Little Bunny Fufu
Change is brewing in the state forest trail system right across the street from our road. The DCR is logging the Sudbury State Forest (which is almost completely located in Hudson) to thin out the trees and make some money. They say they are going to preserve the trails and clear them at the end of each day but from the running Christy and I have done on them it is very difficult pass over all the garbage they leave behind. Hopefully they will do a final sweep when they are all done and get rid of all the branches and small timber they can not sell. I doubt it but it doesn’t hurt to hope. You can see the timber proposal here.
http://www.mass.gov/dcr/stewardship/forestry/manage/docs/Forest%20Product/Northeast/Sudbury%20Goodale.pdf
It was a busy Easter weekend with the family which left little time to write about my running the past few days. Friday night I did my last track workout before the marathon. It is probably also my last track workout at Reggie Lewis ever. It took 55 minutes to get into the track because of the fun time I had at the Mass Pike/128 interchange. When I got the track, it said my ID had run out on the 5th and they gave me a whole bunch of crap about not being allowed in and I have to pay 90 bucks for another quarter. Anyway, I am sick of driving into Boston and working out on an over-crowded track. I may change my tune next winter but I was feed up on Friday. Here is the Data from the watch.
1600: 4:56 (1:26)
1600: 4:56 (1:29)
1600: 4:53 (1:38)
800: 2:32 (1:11)
400: 1:10
Felt really easy and I could have done more but was nervous about a little twinge I felt in my shin. I don’t want to ruin any gains made in the past two weeks. Especially after glancing at the weather report just now, 38 to 48 degrees and overcast. Wouldn’t that be nice?
Saturday was 59 minutes in the ARWR trails solo at a leisurely pace.
Sunday, last run of any distance. 12.5 in 1:24:26 through Memorial Forest C loop. A lot of dog walkers were out. I ran about .25 miles with a collie named Maggie. I knew the dogs because there was a women chasing after us yelling at the top of her lungs “MAGGIE, MAGGIE!!” I have a no stopping policy for people walking their dog off-leash because if you can’t control where your dog goes, you really should not be walking your dog with out a leash. 99% of the time the dog turns back after 10 seconds. This time the dog followed me for about 90 seconds. Down the trail, over the oxbow, up the hill, I was impressed. Then the lassie wannabe turn around and headed back to the women I could no longer hear shouting but was probably a little bit nervous about her dogs location and how far she would have to chase it into the woods. She wasn’t in the best shape so another long walk was probably not on here Easter agenda.
Today was a lunchtime nobscott loop in very windy conditions. The trails dried out nicely over the windy weekend and there was hardly any mud to be seen.
That’s all I got.