Obsessed Runner Blog
2013-05-01 - This Running Life
Yo run gang,
May 1, 2013
It's a busy but fun, running life that we lead. While most Americans make pretty poor choices to use up their leisure time, mostly as spectators and watching life go by on TV, we are outside and doing it! We are happy to fill up our calendars with fitness goals and commit! Here are some great choices.
Feeling spontaneous? Make the easy 5 hour drive to Nashville, Indiana with the Running Fit event crew for the Dances With Dirt Trail races on May 11th. Billed as the world's toughest 10K! Nashville, IN is an artisan town with over 200 artsy shops in the mountains of Indiana (Seriously, mountains!) go to dwdgnawbone.com
The kids stuff is the best stuff! Girls on the Run 5k, Sunday, May 19th, is the culmination of Girls on the Run's season. More than 1,200 girls ages 8-14, will celebrate their "girl power" by running 3.1 miles with their coaches, families, friends, teachers and community members. This event is open to anyone who wants to run, walk, or skip to the finish line! The Girls on the Run 5k is a non-competitive, celebration 5k, and all finishers will receive a medal. girlsontherunsemi.org/events/GOTR-events.php for more information about volunteering or to register.
A great summer road trip is to the Traverse City Cherry Festival, a great chance to take family and friends north, while you sneak in a race! The 5K, 15K event is July 6th. If you win, you'll get to ride in the parade in the Running Fit VW bug convertible! www.cherryfestival.org/festival-of-races
By committing to a long run in the fall, you insure consistency to your summer training. My absolute favorite event, Run Woodstock, is September 6-8, a classic rock weekend to camp out on the land and set your soul free. We all need this weekend in the woods! 5K to 100 miles, dig it. runwoodstock.com
The heroic actions by the first responders at the tragic events in Boston this spring reminds us that every day, Police, Fire and EMS are out their risking their lives for all of us. I'm hoping you will join us on October 5th for the "Heroes on Hines Half Marathon and 5K". The proceeds will go to build and support a memorial to local, fallen first responders, a place for families and the community to mourn and celebrate the lives of these heroes. Please be a Hero on Hines! Please enter today at heroesonhines.com
For more events to load up the calendar for a fulfilling life go to runningfit.com/calendar
Live, love, run,
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner, loving this running life.
2012-02-08 - All I Really Need To Know
How does that go? ... All I really need to know I learned by running a marathon!
I learned long term goal planning, time management and what is meant by delayed gratification. I learned about my body, how to eat healthy and get enough rest. I learned anger management (in the late miles), how to deal with success and how to deal with failure. I learned who I was and who I could be. Yes, somewhat clich, but running a marathon will change your life forever, I suggest you move it up on the bucket list if you haven't already.
Running Fit offers Running 101, a class for the beginning runner. So it only made sense to offer a 500 level class when you talk half marathon and marathon distance! Check out Running Fit 501, all other credit hours you have earned will pale in comparison. runningfit501.com
--Randy Step, an obsessed runner on the road in search of a ... doctorial degree in running!
2012-06-06 - The world will run as one
For us who have been lucky enough to embrace running as a lifestyle, every day is National Running Day, for the rest of the world, it's today! When I hear John Lennon's song, "Imagine", I can't help but imagining a world where everyone is a runner ... Maybe someday they'll join us, and the world will run as one. For now, let's get out there and set the example, better yet, invite a non runner out for a walk/run and share the gift.
The Canton Liberty Run 5K & 10K is Saturday June 16th, we really need you to join us as we set the record for the most people dressed as a monument, not to mention, we bought 1,600 costumes and based on entries we will only have 1,300 entrants ... We need you! You don't need to run in the costume, just to wear it for 10 minutes as we gather together and look silly! (But yes, we'd love to have you run in it!). Enter today at cantonlibertyrun.com, pretty please!
Run for Liberty,
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner, getting ready to go out and celebrate today with a run with the world!