Two 3.6-mile city rides and a jog.
My regular course will be the perimeter of City Park, which is three miles. In time I'll add more distance in the park, because if I'm to run 3.1 miles in a race I should be able to run more than that comfortably, right? Like maybe 5 miles? I dunno.
I don't know how this is possible but the north side slopes up to the east without opposite declines anywhere else that I've noticed. It's an Escher park. So I will run clockwise around the park and up that hill. "Run" being an exaggeration, of course. I jogged along the south side to the Esplanade, walked to the west side, ran up the west side, turned right and stopped. I also scurried across to City Park Golf Course to slurp from a tee's water cooler. I acknowledge it as trespass but is that really bad of me? I don't know how people run distances or in heat: yesterday was 70 but I was parched in less than 2 miles. I walked eastward up the slope and didn't pick up my pace until the easternmost entrance to the zoo, the one it shares with DMNS, then I ran back to my starting point, and walked home to cool down. It was 5:09 when I last looked at the clock but didn't start immediately, so it took me slightly less than 44 minutes to go three miles.