Ricardo Estremera crushes a 4:02.07 mile at the Rex

People were still running the fourth annual Rex Cleveland Road Mile, but the winner, Ricardo Estremera, was already halfway back to the starting line.


"4:02!" said Estremera. "That was fun!"


Indeed, Estremera had run 4:02.07 on that Sunday afternoon, 3 November 2019, setting a new record for the Rex. The old record? A 4:09.14 run by Estremera in 2016 at the first Rex. You might attribute the fast time to the downhill course--the Rex starts at some of the highest ground in Tallahassee, Florida, the heights near the Capital City Country Club, then plunges downward to finish on FAMU Way, where the water of the Saint Augustine Branch lurks in a box culvert, just under the roadway. Just over halfway through that descent, the runners cross South Monroe Street on the Capital Cascades Bridge.

Ricardo Estremera

The mile started at 4:30 PM. Estremera was in the lead, the escort bicyclists struggling to stay ahead of him.


"My watch stopped working, so I was just going by how I felt," said Estremera.


He must have felt pretty good. Bill McGuire clocked Estremera's splits at 59, 1:59, 3:02, and 4:02--not as fast a start as in 2016, but a much better finish.


"I felt a lot stronger," said Estremera. "It would have been nice to have someone close, especially with 300 meters to go. That could have pushed us under 4:00."

George Gwynn and Patrick Koon

No one was close at the 2019 Rex; Estremera was almost 300 meters ahead of the next runners. Behind him, Patrick Koon and George Gwynn were racing for second. Koon broke away at the bridge, then raced home second in 4:53.87. Gwynn was third in 4:59.47. Paul Guyas was the first master runner in the race, placing sixth overall in 5:18.40.


Estremera ran the race alone, but the women's competition was closer, with Cecilia Bouaichi and Clifton Lewis vying for the top spot.


"Clifton was right behind me the whole time," said Bouaichi. "Near the end she was right next to me so I definitely picked it up the last tenth of a mile."

Cecilia Bouaichi and Clifton Lewis

That final surge was enough to give Bouaichi first in the women's standings. She was tenth overall in 5:37.22, just off the women's record of 5:34.19, run by Amy Hines in the 2016 Rex. Lewis, a middle school cross-country runner, was the second female finisher and twelfth overall in 5:40.47. Cecilia Veliz, another middle school harrier, was the third woman and fourteenth overall in 6:07.87. Angela Dempsey was the first woman master and fourth female finisher, sixteenth overall in 6:22.34.

Cecilia Veliz

Track has been Estremera's forte, where he has specialized in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and posted a best of 3:45 in the 1500. He's beginning to shift to the roads now, and four weeks before the Rex he ran a 1:07:44 at the 30A Half Marathon. His next race will be back in Tallahassee.


"Turkey Trot!" he said. "I really want to get that record."


Estremera has won the 2018 Tallahassee Turkey Trot 5K in 14:53, missing the record of 14:46 set by Matt Mizereck in 2010. Record or no, win or lose, presumably that will be fun, too.


93 athletes finished the 2019 Rex Cleveland Road Mile. Gulf Winds Track Club chip-timed the race.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2019 Rex Cleveland Road Mile

1. 4:02.07, Ricardo Estremera (M, 33)
2. 4:53.87, Patrick Koon (M, 14)
3. 4:59.47, George Gwynn (M, 22)
4. 5:07.42, Jackson Rowe (M, 13)
5. 5:10.88, Tristan La Nasa (M, 26)
6. 5:18.40, Paul Guyas (M, 42)
7. 5:22.43, Randy Manausa (M, 11)
8. 5:27.31, John Deloach (M, 22)
9. 5:35.25, Jonathan Kiros (M, 11)
10. 5:38.47, Asa Swope (M, 12)

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2019 Rex Cleveland Road Mile

1. 5:37.22, Cecilia Bouaichi (F, 24)
2. 5:40.47, Clifton Lewis (F, 11)
3. 6:07.87, Cecilia Veliz (F, 12)
4. 6:22.34, Angela Dempsey (F, 51)
5. 6:39.72, Kennedy Bell (F, 11)
6. 7:00.65, Charlotte Sikes (F, 8)
7. 7:03.34, Kaari Guyas (F, 12)
8. 7:03.97, Sade Guyas (F, 11)
9. 7:04.85, Vicky Droze (F, 44)
10. 7:24.22, Kim Sims (F, 40)

