Monday: 0
Tuesday: 0
Wednesday: 5
Noanet Woodlands, Dover, MA. 22 degrees and snow and ice. Opted for shorts and warmed up quickly. Footing was really dicey throughout. There was actually one other trail runner out there, and we commiserated about not bring Yak-Trak. His puppy was sliding all over the place. I slid a few times, but only fell once.
Thursday: 8
Set up and then ran our club's Jingle Bell Run. A "Jingle Bell Run" is the moniker attached to the pre-holiday party group fun run. When we held the party years ago at the K of C club downtown, the run was through Wilcox Park and up to the high school and back. I think it had been about four years since our last Jingle Bell Run, and that last one was just Paul Gray and I running the streets of Pawcatuck before a party at the Pizza Place.
For this year, with our new holiday party location of the Bradford Citizens Club, we ran a 5K on trails in Bradford Preserve, using much of the Pumpkins / high school XC course. I put a few flags down, but the ground was frozen and snow covered. I did put signs with directional arrows each trail intersection, and framed each sign with a string of LED lights so you could see it before you came up to it. We got 7 runners, and while I'd like to see more, I suppose that's not bad. Good time at both the run and party afterwards. Thanks to Beth and the whole board for putting it on.
Friday: 2
Ran the same course with Jana, save the field and final dirt road section, picking up the flags and signs as we went.
Saturday: 14
13 degrees in shorts. Well, at least for the start. No, I didn't add layers, but the temps warmed up quickly and it was in the mid-20s by the time Muddy and I finished. Good run on snowy roads in Charlestown & SK.
Sunday: 8
Deep Pond / Tippecansett trails with Jonathan Short. Great time out there. All snow covered, but manageable with just 1-2" of light snow on the trails, hard-packed on the few dirt roads we ran on. Not a soul out there.
Weekly mileage: 38
Weekly synopsis: 38 miles is nothing to write home about, but it's a step in the right direction. Had a fun night at the WTAC holiday party and Jingle Bell Run, as well as the Charlestown Beach area run, but my favorite for this week had to be the snowy run at Deep Pond. Looking forward to winter!
Tuesday: 0
Wednesday: 5
Noanet Woodlands, Dover, MA. 22 degrees and snow and ice. Opted for shorts and warmed up quickly. Footing was really dicey throughout. There was actually one other trail runner out there, and we commiserated about not bring Yak-Trak. His puppy was sliding all over the place. I slid a few times, but only fell once.
Thursday: 8
Set up and then ran our club's Jingle Bell Run. A "Jingle Bell Run" is the moniker attached to the pre-holiday party group fun run. When we held the party years ago at the K of C club downtown, the run was through Wilcox Park and up to the high school and back. I think it had been about four years since our last Jingle Bell Run, and that last one was just Paul Gray and I running the streets of Pawcatuck before a party at the Pizza Place.
For this year, with our new holiday party location of the Bradford Citizens Club, we ran a 5K on trails in Bradford Preserve, using much of the Pumpkins / high school XC course. I put a few flags down, but the ground was frozen and snow covered. I did put signs with directional arrows each trail intersection, and framed each sign with a string of LED lights so you could see it before you came up to it. We got 7 runners, and while I'd like to see more, I suppose that's not bad. Good time at both the run and party afterwards. Thanks to Beth and the whole board for putting it on.
Friday: 2
Ran the same course with Jana, save the field and final dirt road section, picking up the flags and signs as we went.
Saturday: 14
13 degrees in shorts. Well, at least for the start. No, I didn't add layers, but the temps warmed up quickly and it was in the mid-20s by the time Muddy and I finished. Good run on snowy roads in Charlestown & SK.
Sunday: 8
Deep Pond / Tippecansett trails with Jonathan Short. Great time out there. All snow covered, but manageable with just 1-2" of light snow on the trails, hard-packed on the few dirt roads we ran on. Not a soul out there.
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| I'm in the upper-left quadrant of this pic; on the cool ledge in an orange shirt. (Pic by Jonathan Short, from the trail below) |
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| End of the line: after many years, this will be our final Christmas tree from Buttonwoods Farms in Griswold, CT. We learned the sad news from the owner that the remaining trees will be taken out next year to make way for expanded sunflower fields. |
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| This is the way Christmas trees are meant to be harvested: hiking through the snow to compare trees, bringing your own saw, cutting it down, and dragging it through the snow. This year's tree is a 14 footer. I don't like warm days for getting a tree. This year was perfect, temps in the high 20s, and fresh snow to traipse through and make snowballs with. (And of course Matthew is in shorts.) |
Weekly mileage: 38
Weekly synopsis: 38 miles is nothing to write home about, but it's a step in the right direction. Had a fun night at the WTAC holiday party and Jingle Bell Run, as well as the Charlestown Beach area run, but my favorite for this week had to be the snowy run at Deep Pond. Looking forward to winter!
Noooooo that sucks that Buttonwoods is opting out of the tree cutting. I'm sorry. Thanks for the props! Appreciated, very much, however unnecessary. Ooops I've been told I need to stop doing that. Merry Christmas!
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