Here goes nothing...

Plain and simple, I'm obsessed with running.

Roads or trails, mountains or cities, in training or just for fun, it's on my mind almost constantly. The only thing that I think would make running even better is other people.

For one reason or another, I've never been able to find anyone or any group that I've really been able to run with on any sort of regular basis. It would have been relatively easy to run with my teammates while playing baseball in college, but many of them were slackers and I wored my ass off, so I tended to be running well ahead of the pack. And I really enjoyed a running group that I found while living in downtown Detroit, but work eventually got hectic and I could no longer make it to the group runs on Tuesdays.

So, when I got a job in Colorado, especially Alamosa, which I had known well before even applying for a job out here was somewhat of a collegiate hotbed of distnace running, I thought for sure I would have no trouble finding a running group that I could run with and just have fun with.

Unfortunately, the closest group I've located is all the way in Pueblo, and a three-hour drive just isn't feasible.

So I've taken this longing for a running group, and for a chance to share my passion with others into my own hands by starting the San Luis Valley Runners. To be honest, though, I'm not exactly sure there isn't already a running group in the valley by the same name, but I have yet to find or hear of one, so here goes.

I hope to make this somewhat of a travelling show. While I live and work in Alamosa, I would love to go to different cities in the Valley each Wednesday for a group run, and give everyone a chance to participate and build the Valley's running community.

I hope that this blog will serve as a spot for ideas to thrown around (though not in a willy-nilly fashion), and allow all runners in the Valley to to expand their running horizons.

So, if your'e interested in something like this, please, leave a comment. I will be trying to spread the word here over the next couple of weeks and seeing what interst there is. Hopefully, I'll be posting about a group run somewhere in the near future and hopefully much, much more to come.

'Til then, so long!

Scott