Author Archives: nicholaskemper

Mill Creek Trail Run Time: 64:54 A drizzly, windy day in Eastern Washington, but warm enough to run in shorts and a long sleeve t. A great week in the Western mountains, with a fair amount of sunshine and even some early spring greenery. Found a trail along old Mill Creek, actually just flat topsContinue reading “Walla Walla, WA”

Red Cedar State Trail Run Time: 64:46 + 2-minute kick Only one decent running day in a week-long work driving trip through Wisconsin. Weather not cooperating. One afternoon of snow flurries, but mostly it is wind that discourages leaving the warm hotel room. Wind is the dominant meteorological feature of my sales region. The opportunityContinue reading “Menomie, WI”

Owyhee Elementary School Run Time: 64:35 + 2-minute kick Another revisit to a favored locale. Same hotel, same school a few blocks away. The track is short, the elevation flat, the scenery not particularly spectacular, but it is a safe and known route, and elementary schools are nostalgic places. They remind you of a timeContinue reading “Boise, ID”

Decker Lake Loop Run Time: 64:34 + 2-minute kick I had to go to Utah to run. It had been a month without running, mostly due to frigid temperatures in our home state of Michigan, plus a week in the Bahamas with no decent running routes. This was a revisit – I found this loopContinue reading “Salt Lake City, UT”

La Framboise Island Loop Run Time: 64:25 + 2-minute kick It might have been the French who colonialized South Dakota. Given the relative remoteness of the region in whatever century they arrived, one might guess that France was not the center of culture, viniculture, and romance tourism that it is now. Elseways, why would itsContinue reading “Pierre, SD”

Whitehouse Nature Center Trail Run Time: 62:19 + 2-minute kick Another All Trails win. I finished my sales visits in Detroit, and I was spending the night in Coldwater, MI, a couple hours west, so I did a map search and came up with this splendid trail system on the grounds of Albion College. ItContinue reading “Albion, MI”

Yampa River Core Trail Run Time: 64:10 + 2-minute kick It took me a few minutes to find the trail. There is a lot of construction going on in this ski town. I thought I could cut across through a private road and a Trail Closed sign to the south end of the trail, thenContinue reading “Steamboat Springs, CO”

Hawthorne Elementary School + neighborhood streets Run Time: 64:09 + 2-minute kick This was a checkbox run. I was tired, it was hot, I was in the city, I didn’t feel like running, there wasn’t a good place to run, but I ran. I checked the box. I moved the calendar item to the nextContinue reading “Boise, ID”

Run 1 time: 64:06 + 2-minute kick Kim Williams Nature Area Run 2 time: 64:07 + 2-minute kick Mount Sentinel M-Trail A rare 2-night stay in one hotel room. A minor bonus: one more with no packing. My hotel was right on the river, which was a bigger bonus. Wasn’t sure where to go atContinue reading “Missoula, MT”

Dustin Freese Memorial Sidewalk + Neighborhood Streets Run Time: 64:05 + 2-minute kick The beginning of an extended 2-week trip through Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Utah, and Colorado. Plus I flew on Sunday so that I could stop in and see my sis-in-law and her youngest, who live in Fort Collins. She brewedContinue reading “Billings, MT”