Use this topic for posts that will collect community stars for the Town & Gown Up & Down course. You can also ask questions or make comments about this course.
Here’s how it works.
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Replace the boilerplate text with your report for one or both sections. The header is key for distinguishing between posts and replies—don’t change it.
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What a nice route! Like a trip down memory lane. I hadn’t gone up the cascadilla road trail in 5 years according to my Strava, PR’d it today even if it was a fair amount of fast walking. When I used to work on campus I would walk the trail near the engineering quad on lunch breaks — so nice to be back there again.
Lovely quiet route at 6:15am! We’re so lucky to have such great places to run.
A day in the mid-60s was perfect for this longish paved course. I parked down along Lynn St. and found both the sign and Joe! We briefly chatted as I found WebScorer on my phone. I assured him there would be plenty of hiking on my way. Off I went. Up up up and then up up some more. I chuckled as I approached Williams St. with RunGo telling me to run UP that street with a “You’re welcome.” To be honest, I didn’t run it. Hah! Eventually I made it to the flats of College Town and the Cascadilla trail. As I approached the wooden bridge at the end of the trail to cross over, I thought, “Oooh, pretty!” So I took out my phone to snap a photo. Not sure what happened there but my RunGo app decided to close so there I was fumbling with my phone in consternation. I rebooted RunGo, re-downloaded the directions, and took off again while vowing to NOT take another photo along the way, no matter how lovely the landscape. It was early evening, so around Cornell’s Engineering School, I ran into a herd of students departing campus for College Town. Upon wending my way around Uris Library, I smiled to see so many students sitting on the verdant Libe Slope relaxing in the sun. The rest of the course was filled with waterfalls, red buds, apple blossoms, and, eventually, down down down down and back over to Lynn St. Three courses done. Seven left to go.
Last night I wasn’t sure I’d be up early to get a run in before going to work early for a meeting. Luckily for me, my kid started pounding on my bedroom door and 5 a.m. yelling about a nightmare. After calming him down enough so he’d go back to sleep, I had enough time for coffee followed by an über soggy T&G U&D.
The coffee must have been extra strong. I made good time up the Cascadillla Winder Strava segment and was on pace for my fastest T&G U&D thus far.
Oops, I forgot it’s Slope Day. No drunken undergrads swarming the slopes in the rain at 6 a.m., but I had to figure out how to detour around the festival grounds to avoid the section behind Uris that was fenced off. I made my way around the quad before realizing it wasn’t completely fenced, so I doubled back to make sure to cover the ground and avoid DNF-ing the Challenge course run.
The lost time was enough to give up on attempting a fast run and instead just splash my way back down to Fall Creek. The Remington Downhill Mile was as fun as always.
To be honest, I didn’t run it. Hah! Eventually I made it to the flats of College Town and the Cascadilla trail. As I approached the wooden bridge at the end of the trail to cross over, I thought, “Oooh, pretty!” So I took out my phone to snap a photo. Not sure what happened there but my RunGo app decided to close so there I was fumbling with my phone in consternation. I rebooted RunGo, re-downloaded the directions, and took off again while vowing to NOT take another photo along the way, no matter how lovely the landscape. It was early evening, so around Cornell’s Engineering School, I ran into a herd of students departing campus for College Town. Upon wending my way around Uris Library, I smiled to see so many students sitting on the verdant Libe Slope relaxing in the sun. The rest of the course was filled with waterfalls, red buds, apple blossoms, and, eventually, down down down down and back over to Lynn St. Three courses done. Seven left to go.