How to Get Over Snow Banks While Running
You’ll Get Through It
There is a children’s book called “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” that repeats the refrain, “We can’t go over it, we can’t go under it, we’ll have to go through it…”
The life lesson is not subtle when typed out, without the beautiful illustration, and the rest of the story. If you read the whole book, you’ll certainly catch on, but the message is more sly. And although I read it to my children, for them to absorb, the message was certainly not lost on me. So, today, when considering the many roadblocks to a continuous jaunting experience, as I navigated around the residue of the 16 inches of snow we received days ago, I found myself repeating the line.
Because no one shovels exactly the same, and some people don’t shovel at all, conditions are very unpredictable. More than once, I’d get down a sidewalk and have to track back. It looked shoveled but then I’d discover it just stopped, and what I thought was the end of a curved path was where they stacked all the snow, disregarding that it made the next house’s sidewalk inaccessible.
Understanding that not all people can physically shovel for hours on end, or that they may have done just that, only to have a second swipe of plow truck destroy their snow carving, I muttered my bear hunt book mantra. I kept going over…
