International Straight Run Day

I don't know what you did in college, but I did some things that most people would call stupid.  Every year on February the 15th, the cross country guys would run straight.  What do I mean?  I mean we would run straight, wherever straight took us - always off the path, always through a river, sometimes close by death itself. My wife was upset when I did this at flood stage river in cold mid-Feb weather while she was pregnant with our first child.  Today I ran straight with my four children.  Did we go through a river?  Not this time, but if they have my blood, which they do, it will only be a matter of time before we are swimming across rivers together on the path called straight.