TRY Overtime

In a first, at least officially, TRY is going to continue meeting this fall until lack of interest or weather dictate otherwise.

Join us Tuesday night, November 20th, at 5:30, at the Syracuse Inner Harbor, where we will check out the yogging conditions under the lamps of the Onondaga Creekwalk.  It's narrow, and perhaps something that a solo female runner would not feel comfortable doing alone after dark, but I think it will serve our purposes well.  The fact that it is lit up by lamposts, and closed to traffic will allow us to continue our group running season a bit.

We will meet at 5:30 next to the amphitheater parking lot, do a dynamic warm-up, and then start running at 5:40.  (Allowing people to have a few minutes leeway to find their way.)  I don't think it will work very well for speed work, so we'll have to feel our way this week and see how the creek walk works for a group.  Plan on about a 4-5 mile run, which would mean we use most of the path, but perhaps not all of it.  I don't like to ask for an attendance list, but since this is new and I don't want to leave anyone behind (because I'm not sure which direction we'll run first), please let me know if you intend to be there.  (No need to let me know if you will not be there.)

Here are some links for you about our new location:
A google map, showing the route from Destiny, to the parking lot next to the inner harbor amphitheater.  (Of interest here is that the trees shown in that block between Bear, Van Rensselear, and Kirkpatrick, are all gone.  The last time I went through there, that entire block had been completely flattened.)  Use Solar street because last I glanced Van Rensselaer was still closed off to non-construction traffic.

Here is an article from back in August explaining the work that is underway (and the flattening of that block).

A more recent article again explaining the future vision for the inner harbor region.

Those two articles overlap a bit, but glancing at the "master plan" in either article is worth a look.  If that plan comes to be, it will be an amazing transformation!  Does Syracuse really have the jobs, money, and need for such projects?  (Wait, don't answer that...it may be too depressing.)