"Return to Fit" at YMCA through LED, #05.

Otis, Tolland & Sandisfield area for some snowmobile trail exploration and running for 4.5-miles.

Whale Week: Celebrating the Wonder of Whales

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Bridge-Main-Wisteria Loop for 3.4-miles. 

Old News Department...  this day in 2020...

Nipmuck - Natchaug Marathon - February 8th, 2020
Ashford, Union,  & Eastford, CT

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I met up with Andy Hillbilliage early to attempt a Nipmuck / Natchaug Marathon.  The Wuzzam was planning to meet up with us to ramble through the last 9 or 10-miles.

The route is fairly easy:

• Boston Hollow Road, Ashford, north on Nipmuck Trail to Bigelow Hollow (~8-miles).
• Return via the same route, opposite direction (~8-miles).
• South from Boston Hollow along the Nipmuck Trail to the turn onto the Natchaug Trail just prior to Ladies Room Rock, down to Moon Road (~4.5-miles).
• And then return along the same sections (~4.5-miles).

What isn't easy is the trail really rolls up and down.  A lot.  5760' of ascent and descent for the full gps measured 24.6-miles.  It was also somewhat cold (around 22-degrees at the start), but that didn't stop Hillbilliage from going with shorts and a short-sleeve top for the last 9+ miles (where it might have gotten to 32-degrees or so, outside the Hemlock forest).

We completed what we wanted, pretty much averaging 4.1 mph the entire day.  At 2-miles we were at 4.3 mph, at 8 the same, at 16 the same, at 20.5 we dropped to 4.2 mph, which we almost maintained to the end.  Very steady rolling.

Completed in 6:01:00, which I felt pretty good about.  It was really awesome of Wuzzam to meet up with us to help with the company, that I (we) really appreciated, as Andy and I were getting a bit tired by the last sections.  Great day, outstanding mileage builder!

This was my 58th completed marathon all-time.

Visit Mom and Pop.

Landowner, Slant of Light, Outro at the Drake, Amherst (with J. Evil).

McLean Game Refuge for 3.3-miles. 

"Return to Fit" at YMCA through LED, #04.

Bridge-Main-Wisteria Loop for 3.4-miles. 

"Return to Fit" at YMCA through LED, #03.

Cowles Park for 3-miles. 

What Played in Ed's Head -- 

Music listened to for the time-period January 1 through January 31, 2026:

On this day in 1998...

the 4th Annual Moby Dick Marathons were held over Greylock. I completed my 19th marathon in 6:19:40, with Johnny Bandit.  It was the second time I wore snowshoes for the 28-mile adventure.  It would be the last time I would snowshoe this distance!

Overlooking Ragged Mountain

Memorial Tower

Visit with Mom and Pop.

The Famous Hairpin Turn!

"Return to Fit" at YMCA through LED, #02.

Hilltown Data for Walks and Hikes!

Plainfield