Comments on: True Confessions of a Trail-Running Traitor

By: True Confessions of a Trail-Running Traitor « Sports News

True Confessions of a Trail-Running Traitor « Sports News — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:52:55 +0000

[...] read more | digg story [...]

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:54:51 +0000

Thanks for the comments everyone. Chris, you mentioned the big side benefit that I left out: the lower impact. That’s a huge consideration, especially as we all get older

By: Blaine Moore (Run to Win)

Blaine Moore (Run to Win) — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:21:54 +0000

Well, Dawn, I don’t know about that…I can think of a few things that might be more fun that can be done in sneakers. Not that they usually are…

By: Dawn - Pink Chick

Dawn - Pink Chick — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:53:24 +0000

Trail running is the most fun one can have in sneakers.

By: Chris Brogan...

Chris Brogan... — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:49:03 +0000

Being that I used to be almost exclusively a trail runner, I’m 100% down with a sport that, to me, is nicer to my body (less impact on knees), more challenging (jumping roots, scurrying down gravel hills, fording streams, and avoiding interesting beasts), and has better scenery (my state park system is better than the neighborhood car washing community).

I think you’ve found the better path. : )

By: Blaine Moore (Run to Win)

Blaine Moore (Run to Win) — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:35:42 +0000

I can not relate at all, especially to your “typical responses”! Trail running is great, and it is something I should start doing more of.

My favorite season all through school was cross country season, and most of my training runs (when I could swing it) would be off on trails. We had a small loop beside the locker room that we could run for a warm up before a track workout or when we were hurt (it was very soft), and there were cool trails a few miles down the road that went out as far as you cared to run at any given time, and we had power trails in the other direction that got us to a couple of different parks and had some side routes to other trails on its own rights. I hear that they recently cleaned power trails up and made it easier to use, as well.

I have found a few trails since I moved into my house in April, but I have not yet determined which trails are public and which are private so I have not explored them yet.

Trail running can have its own clique of runners, but I have never gotten the feeling that they feel ostracized from the running community as a whole. Maybe that’s because in college I didn’t care and here in Maine nobody is bothered, or maybe you are just fabricating this in your head. I don’t know.

I suggest you suggest that you bring some of your running buddies out on the trails with you some time. They’ll probably enjoy themselves.