Toots and Sally Ride Again

The Toots traveled up to The Minnesota for a trail half marathon. We all convinced her that she should run and experience it.

Those of us on the Northern end of I-35 ran it last year, and it was much fun! So The Toots, Sally, and Lumpy planned to run the Big Woods Half Marathon. Nice little 13.1 miles of mostly trail in Nerstrand State Park. Whoops….uh…NOPE!

When we arrived we discovered that the race route had been changed due to weather. Yes, yes, the rain caused a lot of potential problems on the trails and the race directors did the right thing and altered the course to protect the trails from the feet of several hundred runners. Well, fine, but they altered it into a frackin’ road race. A ROAD RACE!!!

Um. NO! No! No! and NO! We didn’t want to run a road race  and The Sally and I were not wearing road race gear…so we made a change…

And thus begins the Afton Half Marathon !

So we hatched this plot to ditch the Big Woods Run and dash off…driving all over God’s Half Acre to Afton State Park. There, we donned our race numbers and ran something +/- 13.1 miles of greuling trail. And thus begins the Afton Half . More to follow, soon…