Run Rabbit Run Star Posts (2026)

[adamengst]

Use this topic for posts that will collect community stars for the Run Rabbit Run 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.

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[dennis-s (Dennis Stadelman)]

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Lucky Rabbit Run
I ran this in the dark a couple of years ago during the Ultra Challenge. Today I saw all that I missed that night! I enjoyed this scenic country road, village run. Nice little section of cascades alongside Kraft Road, nice little gravel shoulder to run on next to most of the country road portions, and the return along Taughannock Creek was very enjoyable for the general down hill and the sights and sounds of Taughannock Creek:

I dawdled too much finishing the first part of the figure eight and on the road into Trumansburg. I arrived at the aid station there 3 minutes after the 7 PM closing time. A worker was tying a rope across the entrance to the aid station.
Me: Are you really closed?
Her: What do you need?
Me: A scoop or two of something
Her: We can do that.
Me: I ran 12 miles to get here (I’m counting Taughannock Rim & Trails, too)
Her: Then you deserve it!
Me: I agree. Thank you!!!
Cheers to the ice cream angels working at The Ice Cream Bar!

In keeping with the ‘R’ theme, I went with Raspberry.

While I was waiting, an older couple who had overheard the exchange asked me if I planned my running just to get ice cream. I wanted to say, 'Well, duh!“, but instead just said 'Whenever possible.”

Ate my ice cream and then continued. Made the turn onto Rabbit Run and in seconds saw a rabbit run across the road! I felt like I should go buy a lottery ticket right away!

Saw this tough looking rabbit just up the road from there:

Later on, not too far from finishing up, saw this more peaceful looking sculpture:

[tonya-engst]

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The group run today was at Taughannock Falls, with a post-run gathering at Scott and Amy’s. That’s a sensational idea, but I wanted to run long today. Adam volunteered to drop me off at the point on the Run Rabbit Run course that is closest to Scott and Amy’s – a quarter mile – and then he kindly cased out the water situation at the new parking lot, sending me a text message confirming that there is a good water fountain there, and not dropping a water bottle. He then went to the group run.

My run report has two parts.

First, the run itself was all that it should have been – and more. After a few sunny, slightly downhill miles, I turned onto the Black Diamond trail. The trail was lovely and greenly shaded. Refreshing, like lemonade.

After a few miles of slight downhill on the trail, I turned right onto a country road and got to work on the ascent – not a crazy steep climb – but about two miles of mostly gentle uphill and flat. One vehicle came by the entire time. I put myself just left of center on the yellow-line spine of the road, with the pavement sloping down on either side, while past the road, the fields lay flat under the sun, with the trees far away. I felt that I was in a summer snow globe, and spent a while imagining that I was looking down on myself running in the middle of all the space. Arms, legs, moving, horizon, floating. But then my watch announced four miles in, whatever that means, see below, a pickup came along, making me meander to the shoulder, and I was no longer in a summer snow globe, but still running, working. I kept going, pushing, resting, enjoying the view, until I “covered the ground” back to my drop off point. I then ran the quarter mile to Scott and Amy’s, hung out with running friends, and felt that my morning was a great success.

Second, two things I learned:

• If you have Apple’s Workout app going on your watch and then turn on RunGo on your iPhone three miles into your run (I wanted it to pick up at the official start of the course), Workout will end your run! I didn’t realize this right away. Luckily, I have RunGo hooked up to Strava, so I didn’t lose my run, though it’s in multiple segments.

• The course is a figure 8, and previously there was a parking lot at the center, so you could use your car as an aid station. The parking lot is now a meadow. A new parking lot is nearby, but not adjacent. I had hoped to see the new parking lot when I completed the first loop of the figure 8, but the entrance is around the corner, and I overlooked it. Adam may update the course to move the start to the new parking lot – this might change the distance a tiny bit, but it would be effectively the same course. The new parking lot has a proper bathroom, quite nice by local standards, and it was actually clean. If you are on the current course, if you just got on the Black Diamond trail and are running south, look for the bathroom building about a quarter mile down on the right – a right turn on a very short connector trail will take you up to it. More practically, if you park in the new lot, you can take the short connector trail down to the Black Diamond trail to intersect with the route.