Winners of Gulf Winds Track Club's Rex Cleveland Road Mile, 2016 - 2019
Date	Men	Women	Finishers
2 November 2016	4:09.14, Ricardo Estremera	5:34.19, Amy Hines	174
5 November 2017	4:25, Charlie Johnson	5:53, Jillian Heddaeus	163
4 November 2018	4:47.38, Michael Niezgoda	5:53.15, Stella Lewis	76
3 November 2019	4:02.07, Ricardo Estremera	5:37.22, Cecilia Bouaichi	93

Links

• Complete results of Gulf Winds Track Club's 2019 Rex Cleveland Road Mile
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS1cW0bsBbFtdL9srvrYWV3qVYPITz-9PcQvU4kUtKqvYJNL0tmwDJvoJ-Bu0rbeEw37aGv924UVe6V/pubhtml
  
  
• More Trouble Afoot! photos of Gulf Winds Track Club's 2019 Rex Cleveland Road Mile
  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10114542340664583
  
  
• 2018 story, “Michael Niezgoda and Stella Lewis run down wins at the Rex Cleveland Downhill Mile”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2018/11/cleveland-mile-2018.html
  
  
• 2017 story, “Johnson and Heddaeus take the plunge at the Rex Cleveland Downhill Mile”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/11/cleveland-mile-2017.html
  
  
• 2016 story, “Presto! Estremera and Hines prevail at the Magic Mile”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/11/cleveland-mile-2016.html
  
  
• Course map of Gulf Winds Track Club's 2019 Cleveland Magic Mile
  https://app.box.com/s/xcz07n0orcocpfucmd578spm9r1cbxpc
  
  
• Upcoming miles and marathons, magical and mundane, on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

#2639

Michael Niezgoda and Stella Lewis run down wins at the Rex Cleveland Downhill Mile

Sunday, 4 November 2018, was the day that tens of thousands of athletes were on the streets of the Big Apple, running the 26.2 miles of the 48th New York City Marathon. For a smaller group of athletes in Tallahassee, the focus that day was on a single mile, Gulf Winds Track Club’s third annual Rex Cleveland Road Mile. Michael Niezgoda won the race in 4:47.38, and Stella Lewis was the first female finisher, placing fourth overall in 5:53.15.

Michael Niezgoda

The mile is usually a track event, but occasionally mile races are run on less traditional courses. In the years immediately after World War II, Atlantic City, New Jersey staged an annual race on the city’s boardwalk. The goal of the Boardwalk Mile was to get a sub-4:00 performance. The race was entirely straight, a tailwind was possible, and some years the leaders were paced by a relay team. Without any of those advantages, Roger Bannister became the first athlete to break 4:00 for a mile, running in a different race on a track on the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean. After that, interest in the Boardwalk Mile dwindled and the race faded away.


New York City revived the idea of an off-track mile on a straightaway in 1981 with the first running of the annual Fifth Avenue Mile. In Tallahassee, George West did New York one better, organizing the Belle Vue Mile. West’s course on Belle Vue Way was not only straight, but entirely downhill. Additionally, he treated the athletes to beer and oysters after the race.

Stella Lewis

The Rex Cleveland Road Mile is Tallahassee’s most recent downhill mile. First run in 2016, the race starts in the heights near the Capital City Country Club, plunges to Cascades Park, crosses South Monroe Street on the Cascades Park Bridge, then descends the bridge to finish along FAMU Way, following the course of the Saint Augustine Branch.


“It’s really a downhill three-quarters of a mile,” noted master runner Bill McGuire. “You better save something for that last level quarter mile.”

Jim Halley

Even the last quarter mile is slightly downhill, or the Saint Augustine Branch wouldn’t flow downstream. It probably doesn’t feel downhill to the runners, though, not after the pounding their legs take during the drop early in the race.


That initial downhill is dramatic enough that Niezgoda came through the first quarter-mile in 64 seconds. He had run track for Livonia Churchill High and for the University of Alabama, but his average pace for a mile had never been that fast. It was also quicker than he had planned on running that day.

