National Running Day

   Today is National Running Day! And the staff here at HTH want you to go outside and run. We don't want you to worry about your specialty running shoes, racing socks, GPS watches, your mile time, your gels, your personal records, or anything of the sort. In fact, we want you to forget all of that. We want you to revert to how you felt about running when you were in elementary school and your class finally got to go outside and you broke free from the classroom and the line as soon as your teacher gave you the word because there were 30 people in your class and there were only 10 swings. Run up hills not because they will make you faster, but for the view from the top. Run as fast as you possibly can not because it will help you increase your VO2 capacity, but because you like the feel of the wind in your hair. Challenge someone to race and try to remember how much fun the 50 yard dash was at school back when races were free, didn't come with a t-shirt, and you felt like you could beat everyone that was at the starting line because there was a blue ribbon at stake and bragging rights the next day in the cafeteria. Run alone to remember what it is to think your own thoughts. Run without music and remember what your gloriously created body sounds like and the very alive world around you. Run in a pack and draw your strength from the bodies around you. No matter how you celebrate today, we just want you to get out there and run like did when you did it for fun and for that alone. 

Happy Running,

   David

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