As the days have been getting shorter it’s been getting more and more difficult to run during daylight, especially with my work schedule the way it is. Last Tuesday I ran after an early morning conference call, before going into the office and managed a reasonably good time. But Wednesday morning I looked out the window and there was a dusting of snow on the ground and I just couldn’t bring myself to step out in my nylon shorts and cotton t-shirt. Later in the week I caught a cold and wasn’t up to running anyhow, but over the weekend, after a little Internet research I went down to Dicks Sports and bought some cold weather running gear – full length skin tight synthetic leggings, top and balaclava. Well tonight I got to try them out for the first time, and I can report that they work just fine. However considering their figure-hugging properties combined with the extra kilos (pounds) I’ve put on this year, I think it was just was well that I stepped out under cover of darkness.
Unfortunately out here in Lake County we’re not blessed with the conveniences of footpaths (sorry sidewalks) or street lighting on many roads. However at 7:30 at night there is plenty of traffic. So it was kind of interesting having to rely on the lights of approaching cars to see where I was stepping and at the same time make sure that I wasn’t so close to the road as to become a traffic hazard.
In completely different news, later in the evening I drove down the road to Best Buy to buy a new telephone (sick of doing conference calls without a speakerphone). When I got there I was immediately alerted to the imminent arrival of a new electronics product (the Xbox 360 as it happens) by a large number of people camped out on the footpath outside the store. Not just camping chairs and rugs etc, but even a widescreen TV and generator!
Gotta love fanatics 