1. You relish the spontaneous nature of open water swimming. Whether it is leaping out of the water because you think a stick is a snake or having someone roughly the size of an NFL linebacker swim over top of you, it’s never the same experience twice. 2. You took up trail running because you …
1. You know you’ve lost your race day mental edge when you see another swimmer panic out of the corner of your eye and completely lose your focus. You roll onto your back and breathe like a steam engine until you see kayaks converging. A voice in your head says that will be the day. …
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1. You try to motivate younger runners with quotes from famous athletes only to find they have no idea who you are talking about. They want to know why they would need to “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee?” 2. The newbie you helped train for his first triathlon and loaned a …
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1. You look for a group exercise class to up your fitness game and get some peer support. You have trouble picking between death by kettlebell, pojo yoga, boxing your blues away, hardcore hula, and trampolines of terror. 2. You think better nutrition might be the answer so after a brief Google search you find …
1. More than once you have finished a race only to find an abandoned finish line and your significant other holding your finisher’s medal which they obtained by promising a blood oath to return if you didn’t make it. 2. After an entire year of training, you finish your first marathon. A friend asks if …
1. You get out of bed thinking about your morning run. You are dismayed by tightness in your left calf, a cramp in your right quads, low back pain, and mild vertigo. You Google your symptoms and diagnose yourself with Cyberchondria. You decide to skip the workout and call in sick/gullible to work. 2. Before …
1. You buy a used Garmin Forerunner 310XT from a friend we’ll call “Dave” to replace your Timex Ironman watch. Immediately you notice changes in your behavior. You drive two miles back home because you forgot your Garmin. You run around the block 7 times to get from 6.67 to 7 miles. You can’t pee …
1. Most bicyclists won’t admit they have moved so many box turtles across the road and taken so many puppies to the front porches that their nickname is usher. That they have given so many kittens a ride home in a jersey pocket that their bike is now called the ark. 2. Most bicyclists won’t …
1) You decide to do your first half marathon and figue a trail run will be more scenic. You pick the Morris Broadband DuPont Half Marathon, forgetting Brevard, NC, is in the mountains. After somehow surviving the race you find the elevation profile online and notice it has a striking resemblance to the EKG of …
1. Trail runners know that running gets better once you cross the tree line. And it’s easier to pee without people seeing you. 2. Trail runners know the transcendent beauty of each season. And need a little red wagon to carry all the necessary layers for Spring and Fall. 3. Trail runners are in touch …
