Thanks to the Trail Monsters, who host fabulous races year round (trail running and snowshoeing), I discovered Bradbury Mountain State Park in Pownal, Maine, last summer.
I headed there this morning to meet my amazing running buddy, Luette, and squeeze in a quick hour of scrambling about in the forest and our specialty, radical thought. We decided to check out the path toward the Connector (Bradbury to Pineland), an area she hadn't checked out before, but that my good friend from X-City Running, David, and I had mapped out a few weeks ago.
The footing was quite sketchy and huge swaths of ice across the trail kept our pace pretty erratic. We did make it successfully over the river and nearly to Tryon Mountain though, and I felt pretty confident, navigation-wise. It can be a little confusing out there but the Trail Monsters (I think) have actually done a really nice job with placing a few subtle hints in key confusing areas.
We discussed Salman Rushdie, how to mathematically rate your dislike of water, sex offenders, booking agents, whether we want to participate in the GAC Fatass in two days, Unitarian Universalits, and many other Important Ultra Running Topics.
Great run. Totally don't give a hoot that it took us an hour to go 3.6miles, which is so slow that no sane person would publish it on the interwebs. BAM!
~60 minutes
~3.61 miles
Hilly trails.
Temps in the 30s - no gloves or hat! Only two long-sleeved shirts. Lovely running weather.
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