Rochester to Finger Lakes National Forest
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Under no circumstances can I be considered a morning person, as evidenced by the fact that just about the only way I run or ride early in the morning is if I'm in a race... and that includes times when I actively planned to get up early and head out on the roads or trails! So crawling out of bed at 3:45 AM to pack up and make the 2 hour drive to the Fingers Lakes National Forest near Hector was not my idea of a good time...
But there were some pluses to the early morning travel... traffic was fairly light for pretty much the whole trip, and I got to see both a very nice sunrise and lots of mist rising up out of the low-lying areas and off the various bodies of water I passed.
There were also many deer out and about... including a doe with two fauns, and four of the famous white deer behind the fence at the old Seneca Army Depot.
I made a wrong turn somewhere near the end and ended up scrambling to find race HQ... but got there in plenty of time for the start of the Finger Lakes Fifties 25k...
JMH
