What do you do when you can't run?

Injury, illness, and wildfire smoke will come to you, and they're out of your control. So what do you do next?

A note on Los Angeles and its wildfires

It’s been a week since I evacuated from Los Angeles. The Eaton Fire is on my side of town. I run in Altadena very regularly. A few (a few!) people who I have met through running lost their homes in the inferno that saw fire flying sideways at 70 mph. A whole bunch of places I regularly frequent either before or after runs have been razed to the ground. It is a unique neighborhood, and so much character has been lost, as well as lifetimes of belongings.

I’m permanently thankful that the only thing of mine to be obliterated is my savings as I drove my family 100 miles out of harm’s way.

I’ve watched in amazement from afar as local area run clubs, Eagle Rock, Silver Lake, and Koreatown have banded together through their formidable online communities to provide DIY, boots-on-the-ground, mutual aid support to rescue organizations, firefighting person…