June 7, 2012

June 7, 2012

How it Felt:  Pretty cool.  So this is a path on one of the many wonderful trails in Des Moines that I'm pretty familiar with.  This time as I approached the single-track trail, I thought "two roads diverged in an open wood, etc, etc." and decided to take the single-track.  This was my first time on this, or any other unpaved trail and it was pretty cool.  This was a very different experience than running on the paved trails.  A lot more quick ups and downs with hills, trees whooshing (well not really "whooshing" at my pace, but you get the idea) by (in my mind I felt like the speed bike scenes in the forests of Endor), and my mind was much more engaged looking out for the terrain...except for the few seconds when I wasn't watching the terrain and caught my left toes on a root going downhill.  I did an awesome barrel roll and came up with nothing damaged but a pretty cool scrape on my knee (you thought I was going to say that my pride was damaged.  You obviously haven't been reading long enough to know that I have no pride left.  Gotcha!)  So I did a mile on the single-track and then two more miles on the paved trail.  Good run overall, although I think I'll probably be staying more on the pavement for now.