MFH (My Favorite Husband) and I ran the Schaeffer’s Chapel route this morning. \u00a0To reach the Chapel, we have to cross Highway 45 South. \u00a0They have been working on turning the Highway into a four lane from a two lane.<\/p>\n
I have logged many running miles on the new section of Highway 45 South. \u00a0The feel of fresh, springy asphalt under one’s feet is a wonderful, wonderful thing. \u00a0My feet have been very happy during the time the highway has been under construction.<\/p>\n
But, all good things sometimes come to an end. They are opening the new highway on Thursday.<\/p>\n
In farewell to my “New Highway” I intend to run my first long training run for my 50K on that stretch of road.<\/p>\n
From our driveway to the end of the blockaded section of new construction is 8 miles. \u00a0On. The. Button. \u00a0That makes 16 miles out and back! \u00a0When I was training for the 50 miler, I would run that over and over. \u00a0I knew every inch of that road. \u00a0I have missed running it what with the stress fracture and all.<\/p>\n
So,<\/p>\n
I am really glad to be able to have one last chance to run a long run on that stretch of road. \u00a0It will be bittersweet. \u00a0I am looking forward to it!<\/p>\n
They have large, round bales of hay in the middle of the new highway right now~This tells me that tomorrow they will be spraying grass seed on the shoulders of the road. \u00a0This also tells me that it will be a messy run.<\/p>\n
I do not care. \u00a0This is my last chance to run this road. \u00a0I will miss it. \u00a0It has been good to me.<\/p>\n
Farewell, old friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MFH (My Favorite Husband) and I ran the Schaeffer’s Chapel route this morning. \u00a0To reach the Chapel, we have to cross Highway 45 South. \u00a0They have been working on turning the Highway into a four lane from a two lane. I have logged many running miles on the new section of Highway 45 South. \u00a0The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}