Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Neyagawa Route

After my last blog I had a lot of people ask where that run course was. It is located in Oakville off Neyagawa Blvd and River Glen Blvd. If you are coming from Milton head East on Dundas and turn south on Neyagawa. I park at the baseball diamonds. It is a great run bike transition workout also. I have a planned out bike route too. I head north on Neyagawa to Burnamthorpe and then across to 6th line. I take 6th line to Lower base, down the hill and then stick lower base until Bronte (25) then on the way back head north on 5th line and across derry! I then head south on 6th line and do a double loop. For transition work it is a great workout with right turns the whole way. Also if you do it twice you get close to 2 hours. Now for the run course.

Park in the Baseball Parking lots and make your way across the street. The path is a smooth path, which is always groomed! Wicked to get strong. Once you enter the trail make a left and start running. Stick to the outside which is the West Bank trial. If you end up on the road you are out of the trail. You then run down the hill and make you way along the inner trail. There are 2 major hills, which are great if you are doing a race like St.Croix or Placid. Get the hurt! You then make your way through Lions Valley and onto the East bank trial. You hit another hill...if you make it to the stairs you forgot to go up the run hill. It is about a km once you go over the bridge in Lions Valley. After that run up the little beast hill and make a right onto the East bank trial! That is exactly 8km! Wicked for negative split work or a transition run. Too many people run flat and need to hurt!

Here is a map http://trekortreat.ca/oakvilleroute.pdf (This is a great 10km race that goes through the trails at night!)

Enjoy

2 comments:

Aaron said...

That's a nice hilly little course - I run it all the time, since it's only a ten-minute warmup jog from the front door. There's a fence at the north end (under the bridge at the old Lions Valley park) where they've cut off access. The trail is also very loose gravel down there alongside the stream, but that's only if you miss the climb back up the hill.

Tyler Lord said...

Hey Aaron, they just re paved the whole trail...it is fantastic!