6 miles with the Trolly
Posted By Jon on September 5, 2004
There’s an old Trolly (sp?) route that has been converted into a bike path near my parent’s house. It still runs along the train tracks. They have the mileage marked in 1/4 miles. I ran it today for the first time. Its all farm country so no traffic or noise or anything. There’s one section that is pretty straight and goes for about 2.0 miles without a single bend. Its neat to see your goal at the far end, but it doesn’t do much for variety of scenery. I’ll try to get a picture of it if I can. Lots of folks out running and biking this AM.
I did ok without the strap, although the last 1/4 mile it started to feel tight so I stopped momentarily to stretch it. I was wishing I had worn the strap at the point because I didn’t want to get to a point where I was doing damage again. Its a little sore right now while I type this. I probably deserve it since it was a big bump in mileage as far as non-strap running goes.
Friday was a rest day and Saturday was supposed to be 40 minutes of crosstraining, but ended up being just a short 2 mile walk to a geocache.
Thanks for all the comments on the 100 Things. It took about 3 days to write. I just added more as I thought of things. And I dated “Betty”, “Don’s” sister before he died in his…uh…accident.
Ok, that’s it for the moment. I think I am still on track for Detroit, but given the slow progress of my ITB, I don’t know if it will keep with the 10% weekly increase in mileage. We’ll see.
At least you’re out there again.
Glad to hear you got to run in a new place. I LOVE that!
Sounds like fun. Perhaps that 2 mile straightaway would be a good place for fartleks.
Well, good luck with it, however it goes. I found that doing 20-30 minutes of stretching … actually about 30 of stretch-something, stretch-ITB, stretch-something-else, stretch-ITB … did the trick for me. Then again, it took six months for it to more or less go away, and I’m still pretty paranoid about it.
Clarification – that’s pre-run stretching.
Running in a new spot totally rocks doesn’t it?! Hope the ITB is as good as new soon.
The bike path sounds perfect for those dissociative runs where you can forget about how and where you’re running…and just solve all the world problems. And your 100 Things list is great;it really got me thinking.
So weird. I was JUST this morning walking a 2.0 mile bike path in my town. I had to do it because my car broke down, and this was the shortest route to the car rental place, but hey. It was still a sweet 2 miles in the woods where the train used to go. Boy, twilight zone stuff.