Phantom

I saw your comment on Holt's blog about the Painter's course and I thought I'd let you know that I put it in on the Course Tool, if you want to look at it there. It is probably 2/3 paved trails and 1/3 roads. Not a bad course, but not way fun either. And thanks for the well wishes for my face - and BTW my dad didn't even make me pay him to have him torture me! What a deal! ;)

Good run in the cold, wind and rain - way to keep up your miles in the winter, you're awesome!

Nice miles lately! In the beastly weather too.

Painters - Ruth's course outline is about as right on as you could get. It starts at the new Dixie Center and heads north up along the freeway and Morningside area for about 2 miles until you connect to RiverRoad and then you go South (toward Bloom. Hills) when you cross the bridge you get on the paved trail and run on it for a couple miles until it weaves you into Bloom. Hills and you go quick through the park and into a neighborhood (biggest uphill section is through here). Then you connect back onto the trail as you are now up above the River on the south side. You follow this paved trail along the cliffs and then drop back down and across the river and continue on the trail down to Bloom. Then you loop around Bloom. Golf course on the road (but you have to stay to the outside of the road which is a pain in the butt). After this 2 mile loop, you connect back to the paved trail and double back up the river to the Dixie Center (providing they fill in the enormous hole that was there on Sat. when I ran!). It is a good course, very challenging, and also very fair. It is worth it, you should come down and do it.