Two runs on a treadmill this week. Time to get back out with the return of springlike weather. So it was off on a 8.5 mile run.
One of the things about living on a thin peninsula between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean is that you can run across it and back in that distance. So that's what I did. I left my house in Franktown right at the head of Meetinghouse Creek (a tidal arm of the Bay) and ran through Nasswadox to Brownsville, headquarters of the Nature Conservancy on the Eastern Shore, with a path to Hog Island Bay , a back bay off the ocean. Then I ran back.
Crossing the peninsular divide Rt. 13 was not much fun, but the path through Brownsville is a great place to run. Tall trees of a mature seaside hardwood forest on either side of the shell road. The road breaks out on a marsh where an eagle pair nests. A group of dead, salt-blasted pines has turned stark white like some alabaster pillars. At the end of the trail there is a small observation deck. Ran up the stairs. Nodded at the view across the bay. Then turned and ran back.
8.6 miles
1 hr 30 min
We're on the way.
That sounds like a great run--jealous!
ReplyDeleteIt is a great run but there's no hill training over here.
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