Precisely. As discussed here, the philosophy is “cover the ground.” As long as you run all three segments, the order in which you do them doesn’t matter.
Perhaps we’ll discover that one particular approach turns out to be fastest, but it’s not clear to me what that would be on the South Hill Rec Way. With the Cornell Botanic Gardens, I’m betting that it’s faster to go counter-clockwise such that you run down the steep hill rather than up. But maybe not!