2nd Return to the Suffield 5km Course.

Suffield 5km Course #2 for 2022.

This time, cool and a mostly dry, grass a bit high; 25:20. 

Times for my Race Against Myself at this location:

• #2, 2022 - 25:20 (May 7th, 2022)
• #1, 2022 - 27:24 (April 8th, 2022)

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• #7, 2021 - 23:50 (October 30th, 2021)

• #6, 2021 - 24:34 (September 17th, 2021)

• #5, 2021 - 25:10 (September 3rd, 2021)

• #4, 2021 - 25:29 (August 27th, 2021)

• #3, 2021 - 26:48 (August 20th, 2021)

• #2, 2021 - 25:20 (July 9th, 2021)

• #1, 2021 - 27:00 (June 28th, 2021)

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• #2, 2019 - 27:46 (July 9th, 2019)

• #1, 2019 - 28:04 (July 2nd, 2019)

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Granville, connecting a few more "unknowns" for 6.3-miles.

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Weekly Weigh In = 219.4

"High Points" along trails during April 2022... 

• East Sweetman Mountain, Granville, MA
• Metacomet Ridge, Cowles Park, East Granby, CT
• The Pinnacle, Penwood State Park, Bloomfield, CT
• Sweetman Mountain, Granville, MA
• Steep Bank Brook (Bumpus Version), Windsor Jambs State Forest, Windsor, MA
• West Suffield Mountain, Metacomet Trail, Suffield, CT

Black Lizard / Vintage Crime #11 for 2022...

"It's My Funeral", the third Daniel Port novel, written by Peter Rabe, published 1957.

Cover Images

What Played in Ed's Head -- 

Music listened to for the time-period April 1st through April 30th, 2022:

Fifth visit for acupuncture at Healing Ways Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine.

5.9-miles along some "new" trails (for me) in Granville. 

Rambled and Explored a bit in Granville, completing 10.9-miles.

Up to the Metacomet Ridge from Cowles, 3.5-miles.

(weekly weigh-in at 219.4)

First Guitar Lesson with BPM. 

Spent the morning presenting to the Connecticut Water Environment Association, CWPAA and CAWPCA 2022 Management Leadership Course.

On this day in 2006, I completed a Metacomet Marathon with my dog Tippi;  it was just us.  

By 2005, most of my running turned toward exploring and mapping routes through the forest of Western Massachusetts and North Central Connecticut, with an emphasis on picking out ways to connect big tracks of land, and turn them into runs of marathon length.

Tips taking a look toward the quarry in West Suffield, Connecticut.

This run began in Sunrise Park, Suffeld, Connecticut and flowed south through Penwood State Forest in Bloomfield and Simsbury, Connecticut.  

We spent 6:27:00 completing a little over 28-miles or so.  

This was my 31st marathon completed, and Tippi's 7th.
 

Hueblin Tower in the distance; we would be turning around just prior to it.

Notes:  A great day;  started out 50 degrees at the 9:45 A.M. start time.  I believe it reached 70 degrees during the day, with most of it in the mid to upper 60’s.  Sunny and blue sky entire time, with a bit of a nice breeze every once and a while.

Tippi taking a look back off a ledge.

Much of the route is a ridge trail, with weather beaten trees still standing.

Tippi at the finish, ready to eat and rest.

  

 

Music 2022...

Effort #06,  "Conflicted", 2022.

Playing around...

Black Lizard / Vintage Crime #10 for 2022...

"The Out is Death", the second Daniel Port novel (after 1956's Dig My Grave Deep), written by Peter Rabe, published 1957.

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2022 Unsupported Trail Race Fall Challenge #1

Penwood State Park 10k (6.4-miles)

I have run this loop many times over the past 30 years, but I am not sure I have a great many times recorded.  This is ok with me, as I am just getting back to "normal" running after close to 5-months away.

I have it in my head that under 90-minutes is respectable for this loop, and I can recall a few finishes in the 95-minute range.  Today went much better than expected, with a GPS timed 1:22 and change for 6.4-miles, so I will call it 1:23:00 (I don't read seconds on my gps).

Course from Wintonbury, out on the Blue Blazed Metacomet (New England Trail) to the main parking area, and back on the Yellow Trail.

I Visited Noble View in Russell, Massachusetts today, a property of the Appalachian Mountain Club (and which I had never visited before for some unknown reason).

Managed a wonderful 8-miles with some exploring around the Little River.