TenaCity to WindyCity

                                    TenaCity to WindyCity Runyak September 18, 2020 Flint to Chicago DAY 51 ALL PHOTOS AND IMAGES WILL ENLARGE WHEN CLICKED Where am I?  A big change in driving to continue T2W. Since DAY 3 I'd traveled north when continuing. Today's best offering by Google Maps was to  head south to Flint take I-69 to Lansing then I-69 to Muskegon.  Upon driving 160 miles I arrived at Claybanks Twp Park in the dark at 5:30 am, using the phone flashlight to see, I climbed down 70ft of step to check out the wave action on the lake. In the pitch black it looked promising. I looked upward at the stars, it was beautiful, triple the amount of stars that could be seen anywhere back in Genesee Co.  From Claybanks Twp Park I began a 11 mile run to Golden Twp Park where I'd meet sidekick Kate to begin paddling. She met me 6 miles into the run, picked me up and we drove the the launch site.  I would finish the run later, for it was more important to get get into the wa

                               TenaCity to WindyCity Runyak September 11, 2020 Flint to Chicago DAY 50 ALL PHOTOS AND IMAGES WILL ENLARGE WHEN CLICKED First of all, I will have to explain that the total run for DAY 50 was 20.7 miles BUT 5.1 miles were run 7 days earlier. (see map) DAY 49. Between DAYs 49 and 50 I made a special trip just for running. I had to make up for DAY 49 by running a 6.2 mile leg and knowing DAY 50 would be over 20 miles, I chopped some of that off by doing a 5.1 mile beach run from Mears State Park Beach to Summit Twp Beach. It may sound like I was cheating at Runyaking, but I make up the rules so it's okay. The day I came back to just run I would not tried putting a kayak into Lake Michigan. Check out the next two video clips. One fron the run day, the other on DAY 50 5 miles was added to the run leg just to get around this lake, Pentwater. Won't be the last time, in the future are more big inland lakes with no bridges over the outlets, Lake Macatawa i