Meet at Phipps for a run up the hills behind Oakland to the Water Tower and the Robert E. Williams Memorial Park.
Run to the run starts at 6:40AM at the Coffee Tree.
It was Tom's least favorite kind of run - leaderless and meandering fraught with indecision - but it was a beautiful morning to be wandering through Allegheny Cemetery, even if most of it was uphill. The cemetery is big enough to rank right up there with our city parks - it is 300 acres big ( Frick is 561, Schenley is 456 and Riverview is 287). Many of the trees are in bloom and starting to leaf out, the grass is bright green and the vistas from those big hills are pastoral and soothing. We did manage to stumble into an area that was clearly undeveloped (part of the 100 acres that is still waiting for occupants) - Johnathan called it the wilderness version of the cemetery run. Roye and I did another small loop after everyone left looking for Stephen Foster's grave - we did not find it but did see Lillian Russell's mausoleum that was near another with a very interesting Egyptian theme. Apparently there are also 16 previous mayors of Pittsburgh buried there as well.
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