Traipsing through the Terrain

Written by eklastic

Yes, we think we are a running club (of sorts). But we get older, or injured, or just lazy. And we become walkers. We are not running through the country side anymore, we are traipsing. Sometimes we even traipse through the towns and cities.

Of course, we don’t really traipse. We follow a trail. Or so we hope.

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Traipse

15 thoughts on “Traipsing through the Terrain”

    1. 😀 That was definitely a hill. I laid trail on my own (i.e. a day earlier I walked there and marked the trail with chalk or flour) and half way up that hill I collapsed (due to some grit in the bile duct) and there was no cell phone coverage. I lay there for about 15 minute (no people anywhere with all these houses!) and then I crawled up until I had connection and could phone my husband. I was fine the next day (the photos are proof thereof). But damn – that was a hill!!

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    1. It’s called a dead hare., i.e. you do the trail on the day before, mark it, and do it again the next day lurking at the back of the pack and having fun when they take the wrong turns and have to track back. It beats (for me) doing a live hare, that’s when you get a 10 minute head start and then the others chase you. With planning you can evade the pack for awhile, even a weak runner like myself, but I will eventually be caught.

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      1. These are games I played in Scouts. It was called a Chalk Chase and it was a live chase. We met at night so kids running up and down the streets was fun. One chase ended in the cemetery which was fun 🙂

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      4. We used to have that problem in Saudi (i.e. camels) but here in our part of Europe the only animals that devour the flour are snails! – And although dogs and cats leave it alone the owners of said pets often call the police suspecting us to put poison down. Come the policemen and think we put cocaine down (yeah, quite, because we can afford to throw a kilo or two flour in the woods, d’oh!). A few years back some hashers were detained in Washington D.C. because the police thought they were throwing Anthrax powder around.

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      5. Officialdom is an ass. Next you’ll have to do letterbox drops of fliers telling people you will be “running” around their neighbourhood and have to wear Hi-vis shit.
        I laughed at the cocaine, those police have their heads up their arses or have too much money to think you would throw coke on the ground 😂😂

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      6. After two run ins with the police in a particular town we’ve resolved to go to the police staton and announce what we are planning to do. Only to be met with “So? Why are you telling us?!”

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