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August 22, 2021September 4, 2023

Sanilac

Sanilac County Run

Most roads are 1-Mile by 1-mile square. But a few are .5 miles x 1 mile. I love it when I find these, as I only have to add a tenth of a mile to complete a 5K. Add a little to the start or end and make wide corners, and you’re good. Sanilac was an easy county to do because I was able to run this when I woke up and get a shower before check out. The start of a perfect day.

Sanilac County

Brown City
Applegate
Argyle
Austin
Bridgehampton
Buel
Carsonville
Croswell
Custer
Deckerville
Delaware
Elk
Elmer
Evergreen
Flynn
Forester
Forestville
Fremont
Greenleaf
Lamotte
Lexington
Maple Valley
Marion
Marlette
Melvin
Minden
Minden City
Moore
Peck
Port
Sandusky
Speaker
Washington
Watertown
Wheatland
Worth

Any place in Bold and Red are townships / towns /cities I’ve run a 5k for the county run (or the closest city to my county run) Any place in Bold and Blue are townships / towns / cities I’ve run anytime in the past. Any place in Bold and Green are townships / towns / cities I’ve done website / hosting / design work – best website builder for small business – WordPress design hosting and search engine optimization. I’m a small business website builder – contact me to get a website that works! If no Green color is on this page, please talk with me (Click Here). I’ll be encouraged to change one to Green!

August 21, 2021September 4, 2023

Tuscola

Tuscola County Run.

No real plan, but Lisa and I decided to take the kids on a little trip. We were thinking about going to the U.P. but we couldn’t find any hotels that were available. We decided to run down to the thumb and knock a couple counties off with the grand kids. So glad we did. The photo above the Grayling photos were the day prior, but The pictures of the military tanks and plane were taken today in Grayling.

Below is what I came up with as a plan for this run.

Tuscola County Run

Akron
Almer
Arbela
Caro
Cass City
Columbia
Dayton
Denmark
Elkland
Ellington
Elmwood
Fairgrove
Fremont
Gagetown
Gilford
Indianfields
Juniata
Kingston
Koylton
Mayville
Millington
Novesta
Reese
Tuscola
Unionville
Vassar
Watertown
Wells
Wisner

August 21, 2021September 4, 2023

Huron

Huron County Run

I made this plan while at the hotel in Bad Axe after running Tuscola on my way to Bad Axe – I plan to run Salinac County tomorrow. As you can see above, I didn’t follow it very well. Mainly because my phone was low on a battery charge, and I didn’t want to look at my phone very often.

Huron County

Bad Axe
Bingham
Bloomfield
Brookfield
Caseville
Chandler
Colfax
Dwight
Elkton
Fairhaven
Gore
Grant
Harbor Beach
Hume
Huron
Kinde
Lake
Lincoln
McKinley
Meade
Oliver
Owendale
Paris
Pigeon
Pointe Aux Barques
Port Austin
Port Hope
Rubicon
Sand Beach
Sebewaing
Sheridan
Sherman
Sigel
Ubly
Verona
Winsor

Any place in Bold and Red are townships / towns /cities I’ve run a 5k for the county run (or the closest city to my county run) cities I’ve run a 5k for the county run (or the closest city to my county run)Any place in Bold and Blue are townships / towns / cities I’ve run anytime in the past. Any place in Bold and Green are townships / towns / cities I’ve done website / hosting / design work – best website builder for small business – WordPress design hosting and search engine optimization. I’m a small business website builder – contact me to get a website that works! If no Green color is on this page, please talk with me (Click Here). I’ll be encouraged to change one to Green!

August 6, 2021September 4, 2023

Van Buren

Van Buren County Run

I stopped at this business to start my run. Nice quiet parking lot on the west side of the loop that I was planning on completing. I was hoping that I could see Lake Michigan as some point during this run.

I started by heading south on this main road. It had just finished raining hard.

I took another shot of flowers but this time tried to get closer to the flowers. There were so many I wanted to get close, but also to show how many there were. There was probably double or triple what is shown.

Found this screwdriver along this road and was happy when I found it.

The sun was going down. I was looking west (towards Lake Michigan). What a great shot.

I took this shot about 3/4 of the way south on the main road.

Here I am close to the turning point where I would head north on another road with homes on Lake Michigan. So I’m running and carrying a screwdriver and my phone.

Toward the south part of this road, there was some building with, I’m assuming, plants.

Here is a shot down the road heading north.

