Tippi and I completed a circuit around the Peoples State Forest Loop.  There is a race held on most of this course each year since the early 2000's.  The first time I ran the race was 2005, and my Pop ran it that year also.

Tips above the Falls

Tippi at the Top of Falls

Looking off the peak

Farmington River flowing through the Valley

View off the Ledge

Tippi nearing the summit

Looking southwest off the summit

View of the Farmington, northwest

Massive split boulders at the height of land

Nipmuck Trail Marathon

June 7th, 2009 - Ashford, Connecticut

Completed my 7th Nipmuck Marathon today, as well as my 42nd overall marathon.

I finished in a respectable 4:37:03, good for 19th place overall.

McLean Game Refuge & Holcomb Farm Marathon

May 30th, 2009 - Granby & Simsbury, Connecticut

Wuzzam and I completed a McClean Reservation Marathon in roughly five hours.   

This was my 41st marathon completed.  I recall it being a fairly easy day for us.

Tippi and I explored the "Dry Hill Loop" of Conway State Forest...

Tips & I rambled around People's State Forest in Barkhamstead, CT along Elliot Bronson Trail.

Tippi and I explored the downtown Conway's snowmobile trails...

Drove to Bridgeport and Harbor Yard Arena for the Music as a Weapon IV Tour with a young JC.

The Line-Up as I recall was four bands, but the online concert history list eight.  All I can  think is that there may have been an afternoon matinee with some of the opening bands?

What we viewed and heard was:

• Killswitch Engage
• Crooked X
• Lacuna Coil
• Disturbed

The crowd was young and rowdy, with a lot of alcohol and drug usage causing issues.

I still remember that there was a local Church Group working the concession stand, and the woman was in disbelief when I ordered a couple of coca cola.  She exclaimed "You don't want alcohol?"

People were vomiting and laying passed out throughout the stands.  It was something.

The other four bands listed on the concert guide history site were:

• Suicide Silence
• Bury Your Dead
• Chimaira
• Spineshank

Tippi and I explored the Pine Hill area towards downtown Conway. 

Tippi and I explored the Mt Owens to Poland Gate area snowmobile trails of Conway...

 Attended the Brian Jonestown Massacre / Astroid #4 concert at Pearl Street in Northampton.

Williamsburg Snowmobile Trails!

Williamsburg Snowmobile Trails with Tippi!

2nd Annual Sunset 5km Snowshoe Race
March 21st, 2009  -  Catamount Ski Area  -  Hillsdale, NY

Wrap up to the 2009 season, I managed 6th of 31 racers.

Williamsburg Snowmobile Trails with my trail buddy Tippi....

Northfield Mountain 4.0-Mile Snowshoe Race
3rd Annual Massachusetts State Championship

March 14th, 2009 - Northfield,  Massachusetts

Good friend DD organized again, and I managed an 10th of 46 racers.