The Running World’s Ultimate..Ultimate.

The wind rustles over the brush on a misty forest morning. Or so it seems. This wind is not natural though, but it is as natural as a human presence can be in the forest. This wind is caused by the effortless motion of a trail runner, gliding through the trees, over the hills and down through the valley with ease.
These runners are the luckiest of the running world. To save their shins from ultimate destruction via roads/treadmills, they capitalize their access (or willingness to drive) to trails, where they find the true spirit and heart of running. Why don’t we all run like the them? Because the trail runner is a special kind of runner, one with a different sort of grit than those road racers, gym rats and yoggers.
The trail runner is the renaissance of runners. He has returned and reawakened into nature. His grit comes from his ability to climb, push and run harder through all manner of footing. His challenge is his perk; the beautiful, calm scenery around him begs him to stop and dawdle, and if he were a weaker being he would stop to look, but instead the scenery drives him on, higher, harder and longer. The trail runner has infinite hours alone with his own being; the trail runner logs his miles as he delves deeper into himself. He allows the troubles to the world to shed off with each mile. Trail runners have something to teach us, but after all their miles alone, maybe they have forgotten how to do so with words. They can, undoubtedly, show.
Trail runners are not a cliquey group, and if some essence of your being is longing for misty mornings galloping down hills and across streams, no other escape awaits you like the trails. State and county parks are some of the best places to start, and if racing is in the plans, trail races range from easy 5ks, to 10ks, and even 50k’s, which, known as Ultimates, are the end of the extreme and the test of tests.
Trail runners have one thing figured out, and it isn’t just that humans need exercise to survive. It’s that humans need release to survive. And they have found theirs on the trail.