Piedmont Park

Time: 75:02
Distance: 10+ miles

Active Oval in Atlanta's Piedmont Park

Started out at Brooke's condo with Meagan and jumped on the Freedom Trail with Piedmont Park as our destination. The Peachtree Road Race 10k used to end in the park but since the city has been experiencing a drought, city officials decided that 50,000 people on the grass wouldn't be ideal for keeping things green. Our route took us through the Virginia-Highlands neighborhood and down to the park where we discovered the "Active Oval." The AO was a crushed gravel loop that we estimated to being 1000m long. It would be an ideal setting to run 1k repeats or tempo. Meagan will have no excuses for not running 3:00 at the Marine Corps Marathon.

After running a couple loops on the oval we headed back up to the Highlands and finished up with an anal 90 seconds of running around near Brooke's place. Though Piedmont Park is not as big as Central or Golden Gate Park, it has some good loops and is pretty. I enjoyed watching the "bootcamp" participants being forced to run up and down the stone steps all throughout the park.