Option 3

The park near myself is beautiful to run. But can be basically a mud run much of the year. The good news is that after you have run it once you know where the slip and slides are. And that is one option in life – you can do something more than once to figure out the best way to do it. That’s Option 1.
Option 2 is to speak to someone who has “made that run” before and get their insight. The obvious issue that people have fault memories, different capacities and tolerances. For example, some people can run along four-inch landscaping timber and avoid the mud...others will fall in.
But the best option in life is to speak with Jesus – Someone Who knows everything about everything and everything about us (whether you can run along the landscaping ties or this will cause you to end up face-down in the mud). 
“And yet,” I thought as I ran. “How often we ignore Option 3.”