Preston Guild Wheel (United Kingdom)

Submitted by erylann on Sat, 10/30/2021 - 08:52am
Description

The Preston Guild Wheel is a 21 mile circular 'greenway' around the city of Preston in the North West of England, featuring the River Ribble, historic docklands and Brockholes nature reserve. It was opened in 2012 and provides a mainly off-road and traffic-free running, cycling and walking route for all to use. The official start and finish point is at the Pavilion Café, Avenham Park.

There is currently a short diversion as the route joins Savick Brook which is due to last 3 years.

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South Sandia Peak (NM)

Submitted by nope0540 on Fri, 10/29/2021 - 01:02pm
Description

Embudito Trail:  This route starts and ends at the Embudito trail head parking lot. It ascends ~4 miles up  through Embudito canyon to Oso pass where you turn left and continue another ~mile on Embudito trail 192. You will then turn left on a trail (forgot the name) that ascends ~ 0.5 miles to the summit of S. Sandia peak.

Episode 161: Joe Gray: The best mountain runner ever, and you've never heard of him?

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Person-Person

We finish our 3-2-1 countdown interviews from the Men's podium of the US Mountain Running Championships with the winner, Joe Gray.  Joe is one of the best mountain/trail runners in history.  He is very articulate and insightful, and is extremely well respected by other runners, while some casual runners may not have heard of him.  How can that be?  Let's correct it!

Joe has won a ridiculous 20 National Championship races, as well as 2 World Championships, in addition to wins at countless (literally) other races - see his Bio below. 

Via Priula (Italy)

Submitted by aledpd88 on Fri, 10/29/2021 - 04:25am
Description

In 1593, the Venetian Podesta, Alvise Priuli, ordered the construction of a route that would connect the Po Valley with Valtellina and beyond the Alps: Via Priula, a route of great political and strategic importance that enabled the city of Venice to be connected with the passes of Spluga and Settimo, belonging to the Grigioni, without crossing the territory of the Duchy of Milan.