sylkai
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- May 4, 2018
That is a fantastic train ride. The husband and I did it last November over Thanksgiving. Depending on how fast your mile pace is and how early the train is running, there are a few stops where they will be in station for a smoke break type situation and you could run up and down the platform.I had a lot of time to think about this list on my 10-miler today in the rain.
I was realizing that I found out about it just before our annual big hiking trip - next weekend my DH and I leave for Glacier National Park. So of course, that means I can run while I'm there and put Montana on my list.
An additional adventure for this trip is that we are flying from Maryland to Chicago, and then we are taking the scenic Amtrak train from Chicago to Glacier. (Woot!) That means that I could potentially run in the Chicago airport or train station - we have a 4-hour layover - and put Illinois on my list, AND if I run on the train, I could knock off Minnesota and North Dakota, too! (I already have Wisconsin.) I see no problem trying to do this, but I suspect that my husband and/or the train conductors might find a problem with it.
And now I've been pondering what the GPS track of someone running up and down the corridors of a moving train would look like. The Wikipedia website for the Empire Builder train says that the average speed is 50 mph, so my running at about 5 mph would be a 10% variation on that. But it would probably register on Garmin as my fastest run ever! Too bad I really couldn't run perpendicular to the train's direction and make a sine curve with the GPS track!
I doubt I'll actually do the train running, but as I said, it was amusing to think about during my long run today. Can anyone suggest a good place to run in Chicago Midway?
We have one long train ride left (Chicago to LA) and it's on the calendar for the weekend after the marathon.