Things have changed, I see it so often and even my own son was guilty of being glued to his phone before he started working full time, college full time, and a girlfriend mixed in too. However, as I listened to this on Sunday morning, I was about 40 hours in of a 48 hour trail race. There were 350 runners, plus their families or friends …
Things have changed, I see it so often and even my own son was guilty of being glued to his phone before he started working full time, college full time, and a girlfriend mixed in too. However, as I listened to this on Sunday morning, I was about 40 hours in of a 48 hour trail race. There were 350 runners, plus their families or friends there. At least 20 runners were under the age of 16 and as young as 7. The "tent camp" was full of the families and friends. The playground of the farm was full of the younger kids. I never saw anyone bored or killing time on their phones. The trail/ultra running community is such a great experience.
But, listening to this out loud with all the people on the trail around me, I felt proud that this community of very different human beings were not bored, no one needed TVs or phones or anything to ward off any boredom. It was just miles and miles of dirt roads, campfires, food, music and fun with random people from all over the country. 20,844 miles where covered over the weekend on the farm by just the registered runners and I never heard anyone say they were bored...
Things have changed, I see it so often and even my own son was guilty of being glued to his phone before he started working full time, college full time, and a girlfriend mixed in too. However, as I listened to this on Sunday morning, I was about 40 hours in of a 48 hour trail race. There were 350 runners, plus their families or friends there. At least 20 runners were under the age of 16 and as young as 7. The "tent camp" was full of the families and friends. The playground of the farm was full of the younger kids. I never saw anyone bored or killing time on their phones. The trail/ultra running community is such a great experience.
But, listening to this out loud with all the people on the trail around me, I felt proud that this community of very different human beings were not bored, no one needed TVs or phones or anything to ward off any boredom. It was just miles and miles of dirt roads, campfires, food, music and fun with random people from all over the country. 20,844 miles where covered over the weekend on the farm by just the registered runners and I never heard anyone say they were bored...