[Editor’s Note: This month’s Community Voices submission is by guest writer Sky Couvreux about his relationship with running. Welcome and thank you, Sky!]
Hello! My title is Sky Couvreux, I’m a 12-year-old boy, and I dwell in Redstone, Colorado. A buddy of my mother’s informed us he didn’t know many path operating youngsters, and was curious if I’d share just a little bit about my operating.
My motivation in operating is to have the ability to get to locations far out in nature, the place the solar is heat, the path is sweet, and the mountains are inexperienced, white, and exquisite. Chilly river dunks and excessive mountain passes are additionally excessive on my listing. I’ve lived in Colorado my complete life, and have spent a whole lot of my childhood outside.
Typically I see a mountain peak and assume, I need to run to the highest of THAT mountain. So then, with my mother and father, we discover the paths and go. I all the time knew that was not how each child noticed peaks round them, and knew not each mum or dad took their youngsters to mountain summits.
Sky Couvreux (third from the left) with household on Mount Rainier in 2020. All pictures courtesy of Chloe Couvreux.
Path operating has all the time been part of my life. My mother and father are long-distance path runners. I used to be taken alongside on path hikes, to mountain tops, and on stroller runs as quickly as I used to be born. I’ve run, performed, and scrambled on trails for way back to I can keep in mind.
My first actual path run by myself energy alone was once I was 4, on a brief path on Flagstaff Mountain in Boulder, Colorado. My mother and father drove two automobiles, dropped one off on the backside of the hill, and all of us drove to the higher trailhead. My mother and father, my little brother, and I bombed it down the hill, operating, enjoying, and leaping. This was my first path run and our first household path run. I’ve by no means run on a observe, and solely a couple of times on paved roads the entire means. Path operating is the way in which I am going.
I like operating extra now than once I began as a result of being just a little older, I can recognize issues just like the views and the mountains extra, and I can go additional and see extra cool landscapes, animals, and vegetation. I’ve additionally gotten so much higher at operating since I used to be 4, partly as a result of I’m nonetheless operating and my coaching miles are including up, and partly as a result of getting older makes me extra bodily succesful.
Sky Couvreux operating a path race in Moab, Utah.
I like operating as a sport and a option to get locations, however I additionally just like the folks. I look as much as individuals who have had their very own visions of pure surprise, and managed to appreciate them, I feel that’s cool. The listing of my heroes contains males like Kilian Jornet, Anton Krupicka, John Muir, John Wesley Powell, Edward Abbey, Tommy Caldwell, Alex Honnold, and Alex Johnson. Folks like these people encourage me to have enjoyable and do superior stuff exterior.
Once I develop up, I positively need operating to be part of my life. I need to run ultramarathons all around the world. I don’t know the place I see myself as an grownup, however will probably be someplace near trails, most likely on this galaxy. I need to practice so I can end my races sturdy. I need to change into an superior ultrarunner and have a tremendous and funtastic time on the paths! I feel what can be the best can be to be an superior ultrarunning grandpa. Till I’m previous for that although, I need to run a bunch of races, together with the Western States 100 and Hardrock 100, and the UTMB, amongst others.
I don’t know if operating is for everybody, however I want all youngsters had one thing they do exterior and are enthusiastic about. I feel anybody who performs exterior understands you will need to shield our planet so we are able to hold having fun with it. I feel if extra folks have been operating and enjoying exterior, we might have fewer unhappy folks on the earth.
[Editor’s note: If you’d like to know more, you can get in touch with Sky’s mom, Chloe, via email on “chloe_sfo at hotmail dot com”.]
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A really younger Sky Couvreux operating in France.
