Running into daylight savings time - 11/01-11/7/09

[Becky]

It's funny - I'm finding myself jogging in neighborhoods one might think of as "bad" but they are just neglected. I like discovering this town. I went by a man at a bus stop and he said first something in Spanish, and then "hey, I like to see a beautiful woman taking a jog!"

It made me smile. Call me vain.

I love stories like this, and no, I don't think you're vain at all DH and I commute through similar neighborhoods , and we've found people there to be friendly and respectful, even more so than the "nice" neighborhoods. One guy waved us down at a red light and yelled, "Damn! I just saw y'all over in New Castle (about 10 miles away)- y'all are hard core!"

[Jolt]

Yesterday's run was about an hour on the trail near my friend's house. It was pretty good, except I found out I need to get something blaze orange to wear--I saw two guys hunting near the trail (it's in a state park) and got a little nervous since I wasn't wearing anything particularly high-visibility (I don't think electric blue counts as hi-viz!).

[indigoiis]

Okay, I broke down and bought a pair of VFF classics, and a pair of injini coolmax socks.
I tried them on and noticed with great dismay that my extremely short toes are hard to get into the glove part.
I mean, my toes are wee. Wee little nubbins.

I thought should I cut the socks and sew them up smaller?
Otherwise there is a LOT of extra fabric bunching up into the long toes of the VFFs, and as that is actually okay (it fills the toe up) it's really hard to get everything lined up in there.

I'll work on it.
Plan on doing a short trail run with them tomorrow...

[skhill]

I feel safer running in "bad" neighborhoods than good ones-- there's always folks around, maybe that's it...

Today, 8.3 miles, trying out a new route over to my brother's house and back. I went past 2 universities, 2 hospitals, 2 starbucks, and 2 dunkin' donuts! Somehow, I've suddenly gotten faster; I averaged 9:20/mile, and it felt like I was going slow (heck, with that headwind for the first 3 miles, I *know* I was going slow). Maybe the cool fall weather's really making a difference!