Obsessed Runner Blog
2024.10.16 - Run a mile when you have no time to
We all have days, weeks, even years when the world overwhelms us. Periods of our live that are all consuming, it’s not right or wrong, just reality. Family crisis, impossible work deadlines, medical nightmares, deaths, hurricanes … Tragedy is a part of life, it will find us. During these times we may go for days without a run. The run may stay out of reach, or for sure seem out of reach, but, getting out the door for just a mile or two may be an important part of mental survival, something that keeps you intact and able to function. Forget long runs, but enough to breath, and to be in a different moment, to feel the natural world. Like plugging in a phone at 8% for just a couple minutes and finding it at 40%. If you run yourself to zero, what you thought was the worst will surely be the worst. Take an unselfish few minutes to be of value to others.
Run when you’re sure you can’t,
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner who writes this stuff to himself, because the concept is a difficult one to pull off during dark times.
2024.10.02 - Run into the light
It’s official, less than 12 of our allotted 24 hours are in the light. I admit not being a morning person, but it’s currently dark at 7am so yes, even I can be found heading out the door before daylight. That said, there is some magic in heading out in the dark and running into sunrise. Even a short morning run seems to span more than a day when going from night into day, somehow rewarding us with so much more than the sum of its miles and minutes we see on our Garmin/Strava, or whatever. Enjoy every day of this sweet spot, soon, some of us will miss sunrise all together, most likely we will be in the shower as it takes place after the run … A run that will still be totally worth it and rewarding as always!
Run into the sun,
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner whose headlamp is charging, and alarm is set, dig it!
2024.09.05 - Imagine if we all ran
Two weeks ago we celebrated with peace, love and running at Run Woodstock with temps in the 50’s, only to come back to 80 degrees of Hell at Dances With Dirt, how appropriate! It seems like every run comes with a bit of heaven and hell, always hard, always rewarding, not an escape from life but perhaps the best part of life itself. I’m still cruising on an event high no drugs can match. Perhaps it’s accelerated by the counter culture nature of what we do. The sedentary world in their couch potato haze, with screen time hours matching our Strava or Garmin miles, must see us as strange creatures living on the dark side. There is something about this that adds to the bad ass nature of distance runners. We are like members of a gang who have found a world to belong to, a world of adventure that sets our souls free. Dig it!
Run and invite the world to join us,
Randy Step an admitted obsessed runner about to open the door and do what we do. John Lennon said it best :
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will live as one