Nichole and I went for a gorgeous 60 minute run on the Lebanon hills trails yesterday. We made the short drive from our house to the Jensen Lake trail head, and from there worked our way out as far as Portage Lake before we made our way back to the start. In all we probably covered between 6 and 7 miles, with probably 2/3 of our time spent on the hiking trails and 1/3 spent on the horseback riding trails. The hiking trails are more winding with firmer footing, but the horse trails are wide enough to run side-by-side and are also a bit less hilly. Both were great for running.
This is a great time of year to be running on trails. It was 50 degrees and sunny (perfect running weather), the trails have pretty much dried out (the only mud was right along Jensen Lake where it is usually muddy - the rest of the trails were in perfect shape except for a couple of fallen trees), and the bugs are not out yet. I would highly recommend Lebanon Hills to anyone looking for trails to run on. They have 20 miles of trails if you count both horse and hiking trails, they are very well marked (although the trails do cross each other a lot - I print out a map and fold it so that it fits in a plastic sandwich bag so I can navigate on the run).
Get out and run!
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