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Saturday, I ran in the four mile event of the Greenleaf Trail Run<\/a> at Oklahoma’s beautiful Greenleaf State Park<\/a>. I say I ran, its more like I participated with my running friends Paula, left, and Melissa. We trotted a few hundred yards out of the four miles and the rest of the way speed walked it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There were three races, a twelve mile, eight mile, and ours and each started separately. Since these are trail races, there is almost always a traffic jam right away. Nobody worries about it much though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We ran through a bunch of great views including a segment out and back on a dam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The State Parks do a great job of keeping the brush down in the parks. The lack of thorns is especially appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Melissa and Paula on the trail. I was wearing some brand new Hoka One’s that I bought over a year ago just before I had to quit running. A lot of the trails were on side slopes, which is fine, but the Hokas were too high and put a lot of torque on my ankles. Plus they were not broken in yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Warning ahead! Bigfoot area. Eastern Oklahoma is a hot bed of Sasquatch sightings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here is the critter himself. It was groundhog day. I didn’t see any groundhogs but Sasquatch couldn’t see his shadow, so does that mean we are having an early Spring?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All three of us finished the race vertically so that was good. I thought the race was great. The course was beautiful, the package pickup was well organized. I love the cotton poly blend long sleeve tee shirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They had cool coffee mugs at the end for everybody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They had great medals as well. You can see Melissa’s above. I went bushwhacking for a nearby geocache at the end of the run. I didn’t find the geocache but the medal fell off when I was out there. Anyway it was cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n