Day 10: W Angola to OHIO...We made it!!! 158 and change!

Sitting back last night chatting about our journey we learned that we managed to bend the ear of friend to come out and run this final leg with us. Kearney's pal John.  You may remember John from a week ago when he Melissa and Amy came to run with us last Sunday.  John is just as nutty as us....he drove out with his lovely wife to stay the night and headed out with us in the am.  This was just fine by us all as we each had a running buddy today....and fresh legs to keep us motivated...thanks John!

We dropped off our cars at the finish line aka the OHIO state line and all the way back we just couldn't believe that the time passed and we have all hung in there.  We noted some rolling hills and note worthy signs on the way back indicating how much farther we had left to go.

As we set out this morning it was clear that Milligan and John were going to run a bit together so Kearney hung back with me as my legs were feeling stiff and not warmed up yet.  Today's weather was chiller than it had been...but dry.  Still no sign of snow.  No complaints with us.   As we trudged down Rt 20 we headed into downtown Angola we could see signs of the university presence.  The circle drive was pretty as well-decorated for holidays.  You can see all the cute old building reminiscent of Chesterton or Valpo.

  As we headed out of downtown we knew that we had 9.5 long miles to go.  These did not go without excitement however.  Kearney picked up pace to run with John and Milligan hung back with me.  We all were pushing pace a bit and felt decent despite the long mileage we have traveled.  Unfortunately we happened across several various roadkill fatalities. These ranged from a rather smushed fox to goose to several deer.  Coming across the first deer Milligan failed to tell me it was coming and I looked right at it as he commented it was freshly killed.  I yelp at the sight of the poor thing still frothing at the mouth.... I..the vegetarian am scarred.  I did tort back at Milligan asking if he wanted to stop and pick it up on the way back.  HA!  As we pressed further we saw an over pass.  Now we had passed the last highway road in Indiana...Rt 1...so we knew we were getting close.  Around the over pass Milligan and I caught up with Kearney and John.  We trekked that last half mile or so together to the official- your in OHIO sign.  We found the permanent state line marker and took a few photos before heading our way back home.  

Its still settling in my mind the distance we traveled...but driving back on the toll road gave me some perspective...and some good memories as we passed familiar road names.