Running Ruminations

A couple weeks ago, for a couple consecutive weeks, I linked to the missing runner story in the east bay that was all over the (running) news here.

Unfortunately, yesterday (Tuesday, 8/3) a volunteer searcher located what is believed to be Philip Kreycik’s body in the same park where he disappeared, under a tree or heavy bush cover, about 250 yards off path. Some stories I read on the subject said it was off or near a “game trail” (which I presume means something like the cow paths that I see in Sierra Vista Open Space Preserve/ARP sometimes? not a pedestrian path?). The family will be participating in a presser tomorrow morning (Thursday, 8/5), so maybe if they feel so inclined, they will avail more details to the public. I can’t imagine their experience right now though.

I don’t know the family, nor did I know the runner, but I’m gutted to read the story. It’s obviously not the result the family, and the hundreds of volunteers, and the thousands of well-wishers, had hoped for, yet I hope that the family can somehow begin to find closure. Maybe they will learn more from an autopsy in the coming days. It is heartbreaking for sure, and my heart aches for those who knew him and loved him.

It’s hard not to speculate and rationalize and hypothesize, so I’ve tried to refrain from doing so out of respect and deference.

May he rest in peace, and may his family find solace in their shared memories.