Maiden run! Nine kilometres of slush, dark and uphill, it seemed. Obviously, my NYC shape is long, long gone.
Today was “cool stuff in the mail” day. I got a package from Salomon: I won a pair of XT Wings S-Lab 4, by simply participating in a one question survey on facebook. Thanks a lot!
Also in the package: some NYC marathon merchandise that I either got only now (finisher shirt) or got now in the right size (long sleeve shirt, five borough gloves). Perfect to start training again in a week, after a five weeks hiatus!
Trail running career starting in 3 – 2 – 1 – tomorrow!
My new babies, the Salomon XT Wings GTX. I was actually looking for the version without Gore-Tex, but a) I would have had to wait for a month and b) Winter’s coming and it’s going to be cold and wet, so why not.
After a bit of poking around I realise that the successor has been on the market for a while now, so at first I was like “hmpf”, but then I read reviews by people who have used them both, and I was like “okay”.
They will be broken in with a run from Horgen to Einsiedeln (or the other way around?) tomorrow. I hope the weather stays like today (i.e., perfect)!
