Use this topic for posts that will collect community stars for the Long Loomis course. You can also ask questions or make comments about this course.
Here’s how it works.
Click the “Post Using This Template” button below to create a new post with a Story heading and boilerplate text.
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.
Your post must be on the same calendar day as your run as entered in the leaderboard.
Story
To pick up a community star, replace this text with a write-up of what your run was like, a photo you took on the run, a link to your Strava track, or something similar. Don’t delete the Story heading above.
WHAT!?!
As long as I was at Hammond Hill, it seemed worthwhile to complete the last of the three Challenge courses there. I had never exactly run the specific Long Loomis course before. I looked at RunGo and discovered a large percent of it was also part of the Thom B course, but with one strange difference… the default Long Loomis runs clockwise!! Over many years and quite a lot of miles, I don’t recall ever running in the clockwise direction at Hammond Hill for loops of anything!!
I made it through without confusion, finished just ahead of the rain, and noticed several groups of painted trilliums that I had not seen earlier while running the Thom B course: