1. Start at Glade Pool parking lot
2. Right on Glade Drive for less than 1/2 mile
3. Left on Triple Crown Road for about 1/2 mile to end
4. Right on Steeplechase Drive for about 1/4 mile
5. Right on Colts Neck Road for about 150 feet [alternative start at Hunters Woods Elementary School]
6. Left on Paddock Lane for about 1/4 mile to stop sign
7. Right on Steeplechase Drive into Hunters Woods Pool parking lot
8. Left on path in pool parking lot for about 150 feet (beginning of Al Rider  short cut) [see note below]
9. Right on path for about 1/2 mile, crossing Colts Neck Road and 2 wooden  bridges, bearing left at 2 path intersections
10. Right at third path on the right about 100 yards after second wooden bridge,  continuing for about 100 yards
11. Cross under or over Steeplechase Drive (through culvert or up steps) [Water stop on path off Steeplechase Drive (very hot days only)]
12. Continue on path on other side of Steeplechase Drive for about 1/4 mile
13. Right at first major path intersection, continuing for over 1/2 mile following  stream valley
14. Cross Soapstone Drive and continue for about 1/2 mile
15. First left on path, crossing stream on bridge
16. Right on Hunting Horn for about 50 yards
17. Left on Acton for about 50 yards
18. Left on Glade Drive, returning to Glade Pool in about 1/2 mile, just after  crossing Soapstone Drive

The Al Rider short cut, adopted to avoid running along the shoulder of Reston Parkway for 1 block, makes this course about 1/10 mile shorter than any other course.

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