Trail Running = Happiness Is

As my little Daily Mile widget (I still cannot get over that word!) shows, I did a brief but wicked enjoyable trail run this past weekend. I live so close to the foothills and major open space areas, but I still manage to always make excuses about why I don’t have the time to drive the extra 15 minutes to run in these scenic areas.

For some reason, it just seems easier to run straight out my door. But you know what happens then? I run on pavement. Ugh. And I see lots of people. Double ugh. (Not that I don’t like people, but I like to enjoy my runs in a peaceful state!) And I have to leash Tals, if she gets to come, and we all know how out of control behaved my dog is on a leash! As in, not at all.

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No, I am not Jennifer Aniston (sigh) and that is not Tally. Unfortunately, I don’t have any real pictures of Tally pulling me cause quite honestly, I would never dare to run Tals on a leash while holding valuable and breakable objects. Never in a million years!

Anyway, that long-winded tangent is leading up to me taking Tals and heading to a trail nearby for some trail running. You might remember my last disastrous run here from awhile back—wait, I mean walk! This time around was much better, and the day was beautiful!

Please observe Tals NOT on the leash. Awesome!

We got up early enough and headed out, but I kinda forgot that winter is here. It was already 9am but the temps were still hovering around *28. Unfortunately, it looked gorgeous so I didn’t realized it was so nippy and didn’t bring anything to cover my ears. Oops. I ended up having to bail out early because I couldn’t feel my ears, but it’s cool–just getting outside made me happy for the rest of the day!

It was a struggle to get UP this hill!!

Rocky, rocky trail!

One more thing that I simply have to share: Jog.fm! Now, maybe I’m way behind the bell curve on this one, but maybe not. I figure it’s a 50/50 chance. It’s a website where you list the pace you run, or your goal pace, and it gives you a huge list of music that has the appropriate BPM (beats per minute) to match that pace. Make sense? I was playing around with it last night and it’s very cool. I think it would be a great general pacer if you were without a Garmin or something!

What’s your preferred means of running: trail, pavement, or treadmill?

Do you listen to music while working out? Will you try Jog.fm?

Who’s going out of town for Turkey Day?!

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