Where I Run (The River Run)
Susan had a great idea on her blog. She thought it would be great to exchange pictures of where we run.
I have a run course that follows a floodplane near the house. I knew that Tom would run today, so I grabbed the camera and went with him. He is the guy in some of the pictures.
How does the old saying go? The best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray, especially if you wanted pictures of the river run today (or something like that).
This is our river course. Of course, it rained last night. Pretty heavily in our area. Near the plaza is a nice, little pond with fountains (turned off and drained today). The path is cement but the underpasses were covered in muddy silt from last night's rain. The sky was also overcast and smoggy. Regardless, this is "The River Run" in pictures!
It is a half mile from my house through residential neighborhoods. As you descend from street level to the recreation path, we found this muddy silt covering the ground (did wonders for the shoes).
As you approach the commercial city center area, the ducks greet you every day. Usually they have a small pond to swim in.
Mostly it is a greenbelt as the next pictures show...
The end of the recreation path feeds into Englewood High School. There is a set of stairs there that I climb and descend everytime I pass them.
Followed by a more gentle slope up to street level. Of course, you need to turn around, back track a bit, then keep going to the next street. Then its back to the starting point.
This course is 2 miles if you run just the recreation path. If you include all the feed paths it will be around 4 miles. With the run from the house and back it is just about a 5K run. Perfect for a short run!
Its a fun path to run and very close to the house.
So now! Where do you run?
I have a run course that follows a floodplane near the house. I knew that Tom would run today, so I grabbed the camera and went with him. He is the guy in some of the pictures.
How does the old saying go? The best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray, especially if you wanted pictures of the river run today (or something like that).
This is our river course. Of course, it rained last night. Pretty heavily in our area. Near the plaza is a nice, little pond with fountains (turned off and drained today). The path is cement but the underpasses were covered in muddy silt from last night's rain. The sky was also overcast and smoggy. Regardless, this is "The River Run" in pictures!
It is a half mile from my house through residential neighborhoods. As you descend from street level to the recreation path, we found this muddy silt covering the ground (did wonders for the shoes).
As you approach the commercial city center area, the ducks greet you every day. Usually they have a small pond to swim in.Mostly it is a greenbelt as the next pictures show...
The end of the recreation path feeds into Englewood High School. There is a set of stairs there that I climb and descend everytime I pass them.
Followed by a more gentle slope up to street level. Of course, you need to turn around, back track a bit, then keep going to the next street. Then its back to the starting point.
This course is 2 miles if you run just the recreation path. If you include all the feed paths it will be around 4 miles. With the run from the house and back it is just about a 5K run. Perfect for a short run!
Its a fun path to run and very close to the house.
So now! Where do you run?
posted by CewTwo at 3:29 PM
8 Comments:
Lovely! Sign me up! Except for those stairs...
I can't wait to see everyone else's photos.
Yeah those stairs and the incline - brrrrr! But it looks like a lovely circuit - plenty of variety to keep you interested. Thanks for the support on runningmates - it's appreciated!
Oh what a great idea! I'm totally going to do that next time. That looks like a really cool run!
By the way, thanks for the boiling the bottle recommendation. It never occurred to me to even sterilize my bottles! Appreciate it!
The grass is so green! Thanks for sharing with us.
A lot of nice variety!
I really need to bring my camera when I'm out and about.
Awesome idea! I gotta bring out the camera soon.
It's so gorgeous there!! I can see where you would be inspired by the scenery..
Nice photos and nice run. I like the variety, even the stairs :-)
Last time I was in Colorado I stayed in Louisville, where I used to live before I moved back east, and since I was still on east coast time, I got up at 5 am and ran the cement rec trails out there to the west of the old downtown. I happened to know where I was going (but I wasn't a runner when I left in 1987) and running through my old haunts as the sun came up, where my oldest son was born and past the houses where I lived with my ex when we were still childless, was magical. The McStain subdivision, now grown up. Your route looks very nice too. It's hard to capture a route on camera but you did a pretty good job.
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