Today’s Run:  11.00 miles

“Over the river and through the woods, to Grandmother’s house we go…”  That is the song that drifted through my head over the course of our 11 mile run today.

We ran the “Roll Tide” loop today with the running group.  I call it the “Over the river and through the woods” loop.  Why in the world would I call it that!?!

You see, we cover a great deal of countryside on the Roll Tide loop.  This includes a little bit of trespassing.  It we cut the loop short (which we did not do today), it includes cutting across a yard and crawling under a fence.  Either way, it includes climbing over a gate at the horse park~ A gate that was not meant to be climbed~in my humble opinion.

We passed the white and black cows (white and chocolate milk) at the Mississippi State University veterinary school.  We passed the horses at the vet school, too.  We passed Sherwood Forrest (a housing development) and waved at Robin Hood. We passed all sorts of landmarks until we reached THE GATE.

I am vertically challenged (4’11”) so this gate is HUGE!  It comes at mile 8.50 of our 11.00 mile loop so we are tired by the time we reach it.  (But is also means we are almost to the end of the gravel.  Yay!)  My husband just kind of gives a “hop” and he is over.  Me?  Well…