Adventure Pace Running

There’s nothing more generically thrilling than running under a constrained system—
of time.

Give yourself a block.
Complete a trajectory.
But make it open-ended.

Let your intuition lead.
Shorten the cuts.
Choose the side streets.
Your pace calibrates itself—

I must be back by 9:25.

And your body knows.

Yet in a continuous calculation—
risk and reward,
distance battling punctuality.

Your eyes scan the landscape,
seeking symbiotic ways to juggle the tradeoff.
Make the cutoff.
Satisfy the compulsion.

To thread the needle.

Leave it open.
Leave it organic.
But keep it constrained.

That’s the beauty of it.