Adventure Pace Running

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance touched on this.
Robert Pirsig wrote that riding a motorcycle allows you to interface with the world in a more meaningful way—
unlike being sealed behind the steel curtain of a car.

I feel the same about running and cycling.
They allow you to meet the world—
not just pass through it.

Running, even more than cycling, is intimate.
You’re unarmored. Approachable.
There’s no dismounting. No worry about a bike being stolen.
You can hop into a store, a museum, a coffee shop—
fluidly, freely, without breaking stride.

And if you’re lucky,
you’re in that runner’s high—
a state that opens you up to the world in new ways.
A state that lends itself to kindness,
to gratitude,
to compassion,
to an openness to experience.

This, to me, is what defines adventure running.
Especially in cities.

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