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Follow Your Own Path

Follow Your Own Path

Apr 28, 2013

Postcard spotted in a Champéry shop:

What's your path?
What’s your path?

Il n’y a qu’un seul bon chemin, et c’est le tien!

Translation: There’s only good path, and it’s yours.

It’s a syrupy cliché, for sure, and any other time, I would have dismissed it out of hand. But, like a lot of cliches, there’s truth underneath the worn surface. Finding myself happily wandering around the Swiss Alps, mixing my job at home with discussions about trail running with a wide range of enthusiastic Swiss mountain runners, it definitely resonated.

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Doug Mayer
Doug Mayer is the founder of Run the Alps and lives in Chamonix, France with his labradoodle, Izzy. He is the author of The Race that Changed Running: The Inside Story of UTMB and writes for Outside Online and Ultrasignup News. His upcoming book is a graphic novel about Italy’s 330km long Tor des Géants trail race.