Oh what a week. National Trails Day and National Running Day all in the same week! It’s like Christmas and Hanukkah in the same week! Wait. That doesn’t make sense. Anyway, happy National Trails Day! Although, you should be celebrating running and trails everyday, but National Trails Day is a good excuse to think about your beloved trails…to run on!
But in case you read this post too late today to plan a celebration for your trails don’t fret, National Trail Running Day is August 22nd! I am going to combine the powers of both of these events to make one ultra (pun-intended) powerful event, NATIONAL TRAIL RUNNING DAY! That’s right, you heard it here first. A great day of celebration for trail running. The Trail Running Industry is coming together, with SeriousRunning.com the leader in trail running information and listings leading the way, to celebrate trail running on August 22nd. That’s it. National Trail Running Day is August 22nd. It’s official. It’s so official it’s like “relationship status” on Facebook official. Yeah, that official. So tell your friends, tell the trails you run on, get your Hallmark cards now, and no matter what else you may hear later, August 22nd is the official National Trail Running Day date. Believe it. I know. That just happened. Call my lawyer if you have any questions. He’s the same guy that represents Dwight Howard and T.I. So yeah, you don’t want to mess with this…unless maybe you’re Kobe Bryant. Then you don’t mind messing with Dwight Howard. But T.I. does ‘whatever he likes.’ Well, sorta.
So what should you do on National Trail Running Day? Well it’s simple. Go trail running. Maybe appreciate the trail you are running on more. Perhaps you can volunteer to help take care of your favorite trail running trails along with friends. Or you can invite friends to join you that have never been on a trail run. Decide to register for a cool trail race. Hand out SeriousRunning.com fliers to people on the street. Wear your SeriousRunning.com T-shirt. All great ways to celebrate! If you are too busy to do anything of these things, then just simple go Trail Running. It doesn’t get any simpler than that!
So celebrate National Trails Day today and go for a trail run. Don’t wear yourself out though, National Trail Running Day is coming soon!
[…] I came across an article in the Mansfield News Journal the other day talking about the second running boom spreading across America. The first boom came in 1972 when Frank Shorter won the Olympic Marathon. About the same time period as the Frisbee boom and the not-showering boom. I’m glad that the running boom has been the only boom to stick around. So why would there be another boom if American’s interest in running hasn’t changed? The economy. As people begin to lose their wealth they have begun to get back to the basics and appreciate the simpler things in life again, like running. I’m actually going to take it one step further and say the next real boom is going to be trail running. You heard it here first. It’s going to be like the running boom of the 70s but now since we have more of an emphasis on nature, the environment, and getting away from the concrete jungles, trail running is going to be the heat. Or a way to escape the heat of global warming. Trail Running is going to get the real boom. I’m telling you, we need to take National Running Day one step farther and have a National Trail Running Day. Word. […]