Use this topic for posts that will collect community stars for the Lakefront Loops 5K course. You can also ask questions or make comments about this course.
Here’s how it works.
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Replace the boilerplate text with your report for one or both sections. The Story header is key for distinguishing between posts and replies—don’t change it.
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My lunch break today was an easy 10k on the Inlet Shore course. I finished up the run with my watch reading 6.03 miles. I know it’s not always 100% accurate, but I swear it read 6.20 for this course last week. Oh, that’s right. I forgot about that 0.15-mile side loop at the Allan Treman marina and therefore only covered 97.58% of the ground. Well at least the Inlet Shore 10k overlaps entirely with the Lakefront Loop 5k. I pulled my 5k split from Strava, so at least it counts for something on the leaderboard lol.
The good news is I can confirm there are no closures or reroutes anywhere on the Inlet Shore 10k course. It’s fully open and looks like all construction and resurfacing work is done for now, as of 4/30/26.
The temptation was just too great so I decided to make my long run even longer this morning by adding the Lakefront Loops 5K to the other three courses I’d already completed this morning (two BDs and Taughannock Rim and Gorge. This brought my total milage for the morning up to 26 miles instead of the 24 I’d planned. Well worth it!
My family and I went to Cortland this morning for the Corn Ducky 5K. I raced with Theo in his stroller. Despite a couple of stops to check the course map and pick up a hat that I dropped, I finished just under 20 minutes and won the race. That’s course 1 of 10 for my unofficial personal stroller challenge.
Having been timing the CHES (Cayuga Heights Elementary School) 5K for (more than) several years now - but had never run the course. While this was supposed to be a long run day, I was still recovering from the Taughannock Falls Rim Trail, so a short hard run was an intriguing alternative. Was late arriving to the start line (even though I was 90+ minutes ahead of everyone else!) so had minimal warm up before taking off. Course is sufficiently hilly, particularly in the first mile, which seems to be all up. But then the 3rd mile is all down hill…so much so that the last .1 is all up! All in all, almost got under 10:00/mile pace so was happy with result. Surprise of the morning - despite the air temp in the 30s, it felt much warmer, so much so that I layered down and was glad I did so. Fun part of the run - passing the same dogs and dog walkers I had seen earlier in the month doing the “Sights of the Heights”…dogs still barked at me, of course.. https://www.strava.com/activities/18359037515
