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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Slush run

The Slush Pond
Spring in North Dakota.  the gutters become awesome pooh-stick courses, the sidewalks a fill with ankle deep cold water, and University Park, a mere two blocks from my house, forms a pond of calf deep slush for a couple of days. 

Last Sunday i took advantage of all three.  I put on my inov-8 goretex ultralight running 'boots' (288 grams per shoe baby!), a pair of Inov-8 'debris' socks, some old shorts (yeah, it was that warm) and went out to run 8 miles.  I ran straight through all the puddles and took to the snow-mobile trails once i hit the greenway.  It was brutal running and despite the vast quantities of water i encountered my feet stayed dry for nearly 40 minutes, finally succumbing to the wicking nature of the socks and one too many over the ankle puddles.  After the run i spent an hour with my boys, Keegan and AJ, watching sticks and leaves race down the street towards the storm drain - careening under half melted blocks of ice and through twisty valleys of snow.  And then after a nice hot shower, the whole family walked down to that pond in University Park to watch Keegan go 'swimming'. 

What a great day.

2 comments:

  1. Looks fun!
    What's your next race? Seems like your training is going well, good splits in the pool!

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  2. no official race until untamed new england in june, although i'm directing a 6-8 hour adventure race on april 28th and also planning a 26+ mile marathon swim course for july 21st, so i'll be plenty busy. will probably try to get in some big epic packraft/run or something in late may if i've got the time though and can ramp up my run training in a month....

    as for the swimming, remember i swam in HS, so it's kind of like how you can, after all these years, still go under 18 minutes in a 5K. i'd trade my swim splits for your run splits any day (;

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