Entries from June 2019

169 Towns #86: Essex

June 24th, 2019 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #86: Essex

It’s been a pretty slow year for races so far; I’ve only run two and it’s already the middle of June. With the girls away for the weekend, I snuck this one in, in Essex, where I’d been before for the Santa train when we first moved here. It was a nice, small town race, […]

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Tags: New Haven · Running

169 Towns #85: Ansonia

June 14th, 2019 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #85: Ansonia

2019 has been a busy year, to say the least. Beginning in March, I was traveling every few weeks, which left precious little time for weekend races. If I wasn’t out of town, I was making sure I was actually present at home, rather than taking half a weekend day out to run. I didn’t […]

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Tags: New Haven · Running

France and Austria

June 11th, 2019 · Comments Off on France and Austria

A planned trip to Vienna for a conference in early June made me wonder if this would be an opportune time for a long-awaited visit to the beaches of Normandy. The timing—on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion—seemed right, and my dad accepted my invitation to come along. We had a great time touring […]

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Tags: Travel