First run in ten days! First run in a new pair of vivobarefoot Breathos! 
Started from Freedom Hills and ran around the park and then up the switchbacks when my arms and legs started itching like MAD. This has happened to me a few times before, but it hasn't happened in a while, so I figured my allergies were acting up, especially since the sage brush is really blooming and fragrant right now. Super uncomfortable. Having dealt with it before, I knew if I kept going, it would eventually go away once my body started sweating more. Not a fun way to start a run though. The shoes did really good up the switchbacks. The traction on the bottom of those Breathos is great, but I think I got a European size too big on these... I ran along the Firebreak/BST until above the neighborhoods I grew up in then headed up towards the trail to Sheep Rock instead of taking the firebreak to Rick's canyon - but then headed over above the waterfall and climbed down into it. 
Then I followed the trail out to below the Haddad's house and back onto the Firebreak BST until Parrish Creek - where I saw the windstorm had blown down both the nice trail sign they have off the firebreak road: 
AND a big tree had fallen and smashed part of the great bridge over the stream. 
I went up the canyon a tiny bit to a little waterfall, then went over the fallen tree and up the other side until the bottom of the switchbacks I ran a week and a half ago, then turned around and headed back. After about 5 miles I noticed something about the shoes. I'm not entirely sure if it is because they aren't the right size, or if I'm just not used to this minimal of a shoe while running, or if the mix of hard heavy traction and minimalism was something my legs didn't like, but for the next 2 miles including coming DOWN the Freedom Hills switchbacks I normally blaze down, I was in pain. And a lot slower than I wanted to be. So we'll see how it goes next time I try those shoes out. I don't want to judge them quite yet...
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