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Don’t Pack Your Running Shoes

Sara Burdick
2 min readOct 2, 2021

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Stop, put them down.

Photo by Isaac Wendland on Unsplash

Stop, walk away from the running shoes. Trust me, you will not use them!

So you are going on vacation. The perfect time to rest, take some time for yourself. Maybe finally start a morning habit of running. Since you will stay at the beach with plenty of room to run!

You imagine. 6 AM, you wake up before anyone else in your hotel room, your kids/spouse are fast asleep. You can catch the sunrise over the ocean, shops just opening.

Listening to the birds as you run, since at home there are always tons of cars and you hate always running into someone you know. But not here. You won't have to worry about cars or people.

It’s the perfect time to get back into running, or start running ….Isn’t it?

Let’s have a come-to Jesus moment here. You will not get up at 6 AM and run.

But first, let me make sure I am right.

Ask yourself this question, just humor me.

Are you a daily runner now?

Do you get up every single day and run no matter what?

Do you actually know what a runner's high is?

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Sara Burdick
Sara Burdick

Written by Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://substack.com/@saraburdick

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