Butter-and-eggs Flower

Butter-and-eggs

aka Common Toadflax

Linaire vulgaire

(Linaria vulgaris)

[lin-AR-ee-uh   vul-GAIR-iss]

Elecampane Seed Head

Elecampane

Inule aunée

(Inula helenium)

[IN-yoo-luh  hel-EE-nee-um]

Run for the Toad - 12.5 k Trail Race

 

Map of the run - note all the contour lines - 

lots of ups and downs

Pinehurst Lake - Colours are just starting to change

Frost on the windshield this morning!

Opening ceremonies for the last Toad Run to happen

12.5 / 25 / 50 km runs today

(Had some video coverage of the children's run but it is not working)

I started at the back of the pack. 

It took a couple of minutes to get to the start line.

Beautiful day for a trail run.

Only a little bit was out in the open.

Most was up and down under tree cover.

The steepest hill was just before the 11 km mark.

Tough climb!

Always nice to have encouragement.

My usual look of exhaustion

at the end of a race.

Wendy, Barb and I after the race.

Some of us had more time to recuperate than others.

Wild Cucumber & Milkweed Seed Pods

Wild Cucumber

Concombre Grimpant

(Echinocystis lobata)

[ak-in-oh-SIS-tiss   low-BAH-tuh]

Common Milkweed
Asclépiade Commune
(Asclepias syriaca)
[ass-KLE-pee-us    seer-ee-AK-uh]

Four Phots from Yesterday . . . . (and what ever happened to September?)