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:
- You cannot see black dogs in the dark until they bark and look directly at you and then THEIR EYES GLOW!
- I’m not easily scared but some things still give me the creeps
- 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.