If spring won't come to us, we will go to spring! BGY, 'Bent and I took a road trip to Ancaster to run the Sulphur Springs trails. We were all grinning ear to ear. Actual bare trail! Traction! No post holing! Shorts! Shirtless BGY! Sure, there was a fair bit of mud and the occasional patch of ice but trail conditions were amazingly good. Such a treat. I wish I could go there again tomorrow. :)
Photo by BGY
The boys ran at their own pace but we met each other five times as we took wrong turns trying to follow the race course map on our 1st lap, then did a shortened 2nd lap. I've been in the Dundas Valley so often that people might think I would know it well but I've almost always been focused on an orienteering map or following a local runner or watching course markers in a trail race. There were a bunch of stops off the clock to check my printed cartoon race course map against signs. I messed up a little, as did the boys, but it didn't really matter.
We found a big patch of snow in the shade south of the trail on the G. Donald Loop near the HCA works building. It should be perfect for Trav to make snow angels during his birthday run on Sunday.
Then Domestique... sigh. Now that we don't have The Shed in our neighbourhood anymore, this was bittersweet - but yummy.