Running

It is so nice being able to run outside in shorts in the middle of February.  A huge change from Minnesota and a great change at that.  The scenery is a lot different too.  Over here you can see the ocean out of one eye and in the other one you can see mountains.

It is a little distracting when your running but in a good way.  There aren't any trails in Louisburgh so your running on the road but once you get out of the little town the roads are so tiny that it does feel like your running on a trail.  There are also different different loops marked with signs to help us Americans not get lost.

This loop runs right next to the ocean for a bit but there is a giant hill.  You can see it the background of the last picture.  It is .30 miles up and .25 miles back down.  Once you get to the top you do feel like your on top of the world.  You can see for about 20 miles on a clear day.  You can see the Atlantic ocean on one side with a couple of beaches and where the Bunowen river spills into the Atlantic ocean.

Also when you reach the top of the hill you can see over the whole little town of Louisburgh.  It looks even smaller than it is and that's saying something because the population of Louisbugh is 422.

   Also the beaches in Louisburgh are easy to run to but not to run on.  Well running on a beach is never easy but with all the bad weather that Ireland has been getting the beaches are covered in seaweed.  This seaweed smells bad and is incredibly slippery.

 

With all the bad weather it is cool to run to the rocks when there are big waves and see the waves crash into the rocks.