Clifton Lewis

“Going into it, I just wanted to break 5:00,” said Niezgoda. “I’m not really training for a mile now, so anything under 5:00 is great.”


Niezgoda’s winning time, 4:47.38, was well under 5:00.


“I ran the 800 in college, so this is right in my wheelhouse,” said Niezgoda. “I crossed the finish line today, high-fived my wife, and said, ‘This is fun!’”

Jackson Rowe

Jim Halley followed Niezgoda across the finish line, second in 5:19.23. Taking third in 5:29.62 was Jackson Rowe, a seventh-grader on the Montford Middle School cross-country team.


Rowe wasn’t the only middle school athlete in the race. Stella Lewis, first in the women’s standings at 5:53.15, is an eighth-grader at Swift Creek. Lewis also ran the 2017 Cleveland Mile.


“My time here last year was 5:59,” said Lewis. “My fastest track time last spring was 5:58.”

Madison Sims

Clifton Lewis, a fifth-grader, was the second female finisher and fifth overall in 5:59.62. Madison Sims, a sixth-grader on the Fort Braden School cross-country team, was third in the women's standings and fourteenth overall in 6:24.19.


Nico Wienders was the first master runner in the race and fourth male finisher, coming in sixth overall in 6:00.85. Lourena Maxwell was the top woman master and seventh female finisher, eighteenth overall in 6:44.18.


76 athletes finished the 2018 Rex Cleveland Road Mile. Gulf Winds Track Club chip-timed the race.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2018 Rex Cleveland Road Mile

1. 4:47.38, Michael Niezgoda (M, 29)
2. 5:19.24, Jim Halley (M, 39)
3. 5:29.62, Jackson Rowe (M, 12)
4. 6:00.85, Nico Wienders (M, 47)
5. 6:05.55, Brian Molen (M, 42)
6. 6:08.41, Michael Kennett (M, 45)
7. 6:13.88, Cadden Maxwell (M, 12)
8. 6:18.69, Jeff Nielsen (M, 60)
9. 6:18.69, Connor Aarons (M, 12)
10. 6:20.94, Darren Whiddon (M, 46)

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2018 Rex Cleveland Road Mile

1. 5:53.15, Stella Lewis (F, 14)
2. 5:59.62, Clifton Lewis (F, 10)
3. 6:24.19, Madison Sims (F, 11)
4. 6:35.63, Maddison Green (F, 13)
5. 6:37.03, Aza Hampton (F, 12)
6. 6:44.18, Lourena Maxwell (F, 43)
7. 6:59.94, Logan Green (F, 13)
8. 7:07.67, Charlotte Sikes (F, 7)
9. 7:16.44, Loranne Ausley (F, 55)
10. 7:28.61, Chloe Molen (F, 8)

Winners of Gulf Winds Track Club's Rex Cleveland Road Mile, 2016 - 2018
Date	Men	Women	Finishers
2 November 2016	4:09.14, Ricardo Estremera	5:34.19, Amy Hines	174
5 November 2017	4:25, Charlie Johnson	5:53, Jillian Heddaeus	163
4 November 2018	4:47.38, Michael Niezgoda	5:53.15, Stella Lewis	76

Links

• Complete results of Gulf Winds Track Club's 2018 Rex Cleveland Road Mile
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQotJ0jez24Kp7C279p64_mjweKU8e7UsTl0LFcQWEyS-awnuE0Q2bEqktURIfheezuObhtdo-TjgVg/pubhtml
  
  
• More photos of Gulf Winds Track Club's 2018 Rex Cleveland Road Mile
  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10112680742502223&type=1&l=7e45b2c5c3
  
  
• 2017 story, “Johnson and Heddaeus take the plunge at the Rex Cleveland Downhill Mile”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2017/11/cleveland-mile-2017.html
  
  
• 2016 story, “Presto! Estremera and Hines prevail at the Magic Mile”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/11/cleveland-mile-2016.html
  
  
• Course map of Gulf Winds Track Club's 2017 Cleveland Magic Mile
  https://app.box.com/s/xcz07n0orcocpfucmd578spm9r1cbxpc
  
  
• Upcoming miles and marathons, magical and mundane, on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

