001: Run For The Story

When we started down this path we talked all around the idea of a different kind of running group. Something that wasn’t a social fun run, but also wasn’t a hard core race/place/pace oriented outfit.

No, this was about longer-format running and the simple of joy of using your feet to explore, observe and learn something new about our world. And then share a story afterward.

The places we want to run and explore don’t even have to be far away, Maybe they’re neighborhoods and towns we think we know well (but don’t), or all the state and national parks with plenty of stories yet told.

All these conversations kept leading us to discussions and visions of old exploration maps of the world, and especially the outer edges of those maps. The places that hadn’t been explored yet at that time. The places that were marked with the warning, “here be dragons.”

The Terra Incognitas….or in a word, Incognita.

As for the “running collective”? Well, that’s half looking to avoid any clubby vibes and half motivating ourselves and others to plug into a project, join the run, and share a story.