Hail Brooks! Queen of the trail....

Well, after dithering for about 2 weeks, i finally got myself trail shoes. I know nothing about trails shoes, so i looked for suggestions in the Runner's World website and got a few options.
Off i headed to the local shopping complex to look for my shoes. Know what...most of these outlets are quite women specific stuff unfriendly. I went to look at the Merrell shoes..and the shop had only 1 choice for women...in a UK3.5 or an 8...?????? They had no Salomon...had a couple of New Balances,Nike's and Adidas for men, of course.So, you either buy men's shoes in a small size , so that you can fit into them ( if they have what you want and the size that you want) or have a severely limited choice of women's shoes. So off i went to another shop...They had only 1 choice of women trail shoes and i had no choice but to take them.I didn't have the time to trawl the whole of the city for other options. So , i bought myself Brooks Cascadia 4.It's a gorgeous color, by the way..


So , i got up really early as there were time constraints. I was really looking forward to trying out the new shoes. And in my eagerness, i didn't really think...that it was DARK outside, that the trails would have NO lights in them, that i would sort of be running blindly and not see rocks, ruts, roots till it got light...that i might be stalked by Freddy Krueger and i wouldn't even know..
So, i drove to a forest reserve near where i live. I mean although it was dark, i had already started...so i just followed through. I went to the trail that i normally ran in broad daylight and just plundered through...i could barely see where i was going or what i was stepping on. I almost fell and landed on my head in the dark a few times...and probably sounded like a wild boar plundering though the forest...I'm sure i scared the other wildlife away.
But before long, it grew light...and it was beautiful. The trail was cool and a little breezy. There were sounds of birds chirping and insects saying good morning to one another ( if they could do that:). And running in the trails is so much more interesting. There's a whole lot more to look around you...the terrain is different with laterite and mud roads. There are rock, roots to avoid..and the trail that i run has a waterfall on one side at a certain point. The smell is different too..there's earth, water and wet leaves. The trail is under tree cover...so there are no GPS signals...so i run based on how i feel.I have no idea how far or how long i run...just whether i still can go on or feel like passing out...
The shoes were really nice.They had all this little projections that bit into the dirt. They were light, a little stiff and quite comfortable. Climbing uphill was not a problem too. The laces didn't loosen up as you ran and didn't come undone either. I like that...and they look good!!!
I'm going to like trail running....