It was pouring rain yesterday
and it is supposed to rain all day today, so I decided to just get my hour long
interval run completed yesterday afternoon.
I hate running on a treadmill, so I don’t have one. That left me with two options, run for at the
local track or hit the dirt roads. For
some reason an hour long interval run (10 min. warm-up, (2min HARD + 3min slow)
X 8, 10 min cool-down) at the track did not appeal to me. I love running at the track but only for
certain workouts and this was not one of them.
I decided to go with option 2:
running on the dirt roads or as we sometimes call them, “the dirties.” It was lightly sprinkling rain when I left my
house and the roads did not seem that messy.
As I got further from my house, the roads started getting really
sloppy. I had to finally face the music
and run through the mud. Then, I had a
truck pass me and he didn’t even slow down.
He splashed mud all over the entire left side of my body. I was a little ticked but it made me feel
tough! I couldn’t wait to get home and
show off my toughness to my husband. As
I got to my turn around spot the rain got harder and it continuously got harder
and harder on the way back home. I
decided to cut my run short by 10 minutes.
Needless to say, all my mud got washed off. My husband got worried and came looking for
me and insisted that I get in the truck with him at 40 minutes into my run (around
4.5 miles). So much for my toughness!
I love my Brooks Ghost, they are one of the most comfortable pairs of shoes I have ever worn. I haven’t ever worn them during muddy conditions because I usually have trail shoes (Brooks Cascadia) but I just haven’t gotten a new pair of Cascadia’s. I ran in my Brooks Ghost and they worked great. I didn’t slip or lose traction one time. This proved to me that the Brooks Ghost are great all around shoes!
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