I have always named my running routes various nicknames in an attempt to add some fun to the running experience.  I have written about the Dead Man's Loop, which is the loop around our local airport.  Then there is the Kill Jane Run which is almost any trail run organized by Jane Hutchinson.  She has a habit of running in places where the deer think twice about going.  The Boot Hill loop runs up the hill on Madden Lane past the cemetery.  Running out at American Camp, along Jackels Lagoon Trail, taking the right up the really steep trail is the Meet the Buddha Run. 

You get the picture.

Last night, during the Head Lampers Group Run, I was telling Jane and Brian that I think of the section that winds down, on the Dead Man's Loop, past the college to Franklin Drive then, with the airport on your right,  up Franklin Drive to Spring Street, as a Prison Break.  Oh, you need to run this at night or in the dark.  Here's why.  As you come down past the college heading for Franklin you see the flashing lights from the airport and one of those flashing lights is a big bright white light - like a search light - that reflects off the hills.  Then as you move up Franklin to Spring Street dogs, who live in the farm house on top of the hill to your left, begin to bark and the combination of the search lights and the barking dogs gives me, at least, the sense of escaping from prison, thus the Prison Break Run.  It's kind of cool.  Give it a try sometime.

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