Name Your Running Routes

Jewish intersection a trail you get to from my school that goes by the intersection of King David and King Soloman

Someone Else's backyard: when we were trying to find a new running route we ran to the back of a soccer field where there seemed to be a lot of trees. In our approach there were a ton of mini bridges spanning over a small creek to someones backyard. eventually we did find a trail and after a couple miles it led us to a neighborhood where we found another trail that cut off from the street that was apparently through "someone else's backyard"

lake legendag

in the winter time a small pond by a much larger lake but by the same trail freezes over and we would go there 1-2 times in indoor tack and walk on the ice.

the wall

in summer practices we meet at a lake and if we run off of the normal trail loop we can reach another park where there is a wall of dirt that you climb up using the exposed roots. probably about 30 feet high

Narnia/nam

at the same lake we meet at in the summer there is a trial system where it brings you through an area that looks like narnia (theres even a random light post) and another that looks we call nam after Vietnam cause of the terrain

other ones are just names of lakes or ponds we run by and dont realy have any special backstory

All of my runs from high school and now college are all named after the road you are on when you are farthest away from your end point, (we never did point to point runs, we always started and ended on campus) or something you run by along the farthest road from the endpoint. My favorite name in high school was the series of runs called "line road", there are two roads that run parallel to each other and have a bunch of interconnecting roads, one of the furthest ones is called "line road", and there are roads that turn off shorter and still connect to the same parallel road, so we started to call one of these shorter runs "baby line road" and a shorter one was called "fetus line road", the shortest one was called "dirty thoughts line road". I won't need to say the name of this high school, if you went to this school you will know.

Runnerbro--"Jewish intersection a trail you get to from my school that goes by the intersection of King David and King Soloman"

Wouldn't the appropriate name here be "Hebrew Intersection"

Probably the funniest loop I have is the "sutter homes" loop. Because one long run I noticed every tenth of a mile there was an empty small sutter homes wine bottle, then a 4 pack box. This went on for a good 5-6 miles. scattered about in the ditch

I'm going to guess "sutter homes" loop is near a trailer park in California wine country.

"Yoga Pants" and "Double D's"

Named for the scenery on the routes.

"Jose's Hill"

We went on a run with a 3/4 mile hill and a park on top and saw our friend Jose at the park smoking weed.

We had a run in high school that we re-named "Devil's run" after we GPS'd it and it came out exactly 6.66 miles

Car graveyard: a classic easy day run, named for the rusted out car randomly sitting in the woods at the halfway point.

Narnia: I think just about every team has a trail run called Narnia.

JPNATUREVALLEY365 wrote:

"Jose's Hill"

We went on a run with a 3/4 mile hill and a park on top and saw our friend Jose at the park smoking weed.

This is definitely a Colorado school.

Skyline - name of a road that is part of the loop.

Simba - name of a 1.5 mile long hill. Downhill to start the run, up it 15 6:00 miles later.

Peanut Ridge - name of one of the hills and a dirt road on it.

Wildwood - name of a camp that the trail goes through.

Coach's loop - goes past what was coach's 2 houses ago

Red barn road - goes past a prominent barn

Morning loop - self explanatory

Golf course - don't get caught

Ride fields 2000 meters, straight, flat. Crazy fast workouts

Tilly Willy - name of an old bridge on this dirt road

Bumblebee - Don't really know, kind of got passed down

Long Town - Went through the whole town by our school

Short Town - Cut off a portion of long town

Chubbies - Ran next to a downtrodden restaurant bikers went to

Llama - Next to a llama/alpaca farm

Mud College - I'll let you guess

runnerbro wrote:

Narnia/nam

at the same lake we meet at in the summer there is a trial system where it brings you through an area that looks like narnia (theres even a random light post) and another that looks we call nam after Vietnam cause of the terrain

Funny, my high school team had a "nam" and my college team had a "narnia." Small world

Fruit Loop - A particular section of the local park known to be a loitering place for homosexuals.

Hill Loop - Loop with lots of hills

Bubba Sneak - Hill Loop shortened by where Bubba would sneak across

Geyser Pass - Hill Loop shortened by where Geyser would sneak across

VFW - Long run through the "bad" part of town with Very Few Whites

Marathon-Marathon - 27 mile point-to-point run used for your last long run Better Homes & Gardens - Past the better homes and gardens

I choose D2--coaches loop, goes past what was coach's two houses ago.

Love this one. Exactly the kind a run a team would name. Almost insignificant that the run passed coaches house twice removed and yet you still name the run after the landmark.

A few years back there was a lunch time running group at work. They used these names for the various routes.

Ho Chi Min trail

Sisters - went through a neighborhood with many streets with female names.

Blair Witch - through woods that must have looked like the movie

Merritt - after someone who lived on the route

Gazebo - it went by one

Rez - around a reservoir and back.

Service road - down an abandoned service road.

Gate - run to the gate, turn around.

Water company - around a public watershed.

Windy trail - past gate, add on with a single track.

Easter egg - first time we ran it was Easter Sunday. Got back and mapped it and it was shaped like an egg.

Lake Sylvia- hell for us. Our version of Magnolia Road. 2000 ft gain 7.5 out, turn around and come down. Sub 1:30 was the goal. There was always a different jerk who was feeling good and would blitz 1:20. Talking about it still makes me anxious. Hope you don't have to poop that morning or your going to be alone for a long time because it was on an old logging road in the national forest. There was a single house or car for miles.

Not sure why it had the name.... there was no lake?

All my routes:

"Regular Route" - 8 mile route around perimeter of poor side of town

"Reverse-Regular Route" - just Regular Route backwards

"Fred Meyer Route" - 4 mile route around the grocery stores, then follow that up with a few miles of running aimlessly til I'm done with however many miles I'm supposed to do

"The Fun Route" - 8.5 mile hilly route

"The Funner Route" - The Fun Route but taking the longer way back to the parking lot

"Edgewood Route" - 12 mile route to the rich side of town and back that has a huge hill called Edgewood

"Scenic Route" - 14 mile route to the rich side of town and back that a huge hill called Scenic Hill

"Ghetto Route" - 8 mile run through the ghetto and along the river path, I've only had the balls to run it twice while pitch black in the morning despite having this route for 5 years.

"LBCC Route" - 8 mile route near the community college

"LBCC Route #2" - 14 mile route to the community college, around the campus, around some expensive houses near a trail, and back home.