Did you watch the Boston Marathon a few weeks back? Beautiful and yet kind of crowded. Perhaps you yearn for a quieter Autumnal dash. One with no people, or just the few you choose to run with.

And maybe you live an unstructured life, and your runs are mirror images. You can’t be penned in by a certain course, to be run at a certain time, on a certain day. What if you like to run in the rain like Frank Shorter did, or hate the rain like so many runners do.

Maybe you like to run at dawn, or maybe dawn equals creaky knees and a sore back, but by late afternoon, when the sun is looking for its own finish line, you are ready to begin. Where? Anywhere.

Okay, enough with the teasing. What run is this that is so wide open and free? The Gay Head 10K, doing its thing virtually this year so you can run wherever you are. The only catch is that it must be done in October and time is running out.

The race is a fund raiser too — an annual infusion of cash to keep the Gay Head light on. And for those on-Island looking to recreate the real thing, the traditional course starts at the Gay Head cliffs, heads down State Road past the Aquinnah town hall, the library and Wampanoag tribal lands, goes back up Moshup Trail along the beach and finishes back to the lighthouse. Bring your own water.

But if 10K feels like too much, run 5K or one-mile. It is up to you after all.

For more information and to register visit gayhead10k.com.