Where would your final run be?

I know LRC loves to heap scorn on trail runners, but no way in hell would my final trot be on the road.

My grandfathers ashes are scattered at the top of a local mountain range. I would run there. After that my kids can just roll me into a ditch up there, it's all good. Would save them some money too.

To my 108th birthday party.

I'm with Runny Dummy, somewhere in the wilderness. I'm not too particular about where.

I'd run 2900 meters at my high school's track where I did my first of thousand miles over my career. I ran it in basketball shorts and T-Mac 2s (that's Tracey McGrady for any teenagers).

The Gettysburg horse trails

I'd run the same route as my first run on the track team in high school as a freshman. Back where it all started

A'sARacing wrote:

Where would your final run be?

This is an interesting question; not sure it has been discussed on here. Don't remember it coming up in the Cancer Guy thread, but not sure.

I think I would want to experience a few runs like in a redwood forest, maybe along some historic/scenic coastal route along the way. Then I would plan my final run somewhere familiar (on trails) where I live with a select group of people.

There's an awesome park near where I grew up with lots of trails and an old stone mansion. It's a few hours from where I live now. My high school ran a race there twice a year and my senior year I had my sort of big breakthrough there at a race. I would sled ride on a big hill at this park all through childhood and high school. In the summers during college I would run between 5 and 10 miles on the trails 2-3 times a week. When I was dating my wife we did several picnics in the lawn of the stone house and I've also taken my three kids on hikes through the woods there.

That's where I would want my last run to be. Hartwood Acres, north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Mesa trail in Boulder. I'd run it from chatauqua south, pop out in Eldorado, and then run up dowdy draw, add on the new 4 mile loop, then head up to the marshall mesa loop, and take community ditch back to south mesa trail head. then the lower mesa trail back to chatauqua. Gotta be about 27 miles, an excellent last run involving all my favorite memories from running in Boulder...

A few private "secret" trails in the Redwoods.

anywhere in the UP along lake superior, preferably pictured rocks (chapel loop) or north of Marquette along the north country trail/Mqt 50 course.

Luckily it wasn't on my 4 mile "easy" day loop when i had a heart attack this last July. 18 miler sunday, heart attack on my 4 miler on Tuesday.

On the trails where I started running. Something about your high school training spot that never gets old.

A Duck wrote:

A few private "secret" trails in the Redwoods.

where are these trails? redwood regional park?

My hometown park.

On the high school track where I started running back in 1977.

A sobering question. Hard to answer. I did not run in high school or college (on a team) and so I do not have those memories. Perhaps in my old home, NYC. Perhaps somewhere in northern New England. The course of my first 5k here (locally) would be interesting.

I'd want it to be a race. Preferably a familiar road course that included my club members and local competitors. Everybody competing hard. PR and or 'win' wouldn't matter - just a good, honest-effort race.

At where my family lives, out in the country pastures of central Texas, on the little dirt road that goes on for 20+ miles past cattle pastures and little farm houses, and that goes past the family cemetery and tiny church that amazingly is still standing since around the civil war. I run there now every chance I get, so I can't imagine the overwhelming emotions of one last run at the most beautiful, homelike place I can think of.