Yesterday, armed with jelly beans and a bottle of water, I decided to try to run/walk the Huckleberry trail which goes from Christainsburg (I picked it up at the Mall) up to the Library in Blacksburg. It's about 6 miles and honestly I did more walking than running, and stopped to take photos. (But I did complete the whole 6 miles so I am happy just to finish any which way!)
The trail is very pretty and thankfully it wasn't very warm today (though I was not thinking that while waiting for the bus on the way back home).
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| Trail map |
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| Start of the trail in Christiansburg |
It was also Graduation at VT so most people were in town and I pretty much had the trail to myself. Which was great except when the trail disappeared or split and I got a bit lost. But I generally found it again fairly quickly.
The only other people I saw were a few runners and some cyclists. The other runners I saw were much better than I was, usually wearing "I ran a marathon" type t-shirt (making me feel very inadequate).
Part of the trail goes through the coal mine Heritage Park and over some railway tracks.
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| Longest coal train. Never did see the end of it. |
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| Old coal cart. |
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| Really cool bench |
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| Stream |
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| View towards the Appalachians |
Once I finally found the Library, frankly I hurt. But it did bring me out near Bollo's and they had chocolate cake! So happy.
At home I treated myself to a hot bath, a handful of Ibuprofen, and cup of tea, and then completely homemade nachos with veggie chili and guacamole followed by the chocolate cake with custard (brought from the UK). :-) Good day.
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