Saturday, January 19, 2008

I'm not a slacker, I swear...

I haven't posted a thing for more than a month. That doesn't mean that I haven't been exercising, although the weather has been colder than I like to run in around here. I'm really glad I spent all that money on warm clothing last fall because if I hadn't, I'd be really fat and lazy right about now.

My little bro got me some Yak Trax for Christmas this year (I asked for them). Here in the frozen desert of Idaho Falls, Idaho, we tend to get only a little snow in the winter, but with the low temperatures, it sticks around for three months. I don't know how I ever ran in the snow without these traction devices. Oh yeah, I didn't. They're great on solid packed snow or ice, but I can hardly feel them through the soles of my shoes. They seem sturdily built and the traction coils cover pretty much any part of your feet that you would want to run on so they would work well no matter what type of gait you have. The only problem I've had is that they don't give any improvement on loose, thick or slushy snow, although I can't imagine anything that really would. It still feels like I'm running in sand. I would wholeheartedly recommend Yak Trax to anyone who lives in a snowy climate that wants to continue to run outside in the winter. It's not supposed to hit 30 degrees Fahrenheit until at least February around here, so I'll definitely be getting plenty of use out of them.