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Trail Running: Benefits, Tips, and Safety!

I decided on my recent trail run through Phoneline Trail in Sabino Canyon, that if I could trail run every day - I would. But it takes at least 20 minutes to get to a trail from my house. And let's face it - if I did this every day I'd be a pile of ace wraps and ibuprofen. Friday morning my girlfriend and I did a 9.3 mile trail run through Sabino Canyon. It's this beautiful canyon north of the Foothills of Tucson - that is supposed to have a stream that cuts through it. Most years it has running water from about December-May. This year, unfortunately, it's quite dry because Mount Lemmon didn't get snow. *insert rant about my serious concerns about our drought and how people of Tucson need to start making efforts to conserve water and we need to do rain water harvesting this monsoon season so we don't further dry out what's left of our water table* Let me step off my soap box and get back to trail running . 9.3 miles of trail running is a challeng