A. www.mapmyrun.com to map out, get distances, and describe running routes. Each starts and ends at the Finger Lakes Running Company. I'm listing a few runs that I've plotted already, names with associated weblinks:

1. Cass Park Loop (5.5 miles): http://www.mapmyrun.com/view_run.php?r=b7c31e57292089427b5700ed256afdd6
Loops out and back on trendy West State Street. Joins the paved recreation path paralleling the inlet across from the boat docks  and Farmer's Market, and circles the marina and point at Cass Park on the south shore of Lake Cayuga.

2. Beebe Lake Loop (4.75 miles): http://www.mapmyrun.com/view_run.php?r=3aa67d197dc70446f36ddbd2fd537d7d
Joining a beautiful stoned path lining Cascadilla Creek ascends to the heart of Cornell's Collegetown. From Collegetown follows a cinder path to Cornell's back entrance, across north campus to Beebe Lake. Crossing a stone arched footbridge traces the north shore of Beebe Lake before venturing back down campus to center Ithaca.

3. Buttermilk Loop (9.0 miles): http://www.mapmyrun.com/view_run.php?r=10ec77fb512899574dd4287ae81171ca
Cuts along the foot of south hill behind Ithaca's big box retail section to Buttermilk Falls State Park. Ascending on clean dirt trail  over cascading Buttermilk Creek and around drying Treman Lake of Upper Buttermilk, the route takes you through Ithaca  College's campus high on South Hill, out a little-used cut-through to the cinder recreation path and back to downtown Ithaca.

4. King Cinders Loop (10.5 miles): http://www.mapmyrun.com/view_run.php?r=d29086e1236e44097e5f4eb2238d9d3e
A loop for those seeking to get the work on in a hurry....Running across the Ithaca Commons will be the last flat this loop will see for the next 4.5 miles as it travels up the hills of Danby Road, King Road, and Ridgecrest before topping out high above Ithaca College.

5. Giles 79 Loop (2.6 miles): http://www.mapmyrun.com/view_run.php?r=c2869b120d934ee28d3411cd8a13aae5
A short loop from the store running across the commons, through a stretch of South Hill homes, across a bridge with access to  the 6 mile wildflower preserve, up a short hill before turning to descend back to the commons and heart of Ithaca.

6. Six Mile Gorge Loop (8 miles): http://www.mapmyrun.com/view_run.php?r=88ebdc73abec27aede121f0171d5842d
A staple of our time at Ithaca College, the Six Mile Gorge loop offers the runner quality wood and water time just outside of   center Ithaca. This loop begins with a trip through the trails of the Six Mile Wildflower Preserve. You will run parallel to Six Mile Creek for several miles passing two main dams. The first is a common public swimming and cliff jumping area for locals. A  second pool at the base of a gorge spillway offers swimmers/adventurers a natural rock slide that runs against the creekright  wall. After a "half-pipe" hill section on Burns Road, runners will be treated to 3 miles of the beautiful wooded cinder/recreation  path back toward Ithaca.

7. Stewart Park Ithaca Falls Loop ( 4.8 miles):  http://www.mapmyrun.com/view_run.php?r=2e3636ebfb2686bca1f41859e1ced9a4
This loop, starting from the Finger Lakes Running Company will take you through downtown's Fall Creek Neighborhood, through  a Bird Conservatory area to Stewart Park. Once in the park loop around along the south shore of Lake Cayuga, wrapping around  Ithaca High School and past Ithaca Falls. Take a moment if able to take a swim in the pool at the base of Ithaca Falls before  resuming the run. Taking a right at the infamous "Creeker" (Fall Creek Tavern), any left in the next few blocks will take you back through Fall Creek and toward the commons.