Indiana - Michigan - Faster than the service

A quick 4 mile run on a country road leading to lunch at the lake. I told them to go ahead & order but no food had been served. So at least I was faster than the service! Of course, our waitress was recovering from a skateboarding accident and wearing a leg cast. Oh well, we all have an excuse at the finish line don't we?

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Indiana - Illinois - Running the Wabash Cannonball

Thanks to my crack researcher, I found an old, one-lane 2-section bridge - the Wabash Cannonball Toll Bridge from St. Francisville, IL to Indiana, over the Wabash River. That means that traffic can only go one direction at a time. Basically, that means that (people in) cars look to see if another car is on the bridge & if not, it can go. As a runner, it means run as fast as you can because you never know when another car will enter and your "right" to the bridge is tenuous anyway. The bridge is probably safe enough but some of the boards bounce up when weight goes on one end. The trusses in the middle portion of the single lane are not covered and are a broken ankle or at least a nasty fall waiting for those that lose focus - but remember to focus on getting across the bridge as fast as possible before there is oncoming traffic or even traffic flowing the same direction.

Watch that left foot - a few more inches to the middle would be dangerous!

Here is someone's video of the bridge - set to Johnny Cash's famous song about the train - The Wabash Cannonball

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Indiana - Ohio - Running this land for you & me

I looked up & I saw a small 2 lane highway running straight ahead with a field on either side, a long dip down followed by an equal climb back up. The road seemed to abruptly end in the horizon - indicating to me that another dip & rise might follow there as well. Sometimes when I run, I have a song or some music in my head, but weirdly enough today I thought of a runner's version of Dylan singing of Woody Guthrie's classic:
As I was running that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway
I saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me.
I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps.....

Bond Road just off Brooks - Whitewater, Ohio

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Indiana - Kentucky - The Big Four Run

The Big Four Bridge is a six-span former railroad truss bridge that crosses the Ohio River, connecting Louisville, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville, Indiana. Built originally in 1895 & rebuilt/reopened as a pedestrian bridge in the summer of 2014, it is the place to cross the border & link together a few riverfront trails on both sides. There is only 1 uphill each way and it is slow & gradual. Also, a speaker was pounding out classical music (Siri couldn't identify the tune) at the state border at the middle of the bridge but NOT on the other parts. This was my first audio border.

Running the Big Four Bridge - Jeffersonville IN to Louisville KY

Belle of Louisville - Trail along Ohio River in Louisville

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