Obsessed Runner Blog
2016-10-05 - Your running year is planned!
RF events has welded its 2017 event calendar, check it out at the end of this rant. The passion, creativity and dedication to detail of the crew I work with here at RF Events give me the confidence to say that you can trust your training and hard earned entry fee money to any of these events. Perhaps more importantly, these events will add to the richness of your running life and make you smile. Save the dates!!! That said, 2016 is not over, there is still time to join us at Run Scream Run 5K, 10K and Cider Mill Mile at Wiard's Orchard this Saturday, Vasa 5K, 10K and 25K trail run in Traverse City November 12th, The Ann Arbor Turkey Trot 5K on Thanksgiving Day and the Holiday Hustle 5K and 1 Mile in Dexter, December 10th.
Next week, October 14th - 16th is The Detroit Free Press Marathon weekend, kind of like homecoming for the running community. A big event where some of us will run, some of us will cheer and some of us will just go down to the expo Friday and Saturday to hang around people of our ilk. Come and say hi at the RF Events booth and pick up our 2017 event calendar magnet, a friendly oasis of a booth where we won't event try to sell you anything!
Every mile prepares you for greatness, get out and run!
PS: Here is that sneak peak of our 2017 calendar! Be sure to pick up your magnet at the Detroit Free Press Marathon Expo... and plan your year with RF Events!
2016-09-28 - The best day to run is... Today!
Unlike so many other sports our running season never comes to an end... We don't have to pack away our gear at the end of the year because there are 365 days and every day is ours! The seasons change and today we might bring warmer gear to the top of the pile but it's a wonderfully simple sport so it all fits on a shelf or two. The best time of year to run and the best day to run is always, TODAY! All we have to decide is how far and what to wear. That said... Fall is pretty dang special. Ha.
Run like there will be no tomorrow,
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner who likes the leaves, snow, rain and sunshine to fall on me during the run.
PS: Crisp fall weather, apple orchards, costumes, zombies and RUNNING, the perfect combination, join me for Run Scream Run at Wiard's Orchard and Haunted Thrill Park Saturday morning October 8th. Come to Friday night packet pick up and hit the Night Terrors to get in the mood! Yikes!
PS: Perhaps the oldest family running tradition is the Turkey Trot. Sharon and Ron Suffolk of Good Boy Events started "The Ann Arbor Turkey Trot" in downtown Ann Arbor, on Thanksgiving day 10 years ago, as Ron celebrates his 70th year of life he has placed this race in the hands of RF Events, insuring this tradition to go on. We are excited to keep the torch lit! Start or continue the tradition, grab the family and join us! http://theturkeytrot.com/ Run, then eat, it gets no better!
2016-09-12 - Running traditions bring meaning to life
Our sport's roots go back to the ancient Greek Olympics, add to that historic races like the 121 year old Boston Marathon and we can agree that running as a sport is not a fad and has an excellent foundation. That said, most of us won't be running in the Olympics and even qualifying for Boston may be a stretch but we each have our own traditions that personally motivate us and add so much to our running lives. I love this stuff and have devoted much of my life to creating events that I can only hope are worthy of tradition, especially family friendly races where we can invite non-runners to join us for their first 5K and to start family traditions, like "Run Scream Run" and "Scrumpy Skedaddle" in the fall, "The Holiday Hustle" in December or the "Super 5K" on Super Bowl Sunday. We will all be gone someday but these family traditions, that we can play a part in starting, will live on.
Start a tradition and become part of the run forever,
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner who loves this stuff.
PS: Perhaps the oldest family running tradition is the Turkey Trot. Sharon and Ron Suffolk of Good Boy Events started "The Ann Arbor Turkey Trot" in downtown Ann Arbor, on Thanksgiving day 10 years ago, as Ron celebrates his 70th year of life he has placed this race in the hands of RF Events, insuring this tradition to go on. We are excited to keep the torch lit! Start or continue the tradition, grab the family and join us! http://theturkeytrot.com/ Run, then eat, it gets no better!
PS: Speaking of tradition, families and FUN... Registration for the Holiday Hustle is NOW OPEN! Don't miss this festive tradition in Dexter, MI on Saturday afternoon, December 10th! Festive puff-ball beanie to all entrants, FUN gingerbread man medals to all 5K finishers... Check it out!