#2369

Johnson and Heddaeus take the plunge at the Rex Cleveland Downhill Mile

Winning a one-mile race by over a hundred meters is like finishing a marathon three kilometers ahead of the runner-up. It's like lapping the field and then some in a 10,000-meter race on the track. It's like a horse winning the Kentucky Derby by more than 50 lengths. But winning a mile race by over a hundred meters is exactly what Charlie Johnson did on Sunday afternoon, 5 November 2017, in Gulf Winds Track Club's second annual Rex Cleveland Road Mile. Johnson covered the one-mile course in a winning 4:25. Jillian Heddaeus was the first woman in the race, placing eleventh overall in 5:53.

Cascades Park Bridge

Tallahassee, Florida is at the edge of the Red Hills, producing some noticeable differences in elevation. At one extreme is FAMU Way. The road used to be called Canal Street because it ran along the Saint Augustine Branch. The creek flowed through a deep ditch on the north side of the street, except during heavy rains when it flowed over the street. It was one of the lowest spots in Tallahassee. Since then Canal Street has gotten a new name and a facelift, the Saint Augustine Branch is confined to a box culvert, and the Capital Cascades Trail traces the north side of FAMU Way. It's still one of the lowest spots in Tallahassee. At another extreme is Myers Park. The Myers Park neighborhood was built on higher and better-drained land than Canal Street, covering the slopes of one of Tallahassee's hills. Capital City Country Club, the oldest golf course in town, occupies the top of that hill. It is one of the highest spots in Tallahassee.


The two spots, Myers Park and Canal Street, high and low, aren't that far apart--about a mile. Because of the difference in elevation, most of that mile is either uphill or downhill, depending on which way you're traveling. Why not run in the downhill direction and have a downhill one-mile race? The answer to that question was Gulf Winds Track Club's first Rex Cleveland Road Mile in 2016. The course not only features a net drop of a hundred feet or so, it also includes a run across the Capital Cascades pedestrian bridge. It was such a good idea that GWTC did it again in 2017.


Just three weeks after posting a 9:47:18 in Ironman Hawaii, Charlie Johnson won the 2017 Rex Cleveland Mile, running the somewhat shorter race in 4:25. Not that Johnson is a stranger to the distance; earlier in the year he won the Gulf Winds Track Club Mile at the Breakfast on the Track, racing a flat mile in 4:32. Alekx Krush was runner-up in the Cleveland Mile, running 4:45. Albert Edwards edged Tristan Cravello for third, 4:51 to 4:52. Geb Kiros was the fastest master runner in the mile, placing fifth overall in 5:02.


In the women's competition, Stella Lewis took second behind Jillian Heddaeus, placing thirteenth overall in 5:59. Thirteen-year-old Lewis is a seventh-grader on the Swift Creek Middle School cross-country team. Nine-year-old Clifton Lewis of the Panhandle Express was third in the women's standings and fourteenth overall in 5:59. Deerlake Middle School cross-country runner Leah Kiros (19th, 6:10) was the fourth female finisher, and Fort Braden School harrier Madison Sims (25th, 6:19) was the fifth.


163 athletes finished the 2017 Rex Cleveland Road Mile. Gulf Winds Track Club chip-timed the race.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2017 Cleveland Magic Mile

1. 4:25, Charlie Johnson (M, 37)
2. 4:45, Alekx Krush (M, 22)
3. 4:51, Albert Edwards (M, 24)
4. 4:52, Tristan Cravello (M, 18)
5. 5:02, Geb Kiros (M, 51)
6. 5:13, Patrick Koon (M, 12)
7. 5:15, Paul Guyas (M, 40)
8. 5:41, Erik Andersen (M, 34)
9. 5:47, Jackson Rowe (M, 11)
10. 5:50, T.J. Devlieger (M, 55)

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2017 Cleveland Magic Mile

1. 5:53, Jillian Heddaeus (F, 34)
2. 5:59, Stella Lewis (F, 13)
3. 6:00, Clifton Lewis (F, 9)
4. 6:10, Leah Kiros (F, 12)
5. 6:19, Madison Sims (F, 10)
6. 6:20, Julie Duggins (F, 34)
7. 6:21, Claramae Campbell (F, 14)
8. 7:05, Ashley Marina (F, 29)
9. 7:19, Emily Hawken (F, 11)
10. 7:21, Aza Hampton (F, 11)

