Something You Didn’t Want to Find on Your Run
By Rocky Thompson on October 25th, 2011
Scott Dunlap, writer of A Trail Runner’s Blog had a memorable find on his Sunday morning run in the woods. A body. He was the second on the scene and waited with a cyclist who made the grisly discovery. You hear about these things happening all the time, but it’s somehow unsettling to hear a first person account. The death turned out to be a suicide. Though in the end, I thought Scott offered some fantastic advice:
I selfishly thought “that’s too bad…he missed one of the best sunrises all year long”. But I suspect he was in the shadow of bigger demons.
So in case this doesn’t go without saying, if you’re thinking about ending it all in one of the parks near my neighborhood, at least wait long enough for us to have one more sunrise run and a breakfast beer. It just might be enough to live for.
It was an odd experience, that’s for sure. Maybe heading up past Everest Base Camp you expect to see a body or two, but not on the neighborhood run. Second death this year in that park, but I didn’t find the other body…otherwise I would have a LOT of explaining to do.
There’s always one more great sunrise, people.