Almost by accident this morning, I discovered a neat way to turn a run into a historic haunted run.
It started when I left my apartment, wanting to go on a relatively short run that had a bit of a challenge to it. So I decided to head south on James St S. towards the Hamilton Mountain where there's a path and set of stairs (part of the Bruce Trail).
Once I got to the top of the stairs, I thought it might be fun to keep moving along the upper edge of the escarpment and run out towards Century Manor. A week earlier, I took a short hike up there to do a Facebook Live video to help promote a new book (Haunted Hospitals) that includes a chapter on the beautiful old abandoned and boarded up building that used to be an insane asylum.
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| One of the spectacular views looking down on the city from Hamilton Mountain (ie, Niagara escarpment) on this run |
While I'm not a math whiz, I knew that the full route would end up being approximately 5K, which is a decent short run.
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| Century Manor |
So, considering the beautiful and picturesque landscape I'd gone through (not to mention the fun challenge of the hill and the stairs), I wondered it if might make a thematic run. A Haunted Run, I imagined.
So I mapped it out and created a "Haunted Runs in Hamilton: Winking Judge to Century Manor" route.
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| The Winking Judge to Century Manor & Back Route |
I figured one haunted location might not be enough, and so, since I live near my favourite bar to haunt, The Winking Judge, I figured I'd add that into the route and have a fun haunted destination at both ends of the run.
Of course, after I finished, I realized that the route is pretty close to a few other haunted locations (Augusta Mansion on the mountain and Whitehern House down in the city). But I figured incorporating them into a slightly longer route might be more fun.
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