Running at the Foot of Merapi Mountain

Indeed it will be wonderful if you could run along Potomac River , behind the famous Watergate Washington. A soft sand surface below your foot and a row of Cherrie blossom trees accompany your hart pulsing rhythm. Or running along the Seine River at Paris watching by old historic buildings. Or morning runs at green wet grass of the Hyde Park London. All of such beautiful place where all runner want to taste.

But all of those are only dreaming, in reality I life in a small village, running is even a strange luxurious way of life. People have no time for run, they always working all the routine days. Paddy fields are waiting for maintaining. There always a lot of jobs to do, at the Farm. Cultivate the land, seeding seeds, tanam, planting or harvesting.

No place for running. Somebody may run along the street around the village, or across the farm or paddy field, but it’s always become spectacle that attracts attention.

Until finally I found a soccer field belong to the local municipal. It’s formally to be use for soccer or football but in fact it’s a multi function field. People often drying seeds or crops. It’s also uses by people who learning and practicing driving, motor-cycles, cars or even tractors. The grass were un-cut so that people can release their cows or sheep to get free leaves.

At the beginning I have to clean the field my self. I also bought concrete trash container to collect lot of plastic garbage and burn it out. But it’s rewarding, the view is so beautiful to enjoy. Every morning I run, breath of fresh air, tread the morning dew while from distance Merapi Mountain, the world’s most active volcano jealously see to me.