Obsessed Runner Blog
2023.04.26 - Don't exercise, run!
Many of us, like me, get caught up in our total daily, weekly, and monthly mileage numbers. This can distract us from doing all we can do to be strong, flexible and heathy, so we can do what we love, running. I refer to myself as an obsessed runner and closet triathlete. I switch to triathlon training each summer and I believe in the long run, it has helped my running. I guess it could be called cross training but that term sounds too much like the term exercise, some kind of meaningless torture. I like to say, I’m a runner, I don’t have to exercise to get fit. This is my thought on triathlon training, I’m not cross training, I’m training for my triathlon, so, again, I don’t need to cross train, I’m a triathlete.
Let’s run, bike, swim and do fun stuff so we never have to exercise or cross train!
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner and closet triathlete. If you have not given triathlon a try, take a look at RF Events T-Rex series of Wednesday evening, sprint triathlons. A fun, low key place to start. Yes, you can do this at any level of fitness. Take it slow and get it done, then, feel very proud of yourself and besides saying you are a runner, you can add, I’m also a triathlete! Learn more and sign up now HERE. There is even some room left to enter the training class.
2023.04.19 - Running is Pure
There is no I in team, but there is in Running! Sure, there are teams in
running, but the sport itself is strictly individual. Whether on a team or in a club, members are there just to encourage and support each other. Our sport has no referees or bad calls, just a start line, finish line and a clock running. We just run, it is pure, simple, and we love it! We might call a run, training, or we may call it a race, but it's really just us, putting in the miles we need for fulfillment. Our running disappointments are trivial, injuries keep us learning, and our successes keep the fire lit. May running be the meaning of life? For sure it's leading us to it.
Run forever and ever, amen,
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner, who like you, gets it.
2023.04.05 - Run Proud
My running friend Jane claimed that this week's long run was 1000 times easier because of running with me, as opposed to running it alone. Perhaps an exaggeration, but it puts the difficulty of so many of our daily runs, that we do alone, in perspective.
That said, each mile we put in proves we are just plain awesome, badass athletes, getting in the miles while much of the rest of the world staggers on in a couch potato haze. You can be proud of every run, short or long, fast or slow because you got your butt out the door and NO mile is easy, and that’s what makes our run so rewarding.
Running is tough, so are you,
Randy Step, an admitted obsessed runner, who like you, can be proud of lacing them up and getting it done, every time.