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I love this time of year because campus is rather quite and I don’t have to dodge so much traffic and pedestrians and just take in the views.
I absolutely adore all the stone work here.
The course also reminded me of three rules for doing Challenge courses on a warm sunny day:
Rule 1: If there is an ice cream stand on the course, stop and enjoy some.
Rule 2: Plan the day’s running routes so that Rule 1 will be exercised.
Rule 3: Do not start running until Rule 2 is satisfied.
That’s a scoop of Beebe Black Raspberry on two scoops of Bavarian Raspberry Fudge! Cornell Dairy Bar ice cream is delicious and in my Top 3 - but I might have to deduct points because the server thought that was a lot of ice cream to take outside without a dish. About half a mile later it was gone.
not sure if it was slow because of Saturday’s efforts for FL50s or because it was an unusual run time (noon-ish) or because it was much warmer and more humid than expected - fortunately decided to carry a bottle of water because I was sweating profusely. Also fortunate that it was shadier than I anticipated, because the sunny stretches were hot. Enjoyed running past first apartment I lived at 30 years ago when i first moved here - yes, 30 years ago…June 1996. Wow. I ran a lot faster back then…
Note to self: next time start/end course at Dairy Bar…
Couple of course notes relative to RunGo, both on grassy stretch after turning off from sidewalk along Pleasant Grove, and both relative to changes made for disc golf course:
immediately after turning onto dirt road, there Is now a fork that runners need to bear right at
once past that fork, runners should continue south ignoring the crossing paths (the disc golf course has interrupted the once continuous stretch of woods here, making it tough to “hug the edge of the field”
at the south end of the field, the Palmer Woods trail entrance is obscured by a disc golf tee box
I’ll have to head out there to check, but I think the instructions are correct. The map shows taking the right fork and then hugging the left side of the woods. There has long been a break between them (that’s a canonical High Noon speed workout course).
Melissa Wallace and I ran this course in reverse this morning because we wanted to avoid the long slog up Tower Rd. We felt that a few shorter but steeper hills was preferable, but after doing it that way I’m not so convinced… It felt hard this morning! Maybe I’ll have to try it the ‘normal’ way too…
On the note of ice cream… I have no idea (but huge respect) how one eats a load of ice cream and THEN goes for a run. I think it would end badly for me!! Kudos to @dennis-s !!
