Visit Mom in Williamstown and Pop in Adams. 

Drove past the Three Sisters Sanctuary in Goshen on my return home.

Tree ID at Sunrise Park was canceled (without any warning unfortunately).

K2 and I made the most of it and traveled over to the Southwick Wildlife Management Area  for a 1-mile walk and talk.

And a Blast from my Marathon Past...

 

  1st Mount Greylock Centennial Marathon

June 21st, 1998 - Adams, Massachusetts

My Pop and I completed the 1st Greylock Centennial Marathon in Adams, Massachusetts.  

Our time was 6:55:38.  This was a very difficult course, with 5 lengthy climbs.

This was my 21st marathon completed, and my dad's first.

Bike early, cool but very windy.

24.4-Miles, to Robinson State Park.

Visit to Healing Ways Acupuncture for help with the right achilles and left big toe.

Extremely Hot, low 90's.

Bike 21.2-Miles. 

Bike 14.1-Miles early.

Training with CWOps and AE all afternoon.

Full day with CWOps at JMH and FEx. 

Visit to Healing Ways Acupuncture for help with the right achilles and left big toe.

"High Points" along trails during May 2025... 

• Diamond Ledge Cliff, Diamond Ledges Land Trust & Holcomb Farm, Granby, CT 
• Broad Hill, McLean Game Refuge, Simsbury/Granby, CT

Visit with Mom in Williamstown and Pop in Adams.

Excellent bike ride of 20.9-miles.

Fireworks at night with DLV.

Hike w/DL early, 1.0-miles.

Hike Takoa Area, 3.7-miles.

Bike afternoon, 8.3-miles.

What Played in Ed's Head -- 

Music listened to for the time-period May 1st through May 31, 2025:

Full day of work with CWOps at JMH, FEx, DOT E & W. 

10.5-mile bike early.

Training with CWOps and AE entire afternoon. 

Rock and Roll Heaven...

Brian Wilson passed at age 82.

He was an American musician, songwriter, singer and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys and received widespread recognition as one of the most innovative and significant musical figures of his era.

His work was distinguished for its high production values, complex harmonies and orchestrations, vocal layering, and introspective or ingenuous themes. 

He was also known for his versatile head voice and falsetto.

This has been a Great Marathon Day in my History! 

Two completed marathons on this day in my past!

In 2001, I completed my 25th marathon at Nipmuck, in 4:27:17.  

This was a 35th place, and my 5th completed Nipmuck.

Then, on this day in 2012, Wuzzam, Tippi and I completed a Tunxis Marathon in 6:26:10.  

This was my 47th Marathon, and Tippi's 16th.

Return visit to Healing Ways Acupuncture for some extra help with the right achilles.

Bike 16.3-miles to Still Brook Park in Feeding Hills, and back.

Rock and Roll Heaven Update...

Sly Stone, Record Producer, Radio Disc Jockey and musician supreme, passed at age 82.

Sly and the Family Stone blended elements of funk, soul, psychedelic rock, gospel, and R&B, became a pivotal influence on subsequent American popular music. 

Their core line-up was led by singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, and included Stone's siblings Freddie Stone (guitar, vocals) and Rose Stone (keyboard, vocals) alongside Cynthia Robinson (trumpet, vocals), Greg Errico (drums), Jerry Martini (saxophone), and Larry Graham (bass, vocals). 

The band was the first major American rock group to have a racially integrated, mixed-gender lineup.

Sly and the Family Stone discography:

• A Whole New Thing (1967)
• Dance to the Music (1968)
• Life (1968)
• Stand! (1969)
• There's a Riot Goin' On (1971)
• Fresh (1973)
• Small Talk (1974)
• Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I'm Back (1976)
• Back on the Right Track (1979)
• Ain't but the One Way (1982)

Presentation with the Granby Land Trust at Dismal Brook Preserve:  

Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast, presented by author Michael Wojtech.

Completed a bit of hiking today!

1.4-miles in Dismal, followed by an additional 2.0-miles in Seth and Lucy Holcomb Preserve.

3.4-miles total.