Walking Lynx Hollow Road



To say that this April has been unusual would be a huge understatement even though my plans this year were to not leave Oregon to travel until May because of doctors appointments. Every year from 2015 - 2019 I was on the road in April visiting family and friends and adding more states to my states raced list. 



Sometimes all of my April races were in Missouri and other times I raced other states going to or from Missouri. The main point is that April has been a big travel month for me. In 2015 I raced twice in St. Louis. In 2016 I was recovering from knee surgery and my first race post op was an 8 mile race in the snow in Greenland, Colorado on my way home from Missouri. In 2017 I raced three races in St. Louis including the first that Chase ran with Stacie and me. That spring 2017 trip including visits in Missouri, Georgia, Florida to celebrate my son Jeff’s 50th birthday, Massachusetts to see my uncle Billy for the last time, New Hampshire to see my son in law Tom’s parents and by my niece a six pack of beer with St. Bernards on the cans at a brewery in Manchester and finally to New York to visit my brother Rob and his wife Cindy. In 2018 I raced in Arkansas for the first time on my way to St. Louis and then raced in Ozark, Missouri the last two days in March. Then three races in St. Louis and finished off with a Reunion Run at the Cherry Creek Sneak in Denver on my way home. Finally in 2019 I ran one of the hardest races I’ve ever done, The Ozark Foothills 25K in April. 

How has 2020 been different? We’re living through a pandemic where we’re supposed to minimize exposure to other people especially if you are considered higher risk which I am because of my age and anemia that they still haven’t figured the cause of. So other than one visit to the VA in Eugene to have blood drawn I have not left the property except to walk on Lynx Hollow Road. 





As of today with four days left in April I’ve walked 118 miles on Lynx Hollow and I did all three of my virtual events on Lynx Hollow. I’m not complaining. I’m grateful I have a country road right outside the ranch where I can get out and walk where it is reasonably safe. 





As the pictures show it’s just a two lane road with rolling hills. I don’t know yet what May will bring but I know I’ve got four virtual events scheduled and I would sure like to do some of them on some flatter and different courses. Time will tell. 

When you get to mile three you’re almost at the end of the road. 








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