After the amazing weather we had all week (mid to high 70s), last night it snowed! I'm not a fan of cold weather but once the snow melted it was gorgeously cloudy and wet outside and the first thing on my mind was PUDDLES!!! =) I headed out for a run wearing my vibrams for the fist time. I set out on an adventurous route, the longest I have ever run up here by my house (in the mountains). It was actually snowing a bit when I set out but not cold enough for it to stay.
It's a lot longer when I'm running with my own feet rather than galloping a horse! I had so much fun in the puddles, as planned and I eventually took the VFFs off to splash through mud. This route will definitely be hard to run in the future without the vibrams because I'm not a fan of chipsealed roads, cacti, and goathead thorns. But oh, it was so much fun! By the end I had a hugge uphill stretch so I kind of walked and moaned because by that time I was pretty tired - I haven't been running so much lately. It was about 5 miles, but running map/map my run doesn't have the streets labelled correctly so I had to do it using the satellite view. Hopefully it was correct.
Running was never so enjoyable with shoes on... even though I don't consider vibrams to be "barefoot", it's close enough.
Now it's hailing/snowing again... glad I took that window of opportunity for such a nice run!
It's a lot longer when I'm running with my own feet rather than galloping a horse! I had so much fun in the puddles, as planned and I eventually took the VFFs off to splash through mud. This route will definitely be hard to run in the future without the vibrams because I'm not a fan of chipsealed roads, cacti, and goathead thorns. But oh, it was so much fun! By the end I had a hugge uphill stretch so I kind of walked and moaned because by that time I was pretty tired - I haven't been running so much lately. It was about 5 miles, but running map/map my run doesn't have the streets labelled correctly so I had to do it using the satellite view. Hopefully it was correct.
Running was never so enjoyable with shoes on... even though I don't consider vibrams to be "barefoot", it's close enough.
Now it's hailing/snowing again... glad I took that window of opportunity for such a nice run!
