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The Run-Stroll Method
Maybe you’ve heard of the run-walk method? I used the run-stroll method for this course on Thursday. I started at the village hall in Freeville. Highlight of the run was passing Dryden Creamery and seeing a very chipper Anne Leonard in the parking lot and stopping for a quick chat! Next began the Jim Schug portion of the trail. This is always a difficult section to run for me. Once I get to this first big pond, I just want to slowly stroll for the next couple of miles, looking for birds, turtles, or whatever.
Several patches of marsh marigolds are in bloom:
and I found numerous turtles sunning themselves on logs in the pond just before Lake Road:
Couldn’t pass the trail side aid station in Dryden on the return without stopping:
If you aren’t running for ice cream, why are you running?