This was a place that looked like it was open to the public. A way of accessing the Lake, I was super tired and decided not to explore it.

This was some type of community with a bunch of upscale housing.

I could see a home on the Lake at the end of this road.

Here is another shot of the road heading north. I noticed a deep hole on the left side of the road. Sure enough, there was a small creek at the bottom.

Then I found this road and thought that I might get a look at the Lake if I ran down to the end of this road.

You could see the Lake but not well, but you could see these upscale homes very well.

All this time, I had been running with the found screwdriver in my hand, and I passed a few locals that probably wondered why I was carrying a screwdriver.

The photo above looks like a hops garden.

Here you could see Lake Michigan, but again not well.

Here is a home close to the road and you could see the Lake behind it. What a great place!

After I turned the corner heading east, I found this place with concrete sculptures all over. It looks like Mike has a business here. The great site was a cool finish to this run.

No plan other than wanting to knock another county off the map. I finished my business in Indianapolis and was on my way home around 3 pm. I was exhausted from the day’s work and my two runs yesterday. I decided I would only knock one run-off on the way home as it was getting dark when I arrived in Michigan. It was raining hard when I arrived at the place I first planned to run. I decided to drive another 15 minutes and see if it would let up.

I stopped at a gas station, and the rain had almost stopped. I filled up my tank and went inside to get something to eat, and it started pouring again. However, when I drove to the place that I found on the map on my iPhone, it had cleared up.

Van Buren County

Almena
Antwerp
Arlington
Bangor
Bloomingdale
Breedsville
Columbia
Covert
Decatur
Geneva
Gobles
Hamilton
Hartford
Keeler
Lawrence
Lawton
Mattawan
Paw Paw
Pine Grove
Porter
South Haven
Waverly

August 5, 2021January 2, 2024

Berrien

Berrien County Run

I stopped at the North part of Berrien County so I would have time to rest up while driving to Cass County after. I got off the expressway and found this little store, and parked my car there.

I was on a very small road that had access to homes on Lake Michigan. It was very exciting to think that I would see the lake soon, and maybe some outstanding homes.

This photo was one of the first homes I saw on the big lake. I didn’t realize that this would be the best look that I would get at the lake. Most homes were way down a long driveway with NO view of the Lake. So disappointing.

Today was a beautiful hot day, and this shot was at the top of the hill with the following spray-painted notes on the side of the road.

At the bottom of this hill was this note (above):

Halfway up:

90% of the way up:

Another home that you could see the lake behind, barely.

I ran south for a long time. I was lost in a book and didn’t realize that I had run most of my 5k without finding the place I should have turned around. When I looked at my phone, it said that I had already run 2.9 miles. So I turned around and finished the 5k, then walked the 2.7 miles back to the car. So bummed, I wish I was paying attention. This pic was on the walk back to my car.

I headed down to Indianapolis for a trade show for work, and I thought it would be great to knock a couple more counties off the list. July was utterly dead, not one county down that month, but June and May were both great. So above was my plan for this county (Berrien), and I was super tired from the drive. This path was well planned, and I don’t know what went wrong, but something did go off. I was lost in a story on my iPhone, and when I finally looked down after, I realized I was off the path I had 2.9 miles complete… I was super surprised and disappointed because that would mean I would need to run or walk back. This would make it a 10k. No problem doing a 10k, but I was already planning to run a second county right after this one. (Cass). So yes, I was super disappointed.

Driving past Grand Rapids this morning, it’s going to be a long drive.

Berrien County

Bainbridge
Baroda
Benton
Benton Harbor
Berrien
Berrien Springs
Bertrand
Bridgman
Buchanan
Chikaming
Coloma
Eau Claire
Galien
Grand Beach
Hagar
Lake
Lake Michigan Beach
Lincoln
Michiana
New Buffalo
Niles
Oronoko
Pipestone
Royalton
Shoreham
Sodus
Stevensville
Three Oaks
Watervliet
Weesaw

Any place in Bold and Red are townships / towns / cities I’ve run a 5k for the county run (or the closest city to my county run)

Any place in Bold and Blue are townships / towns / cities I’ve run anytime in the past.

Any place in Bold and Green are townships / towns / cities I’ve done website / hosting / design work – best website builder for small business – WordPress design hosting and search engine optimization. I’m a small business website builder – contact me to get a website that works! If no Green color is on this page, please talk with me (Click Here). I’ll be encouraged to change one to Green!

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