Challenge: 90 Trails in 100 Days

Off I set on January 30th. The task seemed simple but, as with many things, implementation was more fraught than at first imagined. I tried to do longer trails or those  farther away when I had more time (like weekends) or during nice weather. One early trail, Pond Loop, at Okeeheepkee Prairie County Park, I completed on a rainy afternoon was only 0.5 miles. I decided after that to only include trails over 1 mile long. This lead me to a few times combining short trails into one “trail” or stretching a trail to it’s extreme (exploring every nook and cranny) to try to get that mile in. Trying to define a “trail” also led to some creative interpretations. Not all trails are simply laid out in the platonic idealized state. Some are based on forest service roads, some intersect and loop and figure 8. Some are out and back, retracing your steps. I had to break some long trails, like the 30+ miles of the St. Marks trail into more manageable pieces of about 16 mile chunks (8 out and 8 back). Some of my trips weren’t trails at all, but I counted them, like when I walked 6 miles home after dropping off a truck at the rental car company. I learned about new trails, which weren’t easily found, like the Capital to Coast trail still under construction, which when fully complete with be 120 miles of biking or shared use paths from Tallahassee to the Emerald coast.