Trail Running
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Northface Endurance Challenge – Bear Mountain Half Marathon
I survived the NorthFace Endurance Half, and lived to tell the tale. Hurray! Chris and I drove down to Fort Montgomery, NY where we were staying (right near West Point) on Saturday afternoon. The drive was about 2 hours and pretty uneventful, as was our hotel. But the hotel was only 10 minutes from Bear Mountain, where the race was. We parked in a large parking lot and then got a shuttle to the starting line/finish festival area. It was a bit chilly, but the sun was out and it was a very nice day! Both of us were nervous because we didn’t get as much hill and trail training…
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Dodge the Deer 5K
I think I mentioned before that I wanted 2014 to be the year of new races. Meaning, I wanted to run local races that I have never run before! So far these have been: The Runnin’ of the Green Parker School Trail 5K and now the Dodge the Deer 5K And one of the main reasons I ran the last two 5Ks was to ramp up my trail running because of the trail half I have in TWO WEEKS. Anyway, Dodge the Deer was held at Schodack Island State Park, a place I’ve actually never been despite it being pretty close. It was only about a 30 minute drive from…
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Running Weekend
I figured I’d pop in here for a minute to update you all on my running! This weekend was a good one for that. Saturday morning was the Robert Parker School 5K trail race. A new-to-me place to run trails, I had to sign up to prepare for my upcoming trail half marathon. Thankfully, the trails were in much better condition than last week at the Pine Bush. Even though they were muddy, they were definitely runnable. Chris’ friends were in town, so he managed to convince them to come run the race with me! It was a blast. I managed to finish the 5K (two loops on the trails)…
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A Sad Trail Run
So, I have a trail half marathon in a little over a month in the Catskills. I’d really like to start training on the trails for this race. However, we have one little problem. The condition of our local trails are ice/snow/mud at the moment. Last night I went to the Pine Bush trail at Blueberry Hill to check the status and see if they were run-able. Well, some of them were. I managed to slowly jog the snowy/ice portions. Some Yaxtrax would have been nice, but I don’t own any, so I had to make do with my trail runners. At least the weather was nice! 2.3 miles at…
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Scenes from Florida
Greetings from Florida! I’m on my annual Florida vacation at my parents, spending a week relaxing down here before the semester starts next week. So far I’ve gone to the beach (on Saturday!) and went for a short trail run through one of the scrub sanctuaries near my parents’. Enjoy the photos! Trail run at Micco Scrub Sanctuary Whale skull at Barrier Island Sanctuary Storm clouds rolling in. Boardwalk through the dunes. Jungle-like foliage on a trail run.
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