Starting this week, I’m changing up my weekly recap. Some weeks my recap might be a combination of GoPro (affiliate link) pictures telling the story of the week, some weeks it might be a paragraph talking about something that impacted my workout, and some weeks I might include something funny or embarrassing that happened to me. I’ll also share a weekly overview instead of going into details about my day-to-day workouts.
Enough blog housekeeping, let’s get on with today’s post…
On Friday, one of my biggest fears came true (again), only fortunately, it happened when no one was on that particular spot on the trail that runs parallel to the parkway.
I sometimes run or walk along the parkway and when I do I keep alert to the traffic coming toward me. Usually I’m more cautious farther up near where those dump trucks are pictured, and the road curves slightly. Cars and trucks come flying down that hill and I cringe thinking what would happen if a driver failed to make the curve and hit someone on the trail…
This makes the third such accident on this part of the parkway that I’ve seen. Who knows how many I’ve missed. The first accident happened in about the very same place several years ago and that’s one of the reasons I’m always on high alert as I run along there.
I would consider crossing the parkway and runing along the other side, but pretty much the exact same kind of accident happened there – a car left the road, crossed the trail, and knocked a tree over.
On Saturday afternoon, I walked over to check out the damage while keeping an eye peeled on the traffic behind me.
Rest in peace, little tree.
Stay safe out there!
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I feel the same way about the path on Claiborne (going towards Rt 7) where it curves – I think it is before the Walgreens. I’m always so nervous running there.
I’ve never run there, but yes, that seems like it would be another dangerous place.
I only run on trails or paths because I am afraid of cars but wow, I never would have imagined that you’d have to still look out for traffic there!
I know, it’s scary, huh?
I hate running near cars! Especially if I run with headphones and am not as aware of my surroundings as I could be.
I’ve just started running with headphones, and I think the same thing; although, I’m not sure you’d really be able to jump out of the way if you heard a car jumping the curb and heading toward you at 50 MPH. 🙁
You just never know…and can never be too careful. Scary isn’t it? I hope someone will replace the tree! I like your idea of the Run-Down. Thanks for linking Deb!
We can never be too sure of our safety. That tree was rather small so it must have been a replacement from a previous knocked down or diseased tree. Our HOA is very good, so I’m sure they’ll replace it.
Seriously scary! I had a car do that to me while I was biking on Saturday! I was on the road in the left turn lane and a minivan cut the turn short, nearly hitting me head on. He clearly didn’t see me, and veered to my right at the last minute. Didn’t even acknowledge me.
People are seriously distracted these days!
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That’s very scary. Glad you weren’t hurt!
I run in a city and cars can not go very fast, so I don’t worry too much about them veering off the road, but I can see why you’d be nervous. OMG that tree.
I think it is Kim who recently had a car go off the road right in front of her too. Scary.
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Just be careful out there. You never know when someone might slam on the gas instead of the break…
The trails I run on I just have to dodge mountain bikes usually…
That is scary how busy the path area is!!
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Dodging mountain bikers is probably more annoying than scary because I assume they’re not going super fast. Right?
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I think I’m gonna like the new blog posting format Deb. Dang we always have to be so keen on paying attention to the cars! Glad it did not turn out worse! While running at the beach the traffic was only 3′ from me and it sure did make me nervous. Thankfully there wasn’t that much traffic out when I ran early in the mornings!
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Thank you, but if you notice this week I’ve already made another big change. I did away with the photo background for my Weekly Run-Down chart, and made an infographic – inspired by your new one you’ve been using for the last few weeks. Thanks for the inspiration! 😀