Use this topic for posts to collect community stars for the Lime Hollow course.
Here’s how it works.
Well after almost 7 months of recovering from some of life’s curveballs, I’m happy to say I’m back to running. It was a beautiful trail to start with. Thanks to @DamianClemons for slowing his pace to stay with me. We had a couple of hiccups in the beginning and my rungo app decided to stop talking to me.
Stopped to get a pic of the geese and I found this adorable painted rock. 
This is a late entry for my run on Monday but I have to say I LOVE this course. I have driven by Lime Hollow for years and never stopped to look at it. I am so glad it is part of the Challenge bc it got me to visit.
The trails are nice and wide, the scenery is varied, and the art trail is wonderful. There are a number of art sculptures of animals and mythical creatures including a sea monster. I especially loved the Run Go instruction at around 3/4 mile that told me to look across the creek and up the hill to see the dragon.
I suggest you take the time to run it twice, either twice in one day or come back on a different day. The first time go slow, learn the course, and enjoy the art work and then later you can aim for speed.
The dragon has a story. Jack’s Way was created as a memorial for Jack Jakubek. Jack was a SUNY Cortland graduate who interned at Lime Hollow and was a member of the swim team. Tragically Jack died during an ocean lifeguard test shortly after he graduated. His family set up a fund to create what will eventually grow into Jack’s forest at that site. The entire men’s and women’s swimming and diving team comes out every year to do trail work and plant more trees. The dragon was created in Jacks’s honor, the SUNY Cortland mascot is the red dragon. And if you look carefully you will see he is perched on a starting block ready to launch into an epic swim.
I needed to hike these trails to refine the RunGo directions, so @tonya-engst and I went out this morning to notch an effort and have a picnic. Just a few tweaks to the instructions, but they should be better than ever.
In honor of all our friends running Seneca 7 today, I wore a hat and hoodie from previous editions.
I marveled at RunGo’s directions today as I wound my way through the woods on the enjoyable single track and rail trail of Lyme Hollow. How lovely to smell the woods and see the sites without messing around with a map!
Today’s plan was for me to run ahead of @adamengst while he walked and tweaked the RunGo directions. When I finished back at the car, I would grab a drink and a sweatshirt and then run backwards to meet him, stopping to walk when we met up.
Due to my actually starting after Adam, my stopping a few times to text my RunGo feedback or take a photo, and our comparative long-run and walking speeds, I met him only about a quarter mile back on the trail. We closed the outing with a short picnic—it was too chilly to linger and the sun had slipped away. It started to rain once we were on the road back home, but the outing was a success.
Agree completely. I ran it twice on Saturday. The second one was 23 minutes faster than the initial excursion.
Drizzly morning for 2 efforts here! Hiked the first loop, walk/ran the second loop. Ran into @mclark and his adorable dog Maggie at the s/f in between (and we each obtained community stars!). Had the poop scared out of me by a goose hiding on the other side of a bank near the end of Lehigh Trail before Gracie Rd. I was expecting to see more red efts, and finally spotted some near the area ironically called Salamander Springs. Sat on the bench at the bog, enjoying the view and ate some fruit snaccs, which only included my favorite flavors!
@heathercobb3 - Snacks look disturbingly like red eft.
Haha that didn’t occur to me! I swear they’re not! 
Heather, don’t confuse the two (note that the gummies don’t have legs and crunch less). Great to “run” into you this morning!!
A warm afternoon for 2 runs here. Enjoyed more fruit snaccs at the bog, but no red efts were consumed! Saw a kingfisher dive into the water while seated here, too.
After seeing the group off at Hammond Hill, I met up with my mom at the nature center for a nice leisurely hike.
I ran Lime Hollow twice today. First I took a leisurely jog to scope out the course, enjoy the sights, and take a picture with the salamander bassist.
I ran my second loop at tempo effort to record a faster time. For some reason RunGo was a bit delayed on this loop, so I had to backtrack after missing a couple of turns. I’ll have to come back later to do an uninterrupted fast run.
@Gretchen @medardia and I took advantage of the excellent weather to run the Lime Hollow challenge course. With only one slight detour (I missed a turn despite Adam’s very careful directions) and one extra hill climb just for fun (Adam’s side note “be grateful that I didn’t make you run up that hill!” made us laugh, so I ran up it anyway!)
Amazing wildflowers this time of year, and a great excuse to get out in the woods.
Thanks for putting this together, Rachel! And I can vouch for her having run up that extra hill. She should get additional stars for that! 
Good to run through the woods with both you ladies. 
Pretty photo! 
