Salomon X trail run 2008

refreshingly muddy...full of snaking slopes...together with the usual east side humidity...gives you an enormous sense of well-being upon completion that's for sure...

at the beginning you kept siam-ing the muddy parts of the route hoping to get as little mud on your shoes as possible but once into the "forest area", no escape le...siam here will land on mud...siam there will also land on mud...

at one point there was a sign saying "obstacle ahead"...i was like...hmmm...and then i saw a small muddy "pool"...you needed to jump onto the sole piece of dead wood in the middle of the "pool" so as to kenna as little muddy water as possible and after that go up a muddy step...

and as i went up my right shoe planted into the mud and out came my right foot...i was like...knn...as i turned back to retrieve my shoe...all the muddy stuff gushed into my shoe when i pulled it out from the mud...

and you know that squishy feeling when you put on a wet pair of shoes that got drenched in the rain? that was the exact feeling i got after putting my shoe back...except it's squishing with muddy water instead of rain water...

what followed next once out of the "forest area" was a slew of snaking climbs up and down the trail route slopes...it was FULL of slopes i tell you...FULL of frigging slopes...

came back in about 47min...both legs from knees down all muddied...shoes...no need to say le...heh...

next up...swisshotel vertical marathon! and no training done yet! woohoo...