Saturday, February 7, 2009

Mill Creek Park Trail Run

The partially frozen waterfall next to Lanterman's Mill
After taking some photos/videos at the Dirty Dog 10K this morning, I drove to Mill Creek Park and met my brother at Fellows Riverside Gardens for a trail run. Today was the start of a "heat wave" and the temperature was a very pleasant 50 degrees when we began our run. The sun was even out too! With this recent warmup we weren't sure how icy the trails would be, but luckily there was still enough snow on the ground to keep decent traction. There were some areas that you had to watch what you were doing though. We ended up doing one 8 mile loop before heading over to Inner Circle Pizza in Youngstown for a bite to eat. Here are some more pictures from our run... the ice looked amazing in the park today!
During our run we also stopped at the Ford Nature Center, which surpsingly I've never been to until today. Earlier I stopped here to drop off a photo that my wife is entering into Mill Creek Park's photo contest. Here's the picture she took of Lake Glacier last September...

While inside the nature center Jeff and I checked out the animals they had on display that are native to N.E. Ohio...

1 comment:

Running 2 Mohican said...

The ice was cool up there and glad to see the critters were warm and inside.