Running Adventure!
Last winter in the Dominican Republic I had an Indiana Jones type run. We woke on departure day to a tropical rain storm. It had been raining hard all night in fact. The group was supposed to meet at 7:00 for a last run then hit the airport. Earlier in the week we ran a very hilly donkey track of a road up into the foothills of the mountains. The track took us through 3 or so villages, people living on a thread of existence. No power, open sewers, no schools or much of anything. A few goats and scrawny chickens, lots of crying babies and impassable rutted roads. A 10 mile loop course with no turning back. Did I say HILLY?
Well, the group that planned to run with me on the loop decided to sleep in ... or were wimps about a bit of mud. My Chinese buddy Youngmen did finally show up and we decided to go ahead without the safety of a larger group, my usual insurance on such a run.
Burned out? No way!
Burned Out? NO WAY! How can anyone burn out on running? Time to shake things up!
- Plan tomorrow's run for 10 PM ... if you normally run in the morning.
- Run in the woods, if you normally run on the road. How about Maybury State Park at 8 Mile and Beck? The trail is awesome! Especially in the dark with a headlamp!
- Start and finish your run at a lake and dive in ... preferably naked! Yikes!
- Try some GU, new shoes, new route, new run partner or run with a group. Click here for group runs at Running Fit stores.
- Go to a high school track at night and put some beer along the track. Do a few easy, or hard, miles. Finish with a cool down walk with beer in hand. Seeing the beer on each lap is may inspire you.
- Run a race. Don't even make plans; just find one on line (runmichigan.com) and go!
- Get someone to drop you off a long way from home with no way to get back but to run!
- Drive to a spot some evening then run home. In the morning, run back and get your car!
Run Wild,
Randy Step