A few seconds after I walked in the door on a recent afternoon, Hilary asked, 鈥淗ow was your run?鈥 And I immediately replied, 鈥淕ood,鈥 without even thinking about it, which is what I do most of the time, unless something notable happens, in which case I might say something like, 鈥淕ood鈥擨 saw a heron the size of a giraffe, over by the river.鈥
But sometimes things do go wrong on my runs. Usually nothing catastrophic, but little things. And I started thinking: Maybe I should make a sort of post-run questionnaire, kind of like the comment cards you sometimes see in restaurants to encourage you to rate your experience.
So I did that. Here it is鈥擨 hope it helps.
Brendan Leonard鈥檚 latest book, Have Fun Out There or Not: The Semi-Rad Running Essays,