After running my first Mt. Washington Road Race on the 21st, I thought I’d try to keep things going and sign up for a local 5K later on in the month. I’d never been to Derby, though it’s not far from Woodbridge, and we were free that weekend, so it fit the bill. It was […]
Entries from June 2015
169 Towns #3, Derby
June 30th, 2015 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #3, Derby
169 Towns #2, Cheshire
June 26th, 2015 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #2, Cheshire
I remember this race mostly because it was the occasion of Grace’s first fun run. She ran with me around the track at Cheshire High School, mostly recovered from her traumatic run-in with the costumed mascot, and got a giant t-shirt to remember it by. For my part, it was an uneventful, fairly sluggish 5K, […]
169 Towns #1, New Haven
June 24th, 2015 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #1, New Haven
Preparing for the start of the Mt. Washington Road Race this weekend, I saw a number of runners with nice-looking shirts featuring the outline of the state of Connecticut, silhouettes of runners, and the words “RUN 169 TOWNS, DEBTICONN.ORG” I looked up the address when I got home, and discovered wonderfully ramshackle website for the […]
Mt. Washington, take 2
June 20th, 2015 · Comments Off on Mt. Washington, take 2
Through some miracle of email magic and friends in high places, Dad managed to get us both into the Mt. Washington Road Race this year, despite us both having failed in the increasingly competitive lottery entry system. I had been running all winter, thanks to our treadmill, but my workouts had been shorter, and less […]
