1. Always give your body a few days to adapt to the high altitude and heat.
2. Always carry water.
3. Always let someone know where you are going.
4. Carry a map or other navigation aid and a phone.
5. If you are in an unfamiliar area, stick to out-and-back runs, don’t just trust your sense of direction and hope that you can somehow make a loop out of it.
6. Always wear tons of sunscreen.
7. If you fail to follow rule 6, don’t take your shirt off just to make sure you get an even burn rather than just your arms.
8. Always heed No Trespassing signs.
9. Under no circumstances attempt to use the logic that crossing four separate gates with Keep Out signs somehow all cancels out and makes you legal.
10. If you survive a run in which you break all these rules, and even get back to your starting point within 30 seconds of your goal total running time, don’t mention any of your transgressions to your wife.
11. Rule 10 includes cryptic blog postings.
12. Oops!

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