Obsessed Runner Blog
2024.01.10 - Listen to the run
Some runs seem to go on forever with 3 miles feeling like 5, and on others, the miles fly by. This is not a listen to your body lecture because often, everything feels just fine, it’s just the miles feeling unequal. Sure, some of it is just a mind game due to a busy life with so much required of a day besides the daily run. Our brain can’t help but go there, taking our focus off living in the moment, but that’s not always the case. Some days, the run seems to be giving us a gift, magical miles that go by in an instant, regardless of whatever else is going on in life. On such days, when the run is offering 10 miles for a 5 mile effort, it’s time to listen. When it’s over, we can then make the excuses why we are late.
Don’t look a gift run in the mouth, there may be one coming your way today,
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner, often without answers, just observations from a life on the run.
2024.01.03 - Sharing the run
I admit, I look daily at posts about runs and running plans on Strava and other social media. Some current posts, New Year’s Day run, keeping the tradition alive; Today I registered for the Super 5K!; Starting off 2024 with a 14 mile run! These posts can motivate and inspire, and they say, joy shared is joy increased! That said, there are perhaps as many people hurting out there, not able to get in their run. Sickness and injury strike us all at times. There are certainly fewer posts about missing days or recovery from injury. It's also said that grief shared is grief diminished. Please share your running joy, or pain, today. We need each other!
Smoke em if ya got em’ (translated: get that run in if you can!)
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner, who is currently walking, but hopes to soon be back on the run!
2023.12.20 - Road Trip Running
During road trips it’s nice to get out of the car, stretch, and run somewhere fun and new, then climb back in the car rejuvenated and get back to it. Start by asking Siri or Alexa for directions, then check the map over to see what parks or places along the way look like good spots to break up the drive and add some adventure. For example, on a recent Chicago trip, we stopped to run some great trails at Ft. Custer in Battle Creek, perfectly breaking the drive in half! Another recent trip heading home from Philly, we decided to check out the iconic Lincoln Highway, and a remote Pennsylvania State Park with a 5 mile loop trail around a mountain lake. Just a couple miles after the stop we came across, first the debris field, then the National Monument in remembrance of the heroic actions from 9/11’s flight 93. This was not on our radar at all, and without choosing this run, we would have missed this incredible tribute.
Keep running, keep exploring,
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner, who seems to change clothes more in my car than in my house!