Winners of Gulf Winds Track Club's Rex Cleveland Road Mile, 2016 - 2017
Date	Men	Women	Finishers
2 November 2016	4:09.14, Ricardo Estremera	5:34.19, Amy Hines	174
5 November 2017	4:25, Charlie Johnson	5:53, Jillian Heddaeus	163

Links

• Complete results of Gulf Winds Track Club's 2017 Cleveland Magic Mile at gulfwinds.org
  http://gulfwinds.org/raceresults/2017/ClevlandMile2017.html
  
  
• 2017 story, “Presto! Estremera and Hines prevail at the Magic Mile”
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/2016/11/cleveland-mile-2016.html
  
  
• Course map of Gulf Winds Track Club's 2017 Cleveland Magic Mile
  https://app.box.com/s/xcz07n0orcocpfucmd578spm9r1cbxpc
  
  
• Upcoming miles and marathons, magical and mundane, on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

#2126

Presto! Estremera and Hines prevail at the Magic Mile

"They were 2:02 at the half!" called out Bill McGuire.


McGuire was riding a lead bicycle during Gulf Winds Track Club's 2016 Rex Cleveland Magic Mile in Tallahassee, Florida. The only athlete reaching the half mile in 2:02, though, was Ricardo Estremera, who was already enjoying a sizable lead. That gap only grew during the final half mile of the race, and Estremera went on to win the inaugural event in 4:09.14. Amy Hines was the top woman in the race, placing eighth overall in 5:34.19.

Ricardo Estremera

When the course was being designed for the 2017 Tallahassee Marathon, someone noticed that a one-mile stretch of the route was almost entirely downhill, dropping from the heights near Capital City Country Club to FAMU Way, where the waters of the Saint Augustine Branch flowed through a box culvert. As a bonus, the mile included the Capital Cascades Crossing, the new pedestrian bridge across South Monroe Street.


Naturally, there had to be a race on that mile. There was an untimed mile run across the bridge on 17 October 2016, but the first timed event was the Rex Cleveland Magic Mile on Wednesday evening, 2 November 2016.


Most of the elevation loss on the course was in the first half of the race. Ricardo Estremera took advantage of that descent to reach the midpoint of the run in 2:02. His 2:07 second half wasn't exactly pedestrian, either.


"I was really comfortable," said Estremera. "I just wanted to get a workout in. Maybe if they do it again in the spring I'll break 4:00."

Amy Hines

Triathlete Armando Abaunza was runner-up in the race with a 4:32.98. Right behind Abaunza in 4:33.63, Florida State University undergrad Mark Zamani took third. A year earlier Zamani had been racing on the cross-country team at Naugutuck High in Connecticut.


Amy Hines made it across the bridge leading the women, running just ahead of Katie Sack. Hines widened that margin over the final 600 meters of the race, winning the women's division in 5:34.19. Sack was the second female finisher and eleventh overall in 5:41.49. Lincoln High cross-country runner Alyson Churchill was running sixth in the women's race at the bridge, but she moved up three places late in the race to place third in the women's standings and fourteenth overall in 5:43.66. The mile came three days before Churchill was scheduled to race in the State Cross Country Championships at Apalachee Regional Park.


Juan Ordonez was the first master runner and ninth male finisher in the mile, placing Lyssa Oberkreser was the top female master and ninth in the women's standings; she was 27th overall in 6:14.44.


174 athletes finished the race.


Top Ten Men, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2016 Cleveland Magic Mile

1. 4:09.14, Ricardo Estremera (M, 30)
2. 4:32.98, Armando Abaunza (M, 24)
3. 4:33.63, Mark Zamani (M, 18)
4. 5:04.54, Zach DeVeau (M, 29)
5. 5:07.18, Jon Nash (M, 37)
6. 5:28.19, Don Smith (M, 37)
7. 5:33.44, Jordan Cooper (M, 29)
8. 5:36.34, Jeff Shaver (M, 39)
9. 5:40.91, Juan Ordonez (M, 42)
10. 5:42.44, Tim Unger (M, 57)

