Progress - 3/29

Making progress, mostly within a few miles of home as I begin to add distance to my runs. Completed paths are in green; private roads are colored purple.

One problem that has appeared is that of literally retracing my steps. When I head south, it's about a mile from my house to Middle Rd and even longer down to Howland, which means that I'm 'wasting' 2+ miles on any southerly run without adding to my goal. Heading out to Division is definitely shorter but doesn't help with the southern coverage as I'd just be duplicating the Rt 2 or Shippeetown miles (and risking my life every time I cross the Rt 95 and Rt 4 on/off-ramps... That's definitely adding to the difficulty of achieving this goal. If things get tough, I might get creative to workaround this limitation - unfortunately, with the Rt 4 boundary directly to my west and it essentially being interstate-like and not pedestrian friendly, I can't take any shortcuts in that direction...

Not bad progress so far - I think I'm going to continue to concentrate on the NE and knock that area out while building up my distance, and then venture over to the west.