Like most suburban runners I easily get restless with street-side routes and this has led me to discover the pleasures that lurk a few kilometres outside our development, along a creek that feeds into Lake Ontario. A provincial park has staked out large tracts of land along the ravine and I have just chronicled [url=http://snail-male.blogspot.com/2010/11/next-door-to-heaven.html]a typical 9 mile run[/url] through this area, from my home.
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I ran with a small Canon point & shoot, hardly stopping for many of the pics to see if the motion blur would impart a better sense of "being there"; you can be the judges of whether or not it was successful...
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Does anyone else have some pics of where they run? It may be a good way to vicariously experience a change of pace!
that was pretty cool, thanks
that was pretty cool, thanks for posting this.
+1 I really enjoyed it. Now
+1
I really enjoyed it. Now I want to run it.
Snail_mail, where exactly
Snail_mail, where exactly are you running?! We are buried under 1.5m of snow right now. I don't think I could even find the trail I ran on last week.
VERY cool! thanks for
VERY cool! thanks for sharing that. It looks like a lovely place to run :)
i liked that a nice addition
i liked that
a nice addition to the usual typology of a run report
That's beautiful. No wonder
That's beautiful. No wonder you can run so many miles in a week. I'd never go indoors if it were that pretty at every mile. Lucky dog.
snail_male wrote: Does
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Does anyone else have some pics of where they run? It may be a good way to vicariously experience a change of pace![/quote]
Well done. Maybe I'll give it a try this week. Providing the temps are cool enough to carry a camera without it being soaked in sweat.
Beautiful run route!:O)
Beautiful run route!:O)
Beautiful run route!:O)
Beautiful run route!:O)
Beautiful run route!:O)
Beautiful run route!:O)
Thanks, everyone, for your
Thanks, everyone, for your kind words.
Hamlet_cat - I'm jealous of your snow, as I scrounge around the basement for my xc skis, wondering when I'll get my first glides and edge-catchings in... just a skiff of the white stuff here. Remember, those photos are from ~6 weeks ago when we were still in the throes of beautiful autumn weather; I'm slow at getting the postings up! Right now most of the trees are bare, the leaves on the ground are just a gooey muck, and the grizzlys have all flown south. We're essentially located just a jog north of the westernmost point of Lake Ontario, NNE of Hamilton.
TryScott - By all means please get some shots if you can, I'd like to see where a guy of your endurance gets to run!
On the south end of Georgian
On the south end of Georgian Bay. We are probably over a meter now. I ran on the trail last Monday. Now, there is no way I could even get to the trail. It isn't even possible to run on the roads anymore. Oh, well, the treadmill at the gym opens up some new possibilities. (see attachment)
Gorgeous pics! My latest run
Gorgeous pics!
My latest run was immortalized in photos on my most recent "Sunday Snap" post (I do a photo post on Sundays on my blog):
Sunday Snap: How I Was Almost Killed By Marauding Cattle on a Trail Run
That's a great tale, Robin.
That's a great tale, Robin. Congrats on shredding the 27 minute mile in that bog! The things we get ourselves into some times, huh?!
And the B+W photo you finished with is incredible. It's nice to see you appreciating the chance to run by a view like that. Wow.