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.

The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons why I Run

Here's the quintessential graphic novel that explains why we run.  Click in!  It's like six pages long.  Enjoy!

The Oatmeal.

You need a vitamin run. Do you have one?

So lets' get this running blog going!

Today I started the year with a 4 mile slow jog around a lollipop route in my neighborhood that we used to call "Nolts Ponds", because it snakes through a farm with ponds.

However, my son Jody ran this route once, and he announced it "Just enough; like taking your vitamins."  So from that time on, this course has been renamed "The Vitamin Run", or more simply "Vitamins".  As in "I ran vitamins".

You need to find your vitamin route, and then your minimum running program should be to run it every other day.  Of course you'll do more running than this, but when life gets hectic, you can get by on the bare minimum.  Your vitamin run.  Go find it.

FYI - I don't take actual vitamins.  I prefer real food, or at least food that the food industry attempts to present as real food.