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A Visit to Salem
Last weekend, my friend Lyndsay and I drove to Massachusetts for a wedding! Two of our good friends from college were getting married! The wedding venue was only 20 minutes from Salem, a place we’d both been wanting to visit. We met my sister and her husband at Gulu Gulu cafe for lunch and drinks. I got the nitro cold brew coffee–it was so good. It looks just like a stout! We only had about an hour to check out the Witch City. As you probably know, Salem is famous for the Salem Witch Trials back in 1692. Everyone remembers reading The Crucible in school, right? The building below is…
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Ragnar Trail New England
A spot opened up on my friends Ragnar Trail New England Team and I got in last minute to run last weekend! I’ve done Ragnar Relay Adirondacks a few times now so I was pretty pumped to try their trail relay. It was held in Northfield, Massachusetts, about 2 hours from Albany, at Northfield Mountain Recreation and Environment Center. The concept behind Ragnar Trail is a lot different from their regular road relay. A team consists of 8 runners and you set up a “base camp” at the location. Each runner has three trail loops to complete and each runner runs the same amount. For us it was the green…
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Steel Rail Half Marathon
Sunday morning Jordan and I drove over to Lanesborough, Massachusetts for the Steel Rail Half Marathon. I had wanted to run this race last year but didn’t get a chance to, so I signed up this year. It is advertised as being flat and fast since it’s on a paved rail trail that runs from Lanesborough to Adams, Massachusetts with views of the Berkshire Mountains. There is also a free beer from Berkshire Brewing Company waiting at the finish! [source] The race started at 9:30 so we didn’t have to get up at an ungodly hour to drive the morning of. It was about an hour drive from Troy and…
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Grocery Shopping with Bloggers
Today was awesome! The Blends (Blogger Friends) and I went on a day trip to Hadley, MA to visit their Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods for some grocery goodness! Katie, Courtney, Emily, the other Emily, Heather, Rebecca and I all piled into Cynthia’s super van. To Whole Foods we went! First stop: Whole Foods hot bar!!! I was starving by the time we got there and loaded up on good stuff. This just looks like a mixture of everything. In the mix: Fruit Salad (at the bottom) Roasted sweet potato (at the bottom) Noodles Falafel Pineapple quinoa salad Sesame Tofu (amazing) Vegan chicken salad (at the bottom, and completely amazing!)…
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Bash Bish Falls
Yesterday after my 8 mile run, I came home and my sister told me she wanted to go hiking. I was totally up for it, since I love the outdoors and I need more hiking trips in my life. She did some research and wanted to check out Bash Bish Falls in Mount Washington, Massachusetts. The hike to the falls is only a half mile out and back, so a one mile easy hike seemed totally doable, even after using up most of my energy during my earlier run. It only took about an hour to get there. It is interesting because the hike starts out in Copake Falls in…
