This weekend I decided to drive to one of the woods I run in on campus. I usually run there from home then run back, but thought running the entire time in the woods would be that much better (instead of 3.5 miles on the road). I was not disappointed and may make a habit out of this approach.
I don't know why these woods have the nick name "big woods", to me they are the "old woods" since this is where I use to
mountain off-road bike 15 years ago before they were closed by the university. These woods have lots of fond biking memories, now I'm filing away fond running memories.
Saturday I made it to the woods for a run. I planned on running an hour and a half, but I just didn't want it to end. I never saw one other person out there. Just me and my tunes. It was so peaceful and I never once got nervous about mountain lions :-). Not sure why I start thinking I'm being watched when running alone through woods, but it didn't happen this time (maybe no one was watching me, but they really are at other times :-)).
Anyway here are some pics.
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| Pretty barren in February |
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| nice single track |
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| went over the handle bars coming down this |
10+ years ago I was biking by myself and coming down this I ended up looking at the sky without knowing exactly what happened. No phone, by myself, I was stunned. I really don't know how long I laid there. Could have been a second, could have been 10 minutes. Felt my collar bones and helmet, no trouble so I kept going. That was the last time I rode down that though :-).
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| interesting obstacles |
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| can't remember what I saw here |
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| You have to pay attention in some places, specially on a bike |
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| another drop off, it seems tighter in person |
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| sorry, no stupid crooked grin pictures of me today :-) |
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| more obstacles |
The woods change so much from season to season, I'm hoping to take a few pics each season and blog them. I've had this thought before, but then again, I wasn't a blogger before. We'll see.......
