I don’t know how much I really changed my pacing for this distance as opposed to the 5Ks I’ve been running, but it was nice to have a bit of a change. The most memorable part of the race for me were the folks by the side of the course, cheering us on and offering […]

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Columbia, another little Connecticut town I’d never been to, home to a race with a slightly different setup than most: the first half was fairly straight downhill, and the course then doubled back and had us running back uphill the same way, which you knew was coming all along. Not exactly fun, but I managed […]

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Everyone came along for this one, a big event on a nice day, not too far away in Guilford. My parents were visiting, and the girls ran the fun run, which was big enough to actually have two separate events: a shorter one which Lucy ran and a bigger loop which Grace did. The 5K […]

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A pretty drizzly day, and a race in a town that didn’t seem that far away on the map, but ended up taking a long time to get to, simply because of the geography and the road system around this part of the state. I wondered if anyone else was going to show up, and […]

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With everyone else away, I had the opportunity to tackle two first-time races this weekend. In Danbury, where I’d only ever been for a postcard show almost 20 years ago, I ran the Spirit of Danbury 5K. It was another small race, just over 50 runners, and I found myself running near the front in […]

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I’ve been to the movies in Waterbury, but that’s about it. It’s a big enough place that probably has a lot of races, so I was one of the only 169ers there today, for a small but very well-run race. Most races have a sort of connection between the size of the field and the […]

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