Oh yes, it’s Friday! I’m so excited for the weekend! It’s packed with plans: MSP is taking me out tonight for Birthday Fondue, I have an e-a-r-l-y 10 mile run planned for tomorrow morning, and a SuperBowl party on Sunday. The weekend will be a blast and will probably FLY BY!
Lookie lookie what showed up yesterday!
My Vibrams are here! Weeeeeeee! Aren’t they funny? This pair fit PERFECTLY! I wore them to the grocery store and Goodwill. I didn’t notice anyone looking at me like I’m some kind of fool yet, but I may have been keeping my head bent low under my hat. 
I’ve been torturing my dogs with them. Riley can’t get enough sniffing:
And Rascal thinks they are some sort of strange playmate and keeps slapping his front paws down and wiggling his tail in an effort to engage this new friend in a game:
So far I’m LOVING them. I wore them around for about 4 hours yesterday. Some of that time included running 2.25 miles. We’ll see how the calves feel later today – I hope I haven’t made them insanely sore for tomorrow’s long run! (Which will be done in my regular running shoes, NOT these. You are supposed to wear these for 1-2 hours a day while your muscles, tendons and ligaments get used to them. Obviously I’m already bending the rules, but I’m not crazy enough to try 10 in them – yet.)
I will say that running in them on the treadmill was a vast improvement over running in my socks or even sockless. I’m DYING to get outside with them to see what it’s like on the trails. Maybe Sunday if my legs aren’t fried from tomorrow’s run.
A definite plus: if you are feeling bored with running, this gives you a whole new reason to be excited about it!
I’m off to get in an upper body workout before the work day starts.
Which team are you rooting for this weekend in the SuperBowl? Since neither the Broncos nor the Steelers made it far enough, I don’t really have a favorite. But I at least try to root for an AFC team, so I guess I’ll be cheering on Colts. What I WON’T be cheering about is the halftime show. The WHO? Really? Damn you Janet and Justin for forever messing up fun and edgy halftime shows! That was the last good one!
Have a FABULOUS Friday!
– Shari B. =)
