Chuck 9.3 / 8:48

30-mile week! Finished it off my running out military avenue and down Fort Street to the end of the Keystone Trail. Most of this was territory I have never run before. Very windy and boy did I feel it running up the hill from Benson Park to 72nd street. Probably similar to Brice Harris' hill.

The last time I had run the Keystone this far north was in 1997 after the October ice storm. All of the city's sidewalks were impassable from all of the fallen branches so I had to drive to the Keystone and run on it alone. I remember it getting dark and I was tripping on branches strewn across the trail.

Couldn't locate the old railroad tracks until I passed near an old bridge crossing the papio creek just north of Maple Street. I then ran by Chad Beardmore's work. I don't think he realizes how lucky he is to be working right on the edge of a former railbed.

Came back on Blondo street which I usually run out on. It's always interesting to run a route the opposite direction because you suddenly realize how many times you had actually been running down huge hills and hadn't realized it.