Naming your training runs

Kruger's Spine!

Ravine Loop (4,6,8miles)

GBT (0-17miles)

Centennial (7 miles)

Linden (6 miles)

Lake Forest (10 miles)

The Fort (8 miles)

Sunset (3 miles)

I've always just called my runs by the name of the street I hit that is furthest from my house. Kinda simple and lame at the same time.

skate park (6miles)

Llama Run (4.5 miles)

stevenson (12 miles)

prospect (11 miles)

palatine (10 miles)

st. viator (8 miles)

small square (4.5 miles)

big square (6.8 miles)

Long Grove (9 miles)

The P (2.5 miles)

Super skate park (8 miles)

usually are runs are to rival high schools. so we name them after thhem.

Fo's Bridge

Johnny Cash Hills

Jacks Loop, AKA Skinners Loop

Sandpits

Tri-County 10 (Runs through 3 counties)

Driveway Hill

Pasture Hill

Junkyard Hill

Red Carpet - named after red carpet in trail in the middle of the woods.

Donkey nuts

Hair on burnt poop

I have a run I call "The Humbler".

Rock Crusher

Triple Threat (consists of 3 bad ass hills)

Lake Loop

Some of the greatest names of all time (and also the greatest runs, too) are:

Four Plains

Seven Hills

Chicken Run

Cemetary Loop

10-mile Loop

401

Signal Peak

Tomichi

Town Loop

Cranor Loop

W Mountain

And, of course.....HARTMAN'S ROCKS!!!

God, I miss it!

Hippo

Hippo-Access

some of my named runs

east lake

city loop (5 miles through a depressed inner city)

bank run (9 miles of rolling hills..we go past a bank around 1st mile and 8th mile)

the nipple (2.5 hills one way (used to start up runs), final hill loop looks like a giant nipple)

days mill (4 miles down a trial, turn around at intersection of trial and days mill road)

leaders heights (7.5 miles of non stop hills)

Dump Run - 10 miles, close to the city dump at one point

Llama Loop - 10 miles, llama farm at one point

Mud Run - 6.5 miles, created and named long ago...no one the team is 100% sure

Short Chiefs - 8 miles, said to have been the favorite run of a guy on the team who was native american...pretty sure thats a myth

Long Chiefs - 10 mile version of the same run

Extended Long Chiefs - 12 mile version

Johnny Five - 5 miles, invented by two guys named John

Juan Seis - Johnny Five with a one mile extention

Such Great Heights - hilly 6-7 mile run with a view

Ridgeville - four miler that goes through the Ridgeview neighborhood near campus

Biddy Loop - non-structured loop that is run when the weather is nice and female students are laying out on the various open spaces of jmu's campus

Old Folks - two mile out and back that loops a retirement home

Hardees - two mile out and back to Hardees

Chedder Chicken - 7 miler that smells of either chedder or chicken at one point

Water Tower - five miler that goes by a water tower

Extended Water Tower - 7 mile extended version

Super Extended (Water Tower)- 9.5 mile version

Gay Run - mileage and route are only disclosed once a year

Creatine Run - a run so random it feels like follow the leader, goes by an old run down shack that had empty creatine containers in it

Arb Loop(s)- about a mile of woodchip trail

Purcell- 1.5 miles of gravel trail through a park

Lambert Loop (15.4)

Franklin/Lambert Loop (16.3)

Reclaimation Levee Loop (13.2)

Randall Island Loop (8.0)

Short Randall Island Loop (6.0)

Discovery Loop (4.75, 5.57, 7.0)

Almond Loop (9.5)

da'boys Lunch Loop (8.0)

Hood short (4.0)

Courtland Loop (10.5)

and a bunch of others left behind after 30 years of running . . .

7 through the park

Crazy 8

Sperm Loop

Stalker Loop

U of R Loop

Telephone loop

Crusader Loop

Bushwhacker Loop

Car Dealer Loop

...there are more, but I can't think of them at the moment.