Tonight my kids were so excited to go to the mall and spend their hard earned cash on candy and toys!
My 4 year old Breanne was ESPECIALLY fun to go to the candy store with. SO MUCH FUN watching her just going to town picking out the coolest candy, then watching her get a thrill out of sharing it with her brother and sister.
So after helping Abe figure out how to transform his new power ranger he saved all week for, and tucking the kids in, it was my turn.
Looked at the temperature - 31 degrees, perfect - threw on all my tights and slipped on my new FiveFinger Treks for their inaugural run.
I didn't want to break them in easy...so I threw on a head lamp and headed straight for the rockiest trail by my house - a six mile kind of hilly loop around a pond.
The result: THEY PASSED WITH FLYING COLORS! I'm in major like with those shoes.
Here are the run stats, it was a little slow going on some of the hills with very little light:
6.5 Miles - 54 Minutes - 8:18/mile - HR: 154 bpm - Ascent/Descent: 690 ft
My headlamp was basically useless because it was so dim, and so I was charging through all sorts of rocks and ice clumps and never rolled my ankle or felt any amount of pain.
Hammering up and down those trails in the dark I just had a huge grin on my face. At one point, listening to Cake - going the distance (super fun song to run to) - I felt like my daughter must have felt at that candy store. I love being a kid.
Those are fantastic trail running shoes for me. If they can stand up to a night trail run through snow, ice, small rocks, big rocks, up and down steep hills, without good light, and still protect my feet, they should fit the bill. I really like the added protection they give me, while maintaining a lot of flexibility and still being completely flat soled with no padding.
The thing I predict though, is that they would last a long time, EXCEPT that I bet the tread on the bottoms is going to wear down within a few hundred miles. But those things are extremely comfortable.
