Shift at JMH mid-morning. 

3.1-miles at Cowles Park, cold and icy. 

Visited the Middle East Upstairs in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Andy and Evil for a triple threat of psychedelic hard rock music:

• Spirit Hotel
• Pink Mountaintops
• White Hills

We enjoyed the show with a group of about 30 fellow fans.  The sound was simply awesome.

Enjoyed taking with the each of the bands a bit when it was over, a really nice benefit from smaller venue shows and musicians.

Spirit Hotel Set:

1. Sleepvvalk
2. Moon Eyes
3. Nonentity
4. Fever Dream
5. Perfume
6. Glassine
7. Telepathy
8. Reve

Pink Mountaintops Set:

• (Unknown)
• Plastic Man, You're the Devil
• The Second Summer of Love
• Leslie
• Slaves
• I (Fuck) Mountains
• Can You Do That Dance?
• Cemetery Breeding (Black Mountain cover)
• Ambulance City

White Hills Set:

1. Oceans of Sound
2. Killing Crimson
3. Fiend
4. Numbers
5. Walking Uphill Against The Wind
6. £SD or USB
7. Clear As Day
8. In Your Room
9. Don't Be Afraid
10. Eternity

Attended the Dream Syndicate show at the Space Ballroom in Hampden, CT with DL.

Awesome show, great sound, 60 - 80 in attendance I would guess.

The Dream Syndicate:

Steve Wynn, Guitar & Vocals

Jason Victor, Guitar

Mark Walton, Bass

Dennis Duck, Drums

Unknown, Keyboards

Set 01 (Newer Material):

Where I'll Stand

Filter Me Through You

Out of My Head

Black Light

Like Mary

80 West

How Did I Find Myself Here

Glide

Set 02 (The Medicine Show in it's entirety):

Still Holding On to You

Bullet With My Name on It

Daddy's Girl

Burn

The Medicine Show

Armed With an Empty Gun

Merritville

John Coltrane Stereo Blues

Encore:

Tell Me When It's Over

That's What You Always Say

Let It Rain

Shift at JMH early

Ortho Doc early.

3.6-Northweast Park Run.

BWII Meeting evening. 

Visit with Mom in Williamstown and Pop in Adams. 

Northwest Park with K2, 4.2-miles. 

Drove out to Hoosick Falls, New York with K2 to meet my Pop for our beef pickup.

Delivered to Pop, Sister, K2 and Self.  

Roughly 7-hours on the road including packing and unpacking.

The Allman-Betts Band Concert at the Oakdale in Wallingford with DL.

Set 1:

Hot 'Lanta (The Allman Brothers Band cover)

Call It Stormy Monday but Tuesday Is Just as Bad (T‐Bone Walker cover)

Statesboro Blues (Blind Willie McTell cover) (with Jimmy Hall)

Blue Sky (The Allman Brothers Band cover)

Come and Go Blues (The Allman Brothers Band cover)

No One Left to Run With (The Allman Brothers Band cover)

Ain't Wastin' Time No More (The Allman Brothers Band cover) (with Judith Hill)

Dreams (The Allman Brothers Band cover)

Set 2:

Jessica (The Allman Brothers Band cover)

Trouble No More (Muddy Waters cover) (with Jimmy Hall) (and Robert Randolph)

Southbound (The Allman Brothers Band cover) (with Judith Hill) (and G. Love, Amanda Shires)

Can You Fool (Gregg Allman cover) (with Jimmy Hall) (and Amanda Shires)

Melissa (The Allman Brothers Band cover)

Seven Turns (The Allman Brothers Band cover)

Multi-Colored Lady (Gregg Allman cover) (with Mattie Schell)

Back Where It All Begins (The Allman Brothers Band cover)

One Way Out (Sonny Boy Williamson cover) (with Robert Randolph) (and John Fusco, G Love)

Whipping Post (The Allman Brothers Band cover) (with Amanda Shires)

Encore:

Magnolia Road

Midnight Rider (The Allman Brothers Band cover)

Allman Betts Family Revival / Robert Randolph / Amanda Shires / Judith Hill / Jimmy Hall / Cody Dickinson / Luther Dickinson / Alex Orbison / The Allman Betts Band / G. Love & Special Sauce

First Snow of the Year, began yesterday afternoon and continued into early morning. 

Early Shift at JMH.

Ortho Doc later, very mild Osteoarthritis diagnosed in left hip.

Cowles Park, 3.1-miles. 

Sodom Mountain for 4.2-miles. 

On this day in Marathon History...

  

McLean Game Refuge & Holcomb Farm Marathon

November 29th, 2019 - Granby & Simsbury, Connecticut

McLean Game Refuge & Holcomb Farm Marathon day in Granby and Simsbury, Connecticut.  

Not a lot of build-up for this, I was thinking an attempt at the Bullitt Reservation / DAR / Williamsburg Route, but two cars are necessary for that attempt and I had but one today.  I would be solo.

I got a good running start at just a little after 9:00 a.m., with two water plants plus the refill opportunity at my vehicle which was returned to around mile 8 or so.  

Rambled through McLean to the beginnings of the hills (Westledge, Pilfershire, West Mountain, Eddy, and Weed Hill) at 12.5-miles at 5.5-mph (which was an incredible pace for me).

Once the hills were finished, and I entered into Holcomb Farm Trails, I was still at 5-mph, which had me feeling really energized.  I was moving really well, running strong on everything other than the long steady climb up Westledge, the steepest portions of Eddy, and then the bushwhack type footing up Weed Hill.

Things slowed a bit through Holcomb, especially once crossing Simsbury Road.  The trail from there to the re-entry into McLean proper hasn't seen much traffic, had many leaves covering the roots, and I was beginning to tire.

I hung on to complete the 25.6-miles (gps measured, so this should be easily over 26.2) in 5:13:00.  Just dipped under 5 mph average to a 4.9.  Awesome performance on my third marathon of 2019, and 57th overall.

3.1-miles, Metacomet, Route 20 north.