FKT: John Shep - Uxbridge Rail Trail + Beaver River Wetland Trail (ON, Canada) - 2021-04-23

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one way
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Male
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Total time
3h 22m 50s
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Only during a Canadian spring can you start a run with snow on the ground and end it with a sunburn!

Peaceful, flat and scenic, this was a chance to turn my brain off and enjoy the scenery.  Little traffic, no animals (this time!) and a calm wind made this my most enjoyable outing on this trail ever.  I also appreciated the very obvious start/endpoint in Woodville - Google Maps made it seem like the GPS file on the route was a little short, but as you can see in the pictures, the route ends in Woodville with a fence and cement barricade.

I did do the out-and-back, but this FKT is one way, from Woodville to Uxbridge (YAY, NEGATIVE SPLIT!!!).  On the website, this would be from 20.45 miles to 40.91 miles.

I cannot complain with how it went.  Stomach held up really well with the food that I carried (steady supply of Tailwind, oreos, dates and Hammer gels).  Would have preferred a little more water by the end (I had a 2L bladder and 2 14oz bottles), but wanted to keep it "unsupported."  If you were to want to refill on water and didn't have a water filtration system (there are a number of lakes and the obvious "Beaver River," but the extent of my outdoors-personness is limited to trail running), there is an ESSO gas station on Esso, Centre Street, Sunderland, Brock, that would also provide food refills.