Author Archives: nicholaskemper

City Loop Trail Run Time: 65:22 + 2-minute kick Brandon is a pleasant small city. The night before I stayed in downtown Winnipeg, which was not pleasant. I was on the 10th floor of the Holiday Inn Express, which felt relatively safe, compared to the lobby, but when I got in the elevator to goContinue reading “Brandon, MB”

Sterling Heights High School Run Time: 65:11 + 2-minute kick I wasn’t sure I was going to get a run in. Thunderstorms were on the horizon, so to speak. I was glad I did. It was the only run of the week. Canada sent all of their wildfire smoke across the border in retaliation forContinue reading “Sterling Heights, MI”

Diagonal Trail Run Time: 64:57 + 2-minute kick Creative name for this trail. The elevation gain data seems a little exaggerated. Partly that is the width of the graphic, but also, I ran this trail from one end to the other and it felt pretty flat. The approaches from the street were the most pronouncedContinue reading “Roseville, MN”

City Streets and Sidewalks Run Time: 64:55 + 2-minute kick A one-day diversion north of the border. Found this resort town in the Okanagan Valley, amidst a large collection of rather northern vineyards. Very picturesque, with mountains to the east and west, which created a south-wind tunnel in the afternoon for my run, but aContinue reading “Osoyoos, BC”

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”