Tarmac Mediations #64: Every Footstep Beautiful

A runner discovers beauty in running hard, getting dirty and seeing the sunset

December 20, 2010

Shot the “Frozen Trail RunFest” with Phil Johnson and Jay Schwartz yesterday. Nine-plus hours on my feet was hard on me but nowhere near the effort of the runners, Erik, Bob, Dan, Kristi, Jerry, Pam, and the aid-station folks, Laura and her “dirty mothers”.

Today came the Winter Solstice 5K…new course record, great prizes…Eclectic Edge Racing rules! Dan Olmstead on Mt. Pisgah in the Frozen Trail Run Fest 50K…thanks to Phil Johnson, shooting for the LongRun Picture Company, we can have an image in the “real” to support the imagination of every trail runner I know who in their heads sees themselves just like this; muddied, going hard uphill, sun going down, time to get it done, writing their own story with every footstep. Beautiful.