, I have a generally sporty background (mainly rowing) and have done bits and bobs of running for ages, always in professionally fitted "conventional" running shoes. In the last 3 years I started training for Marathon distance running and spent the first year and a half wracked with injuries (stress fractures and buggered ITB). Since switching to a mid/forefoot strike, and incorporating barefoot running (vibram 5 fingers) into my training I have been both injury free and faster.
It definitely seems to work for me. More over, the philosophy of "less is more" and not trying to engineer a solution to a problem strikes a chord with me.
+1 Genuine Freedom.