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An honest try - Run It All

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 There's a informal trail system just near the house. It's a small area on one of the mesas south of the river. While the land is privately owned (and will get developed over then next 20 years) the people who live around it have created a literal maze of trails. So for one of my long runs, I got into my head that I would try to run it all. Yep - try to run every trail in the park. And all on the same day! I know most people do a "run it all" project for their zip code and take a few months to do it. It seemed like a perfect way to cover some miles, stay close to house if the weather warmed up and the trails got muddy and do something different.  In prep for the run it all challenge, I studied my Gaia and Strava -looking at all the social trails and how to connect them. It quickly became apparent that I wouldn't have any issues getting all the miles I wanted for the day. In fact, I might be running into doing more miles then I wanted. I started trying to plot out