Running 1:37:31 [3] 10.5 mi (9:17 / mi) +190m 8:48 / mi
From the Lathrop E. Smith Environmental Education Center parking lot near Lake Bernard Frank, trails along th creek to the Intercounty Connector (ICC) Hwy, then to the west side of the creek north of the ICC. From there, I wandered the trails amids the scattered trees, pipeline and forest. The big field with the scattered trees is essentially rough open ground that's undergoing succession. Most of the woods that I was in were pleasant enough and were going through successionary transition too. The scrubby bushy trees were giving way to hardwoods. Deer must have been keeping the understory clear; I saw several of them. I recorded the trails in and out of the trees on my new GPS watch. Many of the grassy trails were intermittant. They hadn' been mowed in a long while and were not that fast to run through. A pipeline ride was more clear than the rest. I hadn't expected to go this far but I kept coming across trails that seemed worth checking out. In my wanderings, I found another tunner under the ICC. Perhaps it'll help me in my quest for a northwest passage between Lake Frank and Lake Needwood. It wasn't clear if the tunnel put me into private land south of the ICC or not. There were a lot of horse jumps there. I did find a rather pleasant set of woods with some nice scattered boulders. I aim to get this area mapped one day. Access to it coud be difficult but it would be reachable by Blue course runners from Lake Frank, or for doing some longer events. After getting back home and having drank some, I weighed 169.5 lbs.