169 Towns #98: New Fairfield

November 21st, 2021 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #98: New Fairfield

It’s been good to get back into the swing of running this fall, and I wanted to keep it up with my sixth race since the summer. This was a bit of an outlier, with no online registration, or maybe you had to get an account with the town’s parks and rec department? An atypical […]

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169 Towns #97: Thompson

November 14th, 2021 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #97: Thompson

Grace has been enthusiastic about running this fall, so when a somewhat elusive town I hadn’t run in yet came up, I invited her to come on the 90 minute drive, about as far away as you could get from Woodbridge without leaving Connecticut. I’m not sure I knew it was a full trail race […]

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169 Towns #96: Kent

October 31st, 2021 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #96: Kent

I’d been wanting to do the Kent Pumpkin Run ever since we visited Kent our first or second fall in Connecticut, when we happened to be there and saw the runners come by. Grace and I signed up for it, and only afterward did I find out that it was actually a 5 mile race, […]

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169 Towns #95: Canton

October 23rd, 2021 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #95: Canton

Grace and I drove to Canton early this morning, and had fun running the 5K in the village of Collinsville, and looking at the variety of costumes worn by fellow runners. She kept up a good pace and has hit her tenth CT town. Collinsville Trick or Trot | 5K | 10/23/21 | 30:22 | […]

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169 Towns #94: Ridgefield

September 12th, 2021 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #94: Ridgefield

I left just past six this morning for Ridgefield, home of the Ridgefield Playhouse (long heard of, never visited), and a trail race, which I hadn’t run in some time. The race, Where the Pavement Ends, is part of the Trail Mix series along with the Leatherman’s Loop, which I ran a few times before […]

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169 Towns #93: Haddam

September 5th, 2021 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #93: Haddam

Grace and I set out for this 9am 5K at about 8, but when we got to Haddam, we realized that the Haddam Neck Fair is not actually in Haddam, but across the river in East Hampton. And the nearest bridge wasn’t very close, meaning it took us another 25 minutes to get there. We […]

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169 Towns #92: Groton

June 12th, 2021 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #92: Groton

I’m still not sure about the Groton vs. Groton (Town of) distinction, but as the summer race season ramps up, I took a look at the calendar yesterday to see what I might be able to do the next day. There was only one race was scheduled for a town I’d yet to run in […]

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169 Towns #91: Rocky Hill

May 22nd, 2021 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #91: Rocky Hill

I’m not sure when road races started happening again, but at a certain point, after getting vaccinated and as other things began to return to normal, I checked in on the old reliable CT race calendar, and returned to the old familiar practice of checking upcoming races with the list of towns I’ve yet to […]

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