The Polk Street run taken by normal runners is out and back along the green line.  This is a flat, pleasant run on paved roads that offers the opportunity to score a Double Flaunt.  Flaunts were invented by the originators of this run, Team DeMoura.  If you run topless down Main Street (pink arrow) and are recognized by someone, you have scored a Single Flaunt.  If you turn at Pleasant Place and come back the same way and are recognized on your second passage along Main Street, you score a Double Flaunt, which is the Holy Grail for Team DeMoura members. There are several alternative routes. The 4-mile run is an out-and-back along the green route, with a turnaround point at the 35 mph speed limit sign on Polk just beyond Public Avenue. The normal five-mile turnaround (green route) is at Polk and Pleasant Place. Runners who are rather strange can go out on the green route but return on the red route.  The distance is the same, but involves running up the Quail Run Street megahill, dodging semi-trailer trucks on Highway 95, and running along muddy alleys full of stray cats and garbage cans.  The route is complex, so normal runners will require guidance from other strange runners. Vital statistics are displayed below for the "normal" route and the "strange" route.    Type of Runner Return Route    Distance   (miles)      Total Ascent   (feet)     Megahills Mud Puddles Alley Cats     Normal    Same out and back 5.0 150 0 1 0     "Strange"         via Quail Run       4.9         225         1         26        11

Photos in sequence, left to right, along the North Polk Run.     (Click on each photo to see enlarged version.)

Flaunt Area North on Main North on North Polk Nearing Quail Run turn; Polk Strange continues on Polk Normal return:  South on North Polk Right off Polk onto Morton Left off Morton onto Adams West on Sixth St. Bike Path; Polk Strange rejoins South on Campus Mall Memorial Gym Take a shower, please! Photos courtesy of Alan Place     Below are the photos for the alternate return route along "Polk Strange", after turning left into the Quail Run development after the "Nearing Quail Run turn" picture above. This route rejoins the above photo sequence at "West on Sixth St. Bike Path". Quail Run megahill Left off Pintail onto 95 South on 95 South along alley Alley jumps Strange alley machinery South on North Almon Photos courtesy of Alan Place Click here to go to Palouse Road Runners Homepage