Today Angel and I did the Artful Dash 5K on the Karl Sterner Art Trail. We are both out of shape, me more than her, and haven't done a race in a long time. And we didn't finish last! The race began at the entrance to Lafayette College, near the stairs.
Things have changed a lot at Lafayette since I worked there, and since my colleague and I walked there during lunch hour. Lafayette's SPOT is now Don Juan's Mexican Restaurant. I guess they moved from the almost on-campus location. It was tiny and this place is huge. We were disappointed that they were not serving taco's for breakfast. Sad. After the race I was ready, and they were a sponsor.
The road that runs next to the creek now has a huge brick archway with the name of the trail on it. I'm thinking Lafayette might have had something to do with that. And that road also has a huge sculpture. The "Easton flag" has been removed from the intersection and replaced it with a divided road. I need to go there and explore when I'm not doing a race.
The race started at the fancy archway and followed the road to Bushkill Drive (?). Then turned right, crossed the road, and we entered the path. We crossed the blue bridge, turned right and headed down the KSAT. Then we turned right on the nature path. When that ended we returned to the trail. At 13th street we turned around and went back. But this time we stayed on the path.
My ass was dragging. Angel was going strong. She kept spinning around and coming back for me. It took us 65 minutes to do the race. I think Angel would have finished in under an hour if she didn't keep coming back for me.
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Next race, we'll train.
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