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Originally posted by mutthound:

I will be in Addison next week for a conference and I would like to run some nice loops while there.

Can anyone help me out?

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will you be staying in addison?


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Originally posted by pesiv:

will you be staying in addison?

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yes

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Originally posted by Lala Running:

I heard Keller has some parks with "hike/bike" trails. Do you know of any good trails in the north area? Thanks again.

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The main one is in Bear Creek Park. You can actually start over in the Keller Sports Park (where the soccer and baseball fields are) and head east into Bear Creek Park. Depending on how far you want to go, you continue east on the trail (concrete unfortunately) until you get to Keller-Smithfield Road. If you want to go farther, cross Keller-Smithfield and jump onto the road that's just across the street (can't remember the name right now). That road goes through Hidden Lakes and has a couple of nice hills on it.

To the south of where you are is the Heritage neighborhood. There are also some hike/bike trails in there, but I haven't been on them enough to give any decent feedback. They look nice, however.

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I heard Keller has some parks with "hike/bike" trails. Do you know of any good trails in the north area? Thanks again.

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Speaking of trails - while going up to Lake Grapevine is a great option (and RAW is a great club if you're looking for a running community to hook onto) , people living up in north FW sometimes fail to realize that in the same amount of time it takes to drive up to Grapevine, you can get to the Trinity Trails - a huge system with both paved and unpaved segments going on for 10s of miles in just about all directions.

BTW - I've lived in Park Glen nearly 10 years and find that the biggest crime problem is property crime - and generally crimes of opportunity. Open garages. Stuff left in cars. unattended bikes. They're all pretty much fair game. It's always seemed like a relatively safe place for a person on the streets, though. My wife is always out walking (by herself or with the dog) - day and nite. Although she does set some limits (no walking thru parks in the dark) - she's never expressed any fears for her personal safety.

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No Ray, she hasn't told me yet.  She may not remember your name.  But, if you're playing for our HS choir, I'll be there watching Emily, so I will definitely look forward to seeing you.

The half went great Ray! If I can sort my thoughts out, I'll do a race report later, but for now I'll just give you the highlights. My goal was 1:30:00 and I finished in 1:25:39, so obviously, I am tickled about that. The Houston course is flat with the exception of one short hill somewhere between mile three and five, I think. Crowd support was great, even in the less than desirable neighborhoods. Split times were called clearly at every mile. The weather was perfect. I didn't feel any pain or discomfort until about mile nine. Then I felt blisters starting to form on that bone behind my big toe. But it wasn't anything that couldn't be ran through. When I finished, I saw that I had actually bled through my shoe. I told my son that was my battle scar. Both feet are fine today, I am just sore all over.
As for Houston, I don't have anything nice to say about that town. The hotel service (downtown Courtyard Marriott) was awful. Couldn't find a "good" part of town. People, for the most part, were cold and unfriendly-except for anyone involved in the race-they were all great! We did drive down to Galveston while we were there and toured a submarine and ship and went to the Aviation Hall of Fame. Also the Space Center. So it was a good trip. Left Houston at 10:30 AM on Sunday, and managed to miss any ice, but saw where that part of Texas had sustained quite a bit of flooding.
Here's my race stats....
36th female, out of 3,985 overall.
5th female, out of 700, in my age group.
4th female from Texas.
So...even though I did not place, I am still very satisfied with how things turn out, and happy that I finished my first half marathon!

Cora,

Great job! I knew you could pull off an impressive Half. I remember that Labor Day a few years ago and how jazzed you were that you ran your first 15k. (That was the one we got rained on, as I recall.)

Two questions:
(1) Is there a marathon on your horizon?
(2)  Do you plan to run Haltom Stampede on Feb 10?  I'm planning to do the 10k.

Thanks MaryLou.  I did the Coyote Chase 5K a year or two ago, and there are WAY too many hills in Weatherford!  I can't even imagine doing a HM with that many hills, and in September heat!  !http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/eek.gif|src=http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/eek.gif|border=0!
(edited to fix my smiley)

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