Top Ten Women, Gulf Winds Track Club's 2016 Cleveland Magic Mile

1. 5:34.19, Amy Hines (F, 35)
2. 5:41.49, Katie Sack (F, 25)
3. 5:43.66, Alyson Churchill (F, 14)
4. 5:49.18, Jocelyn Chan (F, 27)
5. 5:53.19, Paige Churchill (F, 11)
6. 5:53.62, Melanie Leitman (F, 32)
7. 6:00.30, Emma Spencer (F, 35)
8. 6:14.16, Kristin Halley (F, 35)
9. 6:14.44, Lyssa Oberkreser (F, 45)
10. 6:21.83, Layla Thompson (F, 11)

Links

• Complete results of Gulf Winds Track Club's 2016 Cleveland Magic Mile at gulfwinds.org
  http://gulfwinds.org/raceresults/2016/Cleveland%20Magic%20Mile%202016.asp
  
  
• More photos of Gulf Winds Track Club's 2016 Cleveland Magic Mile
  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10108445954750823.1073742241.5215641&l=7578436c7d
  
  
• Course map of Gulf Winds Track Club's 2016 Cleveland Magic Mile
  https://app.box.com/s/xcz07n0orcocpfucmd578spm9r1cbxpc
  
  
• Upcoming miles and marathons, magical and mundane, on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

#1808

Capital Cascades Trail creeps closer to a coastal connection at the FAMU Way grand opening

"This is what an All-American city looks like," said Andrew Gillum.


The mayor of Tallahassee, Florida was speaking at the Grand Opening event for the latest segment of the FAMU Way project, extending west from Wahnish Way to Pinellas Street just south of Railroad Square. If you were at the Friday, 10 June 2016, event, you'd have to agree with him. It's an attractive stretch of road, featuring landscaped medians and borders, bike lanes, a piece of the Capital Cascades Greenway Trail, a bicycle repair station, and a playground.

Capital Cascades Trail

This was the second of three parts of the FAMU Way project, which includes segment three of the Capital Cascades Trail. It's also the first part of the project to actually extend FAMU Way. Before the project, FAMU Way had just been the renamed Canal Street--a narrow lane that ran along the Saint Augustine Branch. The Saint Augustine Branch may at one time have been an attractive stream, but in living memory the creek had become a drainage ditch, ugly, dangerous, and prone to flooding. Blueprint 2000's plan for the Capital Cascades Trail included parks, trails, and roads, but it was primarily a stormwater management project. The Saint Augustine Branch is now confined underground to a box culver, and FAMU Way runs above it.


"You're standing on top of these big concrete pipes," Autumn Calder of Blueprint 2000 told the people at the Grand Opening. "Big enough to drive a truck through."

FAMU Way

Part two of the FAMU Way project, though, extends the road west of Wahnish Way, where Canal Street had never gone. Part three will take the road even farther, west and south to Gamble Street.


Of all the aspects of FAMU Way, I'm most impressed with the trail, and I'm not the only one. At the ribbon cutting during the grand opening, the ribbon stretched across the trail, not the roadway. When the Cascades Park Bridge over South Monroe Street is completed (not before 20 July 2016), the trail along FAMU Way will connect to Cascades Park and the rest of the Capital Cascades Trail. And when the third part of the FAMU Way project takes the trail to Gamble Street, Capital Cascades Trail will link with the Saint Marks Trail.


"A four-mile linear park right in the middle of our city," said Leon County Commission Bryan Desloge.

I'm not sure if it will be quite as far as four miles, but when Capital Cascades Trail is done, you'll be able to walk, run, or bicycle on paved, multi-use trail all the way from Leon High School to Saint Marks, Florida and the shores of the Saint Marks River--more than twenty miles. That day is coming--plans for part three of the FAMU Way project are being drawn up, and the mother of all Grand Openings can't be far behind.


Links

• More photos of the 10 June 2016 FAMU Way Grand Opening
  https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10107722224556933.1073742197.5215641&l=6b909afad4
  
  
• Blueprint 2000
  http://blueprint2000.org/
  
  
• The first race on the FAMU Way extension will be on the Trouble Afoot! calendar
  https://troubleafoot.blogspot.com/search/label/calendar?max-results=1
  
  

#1715