headlight on, please

8° celsius. dry and windy. 17:55 (1:25:00 hrs)

i thought the wind was on holiday as i stepped out of the car to do some warm up. unfortunately it was not. the windy condition made the weather colder than it actually was. lucky for me, i had my double/triple layer of running attire. and wearing new shoes - asics gel ds-trainer. well, let's see if this shoes could bring wonders!

i started slow and the jogging traffics were at its high. lots of joggers running clockwise direction, my opposite direction. although most of them were dressed in a weather-conform running attire, one or two wore shorts and t-shirt and they seemed to be either
1. couldn't be bothered to wear proper attire
2. didn't have time to change
3. forgotten their running attire
4. acting strong
5. plain stupid.

i don't know. the wind was quite strong as the time went. it was dark. as i was running, i saw 2 person coming from the opposite direction. i tried to go to the right but the puddle and mud made me swerved to the left and without any signal, a fast running guy behind the two (i didn't see him earlier) had to avoid the same puddle and mud and bang.... i was in the middle and almost fell. luckily one of the two guy did manage to get hold of me cos the impact from the third stout guy was quite massive. ouch.... now i know the meaning of "sport ist mord". the funny thing was, all four of us continued running as if nothing happened. i saw the the third guy again later and the way he was built, he could be an athlete from whatever kind of sport (maybe a boxer or a ice hockey player or american football player)? ou.... my shoulder hurts.

ran the second round with a faster tempo (it must be the adrenaline after the mishap). managed to keep the high tempo for the last 2 km before i stopped and did the warm-down run and exercises. during the run-down, i saw a guy with a spotlight on his head. hey, i think that is what one should do, when running in the dark cos 80% of the joggers do wear dark-coloured running attires.

initially i wanted to do 3 round but the wind and the mishap "prevented" me from doing so. the real problem comes later this week after the weather forecast was announced that the wind will pick up and can get as high as above 100 km/h. hmm... maybe with the help of the wind, i could run faster! ohh... about the shoes, i had blisters on my right heel.

alsteration (week 3) : 15.359 km
alstering : 14.66 km
non-alstering : 0.699 km

total running (january) : 36.599 km
davon
alstering : 29.32 km
80.11% gehört zu alsteration