I only base this off my personal experience and experience of other young women I have run with, but the way I run is usually like this: if I am going on a "jog"/run, I will make a playlist beforehand and put it on and keep running and won't stop (unless stretching is necessary, but usually at the beginning). However, when I'm running intervals for speed, I stop and check my phone between every single one. Which may be something to think about. May just be common in my training group, though. Was she training for anything?
Plus, if you're running intervals, someone could be observing you without you even noticing them and you're conveniently in the same spot for your workout, making you an easier target versus a "moving, unpredictable" target. You can go faster with more impact on grass if you have some sort of running leg injury. The run over there from home can potentially be a "warm-up jog" where you stretch after and then proceed to do your workout. I guess only her father would know how she worked out, though. Maybe he will release some helpful info to the public soon because there hasn't been much of anything.
Also, I think this perp was far from a "mastermind." He was very likely familiar with the park. But everyone notices cameras and whatnot if they come to a place often enough. Same with trees. You'd probably be able to recall a tree and it's easy to do so if you're familiar. But I somehow don't buy that he walked all around every area outside of his normal interests of being at the park to plan his getaway. I think the outskirts are where he either got extremely lucky or is caught on footage they haven't zero-ed in on yet. Understandably so, if the latter, because no physical description / no witnesses have come forward.
I know it is far fetched and I absolutely didn't believe they were linked in the beginning.
