I asked in a previous post, (or maybe I just thought it to myself), whether running itself was the same as meditation.  I suppose it depends a lot on how you do it. It may not necessarily be meditation, but if you think about it, running should always be done mindfully.  In fact, distracted running could be seriously dangerous in a plethora of ways from the mild and hilarious to the breathtakingly sobering.  For example, a misstep at dusk over a crack in the sidewalk could lay you out on your face.  I’ll never forget the first time this happened to me.  I was a freshman in college, and I had just…