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Pewaukee High School Run time: 57:44.5 + 1-lap kick Last trip of the year, first real winter trip. It got cold in Idaho last month, and there was snow, but it still felt like late fall. It is the early darkness that seems so stark this week. The photos do not do it justice, becauseContinue reading “Pewaukee, WI”

Decker Lake Park Run time – 57:31 + 2-minute kick This pocket of Salt Lake City might be the Mormon Slums. The hotel was right next to I-215, tucked into a barely accessible mini-neighborhood with two sketchy apartment complexes and a facility with a very high cyclone fence, the kind that inverts in a largeContinue reading “West Valley City, UT”

Sandcreek Middle School Run Time: 57:29.5 + 2-minute kick First snow run and first night run on the year. The lady at the Hertz counter in SLC wisely recommended an upgrade from a compact to an AWD mini-SUV. Woke up in the morning to 27-degree weather but did not see snow till I got upContinue reading “Idaho Falls, ID”

Kiwanis Park Run time 57:14.5 + 2-minute kick It was windy in Galesburg. I know – surprise, surprise. We used to live in the Eastern suburbs of Portland, near the entrance to the Columbia Gorge, and we would get the east wind a lot, but it was intermittent. These Northern Central states – they seemContinue reading “Galesburg, IL”

Bishop Garrigan High School Run time: 57:12.5 + 2-minute kick Back to the comfort of a school track. It was just across the road and through the cemetery from the hotel, so… hard to resist. A beautiful Iowa afternoon in a small town that I choose to pronounce “All-gone-a.” There is a serene beauty toContinue reading “Algona, IA”

Run time: 57:10.5 + 2-minute kick This was an ultimate rural run. I ran around the perimeter of a newly-mown corn field, mostly in the corn field itself. Turns out if you stay in the space between the rows (now rows of corn stalk stubble), you can run just fine. There is some harvest debris,Continue reading “New Hampton, IA”

Run Time: 57:08.5 + 2-minute kick Wintertime is coming. Started the run in the daylight, finished it in the dark. I was a little late to the hotel, but the weather was clear, and it seems a little easier to start a run now that I alternate walking with running, especially when the first 10Continue reading “Loves Park, IL”

Run Time: 57:04.5 + 2-minute kick On a blustery walk to dinner with my daughter, her husband, our granddaughter, and my wife, we passed a trail that led toward the river to the north of their house, and Kevin, my son-in-law, suggested that I could take that route on my run and get to LakeContinue reading “Rochester, NY, Part 2”

Run Time: 57:03 + 2-minute kick With no local knowledge, I ran first on neighborhood sidewalks. I left my daughter’s house on Smugglers Lane, headed east on Eaton, then south on St Paul, then east on Pinecrest, and then turned around when my time was halfway done. The homes were old and beautiful. Lawns wereContinue reading “Rochester, NY”

County Ditch 52 Loop Run time: 57:01.5 + 2-minute kick The first run of the Fall for which I felt compelled to don the stocking cap and gloves. Comforting. Yes, body temperature does seems to rise when you run, but I prefer to feel warm before I start the run. Putting on the hoodie andContinue reading “Redwood Falls, MN”