Favorite Place in CU
Last year, I discovered that the Parkland campus and surrounding area is a great place to run and explore with friends. During the full force of the pandemic, nearly everything I enjoyed doing had been shut down or reduced to some type of remote Zoom activity. Cross Country, however, remained one consistently fun activity for me and my teammates. Being an outdoor and easy-to-socially-distance sport, cross country thrived with a somewhat normal training schedule. Since we’d enjoyed practices, after the official season ended, Edie, Jeana, and I still met regularly to run on our own. I’d never run at Parkland before since it’s about a twenty minute drive from my house, and anytime I run on my own I always start from my doorstep and then jog somewhere in my neighborhood. But after a while of meeting to run at Parkland, always in the same place, we got bored with sticking to a strict training schedule and decided to meet for runs and then explore the campus and surroundin...