Today’s Run:  5.50 miles

Call me paranoid.  Accuse me of having an overactive imagination.  When we run the St. Paul M.B.Church route, I get the heebie jebbies!

The route to St. Paul M.B. Church follows the river bottom of the TomBigBee River.  This is where people come to go alligator hunting~and they are successful!  This is also the place where you see snakes.  Ewww!

Due to all the rain we have received this Spring, the swampy areas along the river bed are swampier than ever.  The mosquitoes are out enforce.  We really, most sincerely had our eyes open and alert this morning for the alligators and snakes.  I kid you not.  This is their territory, not ours.

This is a lonely stretch of gravel road.  Not heavily traveled.  We passed Kudzu stretching over the road bed this morning, undisturbed.  It is solitary.  It is hidden, cloistered, remote.  It is perfect for an early morning run.

St. Paul’s M.B. (Missionary Baptist) Church is the turnaround point of our run.  It is right at the edge of the maintained portion of the county road system.  We run on the Un-maintained portion of the road.  Gravel, bumpy, potholes…keeps you on your toes!

But, it was a lovely morning for a run.  We arrived home in one piece.  No alligators.  No snakes.  Just tired and sweaty from a run successfully completed.  Well done.