A FRIGGIN’ HEADLIGHT!

It’s an actual light sitting on your actual head and one can use it for jogging in total darkness. It’s awesome. Not window-manager awesome, but still…

Yesterday I took this headlight and a pair of jogging-gloves (which are jogging-gloves because they have a KEY COMPARTMENT!!! [...]]]> From my first paycheck I bought something everyone should have.

A FRIGGIN’ HEADLIGHT!

It’s an actual light sitting on your actual head and one can use it for jogging in total darkness. It’s awesome. Not window-manager awesome, but still…

Yesterday I took this headlight and a pair of jogging-gloves (which are jogging-gloves because they have a KEY COMPARTMENT!!! [Maybe you should get some for Amina, Buck :-]) for a test-jog.

In the olden times, when the fiery ball of the heavens still casteth glorious rays of light on our earth when I got home I had picked a nice jogging round through the nearby woods, approximately 4.5 km which I think is a good distance for an after-work run.

Then came CET and now it’s pitch black when I find the time to run. To solve this I bought the aforementioned gear and BAM!

It’s actually a quite unique experience. I’m glad I’m not easily scared because the headlight gives the whole thing a rather ‘blair-witchy’ touch.
Yesterday it was also raining a little so there was a constant crackling everywhere and the air had a misty quality, waaaay cool.

Even though I didn’t make the whole round and got off-track a couple of times I enjoyed it.

So today I did the same thing and learned a couple of things:

1. You cannot see black dogs in the dark until they bark and look directly at you and then THEIR EYES GLOW!
2. I’m not easily scared but some things still give me the creeps
3. You actually do run a little faster afterward, even though you’re tired

I thing I’ll try to do that every 2 days at least.

Next time I’ll bring cookies…