Obsessed Runner Blog
2023.10.18 - Holiday Running
As the glory of fall fades away so does the motivation to get in the miles. With darker and colder days ahead, and our target, goal races behind us, I find by having a couple holiday runs on the schedule, your motivational chances are better. Yes, we don’t have to take these races so serious, and we can get by with the fitness we worked on through the year, but a race is a race and knowing that we have another starting line to toe will get us out the door. Now for the shameless plug!
The Ann Arbor Turkey Trot is the perfect way to start Thanksgiving Day with a couple thousand friends, leaving plenty of time to get home to cook the bird and watch the team in Honolulu Blue! Enter today to give yourself over a month of motivation! Finish out the year with the Holiday Hustle in Dexter on December 2nd, then enjoy a couple months of what I call off season, with maintenance runs to hold on to some fitness.
Gobble, Gobble, Ho, Ho, Go!
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner who also thinks you should plan to join me for a winter road trip to Traverse City for the Bigfoot Snowshoe Race, January 27th, then, the Super 5K in Novi, February 11th, where we earn our spot on the couch for the big game!
2023.10.01 - Today's run is crucial
The most important day of our life is today, now, is our only chance to live in the moment. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow may or may not come. The next most important day may be an upcoming race you are targeting, perhaps a job interview or a vacation, but besides thinking and planning, make sure to take personal time today to live, grow and be fulfilled. Today’s run can do just that, if you let it.
Get your butt out the door,
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner, who admits that for me, it takes an effort to live in the moment, even on the run. Again, I write this email to poke myself so … I don’t miss the wonder that is right in front of me. Right now.
2023.10.04 - Running and Ego
A topic that is always current, especially with social media running applications like Strava. It makes perfect sense that we should not compare ourselves to others, we are completely unique, our age, genetics, work and family life, past injuries and medical issues make us who we are, and only we can know and take pride in what it took to get in these hard earned miles. That said, I find myself falling into this mental trap more times than I’d like to admit. I finish up a glorious fall, 4 mile, quick paced run and save it on Strava, then take a look to see what others are up to on this perfect morning, and see runs of 12 miles, 15 miles, whatever, done at a pace faster than my race pace. I should be thinking, it’s wonderful to see so many other, fit, healthy runners out there enjoying this day as I am, we are kindred spirits who get it, their run should not in diminish my effort in anyway but, dang, that ego.
You and your run are perfect,
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner who is proud of every mile you put in, I get it, you get it. Amen.