Find Something To Do

If you are going to be out there pounding the roads for 45 minutes, it's important for you to find something to do.  Otherwise, you will just be tortured by daemons and haunted by the thoughts of all your past mistakes and failures.  The common ways to occupy your mind are:

• Music.  Wear earbuds and listen to music.

Earbuds

• Learn a language instead of listening to music.
• Listen to Supreme Court arguments.  You freak.
• Run with a friend.
• Run with a dog.
• Run to a bar.  Then run back.
• Run with friends to a bar.
• Run on a trail with technical footing.
• Run pushing a baby in a stroller
• Run in ALL weather conditions.
• Run at night, then run in the daytime.
• Stop and take photos along the way.

Photo of Lancaster Junction Trail, Lancaster PA, USA

My favorite is to take pictures.  I always have a phone or a waterproof camera, and wile away the miles looking for interesting things to take photos of.  Then when I get home I post them to all those good places like Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr and Blogger.

I have a sweet little Fujifilm XP70 Camera.  More on that in another post.