You know its good when something breaks.

So I needed a stress relief run today. I was even sent outta the house by the wife because she has had enough of my bad attitude and poor disposition. As always, the stress leaves me optimistic when it comes to goals for a run. I had a brief idea to knock out my barefoot half today. Ya, that didn't happen. It was nice today and I probably should have gone out earlier before the stress reached it's redline. Once again though, poor choices. Anyway, the run it's self was pretty good. Went on a route I hadn't used in ....well a while. Hills, not bad in such a way as to force you to a walk or employ the use of hands, but enough to give you a work out if you haven't done hill work in while...like me. I ended up with a 10:37 average pace. Funny, it felt a lot faster than a 10+ minute pace. Anyway I took off barefoot with huaraches in hand just in case the cooler evening weather threatened to rekindle old frostbite injuries or road conditions proved to be more than I could bare. I arrived at an improvised turn around point after an internal debate and self scolding for neglecting hills for so long and decided to run back in huaraches because of the snow melt run off in a number of spots along the way. My tender feet got cold, lol, and about half way back a lace breaks.

For a brief moment I considered running back with just the one huarache on but decided against it this time. Running barefoot in cold weather while carrying your shoes gets me enough weird looks, running with just the one huarache well....I wasn't ready to tempt fate in somebody wanting to talk with me. Sorry people, on a mission here and not done yet. Catch me when its over. As it happens the last little bit felt the best, running on the road rather than the cement sidewalk as I did on the trek out.

Its funny, when you think about it. With all the issues, minor as they were, even a bad run will help to aid a poor disposition. I do feel better. I am ready to interact with the human race again.