Are you a lone wolf runner? Have you ever wanted to start your own wolfpack of runners, slashing through the woods and engulfing the streets in your local domain? The movie “The Hangover” gives a good example of what it means to be in a wolfpack; check out this funny clip. So how do you start your own pack of running wolves?
First, you must learn your domain. Take some time as a lone wolf runner to learn the area around you and come up with some great running routes. Running wolves like to join wolfpacks that vary in locations and distances from week to week, but starting from the same home base. Wolves are very territorial. Pick a central location for your running wolf pack to meet and mix up the routes with trails and streets in your area. Wolves love to run through the woods, but also like crowding the streets at night while potentially howling at the moon.
Once you have your wolfpack routes, visit your local running club to recruit runners to join your wolfpack. Make sure to run with runners of similar ability, age, and training schedule. Running wolves like to go fast, so they typically want to join a wolfpack that challenges their ability, but provides support from the pack.
Running in a wolfpack can be very beneficial for all types runners. For instance, if one wolf gets injured, the rest of the pack can take the runner back to safety. It is particularly beneficial to run with a wolfpack at night because potential attackers will be likely to attack a pack than you running as a lone wolf. Running in a wolfpack will also increase your performance as you vie for positioning within the pack. You can organize a wolfpack, but that doesn’t make you the leader of the pack. Push yourself to become top dog.
Running in wolf packs can be a great way to expand your social circle and develop a tight group of similar wolf runners. You can even go to races and wear the same T-shirts! Check out this sweet wolf pack T-shirt; don’t forget to read the customer comments, they’re pretty entertaining.
Here is more information to help you find the perfect running partners for your wolfpack. At first you were one wolf in a running wolfpack, now there can be two wolves in the pack, so it’s a pack of two…running wolves