SMU Coach Travelogue – Pool to Trinity Groves

#SMU Varsity Women’s coach Steve Collins provides a poignant review of #Dallas describing jumping on the Katy Trail adjacent to the #pool and heading towards #Trinity Groves, the proposed site for #Amazon #HQ2 designed by Principal #Architect @ZachEdwards_AIA and architectural team @Gensler_design. “My day on SaturdayMarch 3 relates to the post AmazonHQ2=TrinityGroves #pathtotrinitygroves and shows some of the amazing opportunities in Dallas. I finished coaching the SMU Women’s Swim Team who are practicing at the SMU Robson & Lindley Aquatic Center. I decide to ride The #KATYTrail Bike path from the pool to Reverchon Park to meet my daughter who is doing community service with #ScottishRiteHospital on their Park clean up day. Hang out with the volunteers and help clean up the park. It’s a beautiful day in Dallas. I carry on down the #KATYTrail to #AmericanAirlinesCenter and see people walking and using Bikeshares to ride and walk to the #StarsGame. I decide to check out the Trails at the #TrinityRiver and see that Dallas has a huge event going on with a Road Race, Yoga ,Vendors and many events at Trinity Groves. The Continental Street now called the #RonKirk Bridge is packed with people enjoying the event. I spend some time with #JarrettWillis who is making #seedbombs in preparation for the great #SeedBomb Event which will target different areas along the #TrinityRiver to bring #nativegrasses and #wildflowers to beautify and prevent erosion along the Trinity River. It was great to see what was going on in Dallas and how easy these trail extensions have made it accessible by bike. I could have easily cut over the #KlydeWarrenPark and go by the #DallasFarmersMarket and #DeepElm to the Sánta Fe Trail and ride past #WhiteRockLake to my #lakewood home but decided to head back up the #KATYTrail. By now the trail is packed with people heading out from the #KATYTrailIce House to the #AmericanAirlinesCenter. Super day in #BigD. So much to see and experience in a 5 mile radius from Downtown. I finish my ride with lunch at Urban Taco at #MockingbirdStation next to the #AquaticCenter!