The Running Trail

The running trail here starts at the far end of CLUville, down by the flightline where SOCCE has their compound.  (Special Operations Command Combat Element, pronounced sock-see.  These are the guys behind heavy concertina wire with Predator drones and top secret sat-comm dishes.  When you ask them what their mission is they just wave their hand in front of your face and say, "These are not the drones you're looking for.")  The trail goes off along the fence line and is lit by standard light towers. It's 1.8 miles to where it dead ends and you turn back.  I'm still turning around at the one mile mark but will run out to 1.5 later this week.  As far as a trail goes it's in pretty good shape; compacted gravel and dirt about ten feet wide with a few water coolers along the way.  There is nothing much to see out there except some brush and a tall chain link fence.  Sometimes in the morning, if you're lucky, you get to run through rotor wash from an MV-22 or grimace as a C-130 powers up and taxis off the pad right next to you. This is life at the tip of the spear.