Last night, I went to Vermilion to map out my course to prepare for this weekend. (As all of us know, "The Hoodie" is all about preparation). The course is going to be two loops of an 8.5 mile course that will take me out through the countryside of morning sun drenched cornfields, bean fields, farms with cows, over Route 2 that runs from Cleveland to Toledo, and begins and ends on U.S. Route 6. This is the same route that could take me west to Oregon or east to my beloved Cape Cod.
I ran the first loop of the course this morning. Here's the course in pictures and the necessary medication for this portion of my training program.
Morning has broken:
As the run began, here was the view of a channel leading out to Lake Erie as I began:
The sky at one mile:
Three miles into the run, a small river:
Five miles into the run:
Feeling happy along the way:
From one of the bridges that crosses Route 2:
Sunrise over corn at six miles:
Corn looks great:
Take me home country road:
A stream with about a mile and a half left:
Lake Erie on the turn on U.S. Route 6 back to the start/finish one mile out:
As the Dr. Higdon's prescription for the weekend says, "Repeat as needed with unlimited refills."
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