November 25, 2023
When I titled this run “brisk” I wasn't referring to our speed but to the temperature. It was a crisp 17 degrees when we headed out and there was a bit of a breeze which dropped the feel to just below zero but it’s a run with friends and family so it can’t be all bad. My son Dan and his girlfriend Krissy are visiting from Pittsburgh, PA and we met Shelley at Josephine and Main in the Heights for this route:
The course is mostly flat and has its share of dead ends and some running of streets more than once but it’s an interesting part of the city with a wide variation of architecture. Here are Dan and Krissy at the end of our first dead end street.
Shelley is ready to run again.
Look carefully and you’ll see that this place has some outdoor plumbing.
This is one the east end of Rice Lane.
Some of the streets in this area are yet to be paved.
This is a nice park tucked away at the east end of Windsor Circle.
We saw some deer ahead of us. The headed between two houses and when I got there, one of them was peeking around the corner at us.
A few more deer were hiding in this yard.
Here we ran into our first obstacle. The map software I used indicated that we could proceed through here but the gate was locked it it appeared that we were on private private property on this side so we looked at the make and decided to go back out to Lake Elmo Drive and run the bottom part of the course in reverse.
This next section is large, very well-kept, trailer park called Windsor Estates where all the streets were named after the members of the Windsor family: Queen Victoria, Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, Princess Anne, and King Arthur among others.
When we arrived on the other side of that locked gate we saw a few deer hanging around.
We headed onto King Henry Place, an out and back and saw this house lording over all. My guess is that this was the original house on this property.
The smallest fire hydrant I have ever seen.
This single-wide had a log cabin motif and some nice yard art.
We ended up back on Lake Elmo Drive and turned on Josephine to get back to where we parked. Here’s one of the houses we passed.
At the screen shot below indicates, it was 15 degrees at the finish of our 6.65 miles. A fun run.
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