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I completely forgot about the steep hill on this course, and thankfully it was relatively dry up there! Because if it wasn’t that would have been scary for me on the narrow track back down
doing something fun on an otherwise lazy Sunday afternoon….appreciated the dry trails and relative scarcity of bugs …again was surprised by how sweaty i got as it didn’t feel that hot and humid…but nice to be reminded that I don’t have to leave home to have some fun on the trails … nice to see others, be they dog walkers, bike riders, other runners or even tai chi (or maybe tae kwando) practicioners out there as well. Also had a fair number of squirrels and chipmunks chattering at me, and occasionally darting across my path (though I go so slow it hardly counts as a daring dash by the critter)…didn’t take any pictures as there wasn’t anything blooming, and really nothing I hadn’t seen many times before.
Lovely Trail Sections
The rain had stopped but I did not change out of my wet clothes and shoes for this run. I did dry off my hands and phone, and put the phone in a new Ziploc bag. I had forgotten how much I really enjoy both wooded trail sections of this course.
Post-rain, the rail section had numerous dog walkers, cyclists, and hikers. The long stretch of the second trail section through the field just before re-entering the rail trail is quite overgrown with weeds and prickers at the moment. I got drenched again running through it.
But I’d forgotten what a nice course this is otherwise - @mplank is right, it’s a very good intro to trail running and especially running solo. The rail trail is always close by and it doesn’t feel extremely isolated or anything. Just pretty trails
I also saw this little cheeky munchkin. I think it’s a grey fox? My first! It was just merrily pootling about doing its number one’s and two’s near the playground area at the start
Agreed with Melanie: the last 100m of the second trail loop is still very overgrown today. You might also encounter some thorny plants during the bushwhacking. Some muddy, slippery places as it rained last night, but overall not too bad.
I think I saw the fox-ish animal on the trail, too! A bit far away to tell if it’s really a fox or not.
Sorry for no photos, just want to share some updates about the trail condition
I completely forgot about the steep hill on this course, and thankfully it was relatively dry up there! Because if it wasn’t 
that would have been scary for me 
