Litchfield, MN

Town Streets

Run Time: 42:47 + 2:00 minute kick

A long time since I ran on a work trip. Winter work travel is greatly reduced. Stayed home for four straight weeks over Christmas and New Year. Had one trip cancelled because Boeing can’t keep all the doors on their planes. Had another trip postponed because it was too cold and arctic. Then when I made that trip through Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, outside running conditions were inconducive.

I started carrying a journal on my work trips. The first trip had lots of funny musings and deep thoughts mixed in with work notes. This week’s was a few lines each day – who I visited where and how many catalogs I gave them. Scintillating. If I journal, when I journal, I journal to remember. I do not journal for non-practical reasons. I often hear a podcaster recommend journaling. Dude, I have written two complete books, finished a first draft on another, and started at least a dozen more. I have been journaling since third grade. I have worked it all out and through multiple times.

Litchfield was a little sketchy. I wouldn’t want to run where I ran after dark. I didn’t get to the hotel till 5, so I cut 20 minutes off my run time. But it felt great. If you travel, run or work out right when you get to the hotel. Just knock it out. You’ll feel better. Arnold agrees with me.

There will be times and later daylights that will let me stretch out and do my full runs when I go on the road. Spring will be here soon, and I will be on the lookout for the hidden trail, and hoping to revisit the good finds from the last two years. You can’t stay in the same city every time you go through the same area — it just doesn’t pencil out. I am not sure I have repeated a run in almost 3 years of doing this, except for the trail system in MD by the hotel I stay at for multiple days when I visit our corporate office. Maybe this year I can get back to that canal trail in Billings, or the trails along the Snake River in Twin Falls, or the Sag Trail in Illinois.