Another busy end to the year meant that it’s been four months since I’ve had a chance to run a race. Niantic is not technically a town, so the race was officially in East Lyme, and it was the biggest I’ve run in many years, with more than 800 entrants on this chilly, breezy day […]

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We all got out of the house early this morning and stopped at a coffee shop for breakfast for the girls before arriving in East Windsor. I’d been getting used to finishing in the top 20 or 30 of these small races, but this one was comparatively huge, with more than 200 runners. The town’s […]

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Another last minute decision: I registered for the race at 6:55 a.m., and then drove up to Thomaston. Somehow, they already had a labeled manila envelope with my shirt, bib, and everything in it. It was a beautiful fall day, crisp and cold, and the small size of the race (44 runners) made my third […]

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Grace and I headed out early on a Sunday, for an 8 a.m. 5K in Montville (or was it Oakdale?). This was a real rarity: a free race, especially ambitious with a 5K, a 10K an hour later, and then a color run. It was a fine course, with a few hills, and race day […]

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A three-day weekend at the beginning of the school year made the perfect opportunity for Lucy’s first 5K. We all went to Winchester to support her, and though it was a tough slog, with lots of walking, up and down the many hills on the course, she finished, and in under 45:00. I managed a […]

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It had been a few months since I’d run a race, with trips to Bologna and the family road trip in Canada, and as I’ve been running almost every day lately, I wanted to try another race. I headed to Avon, where I’d not been before, and gave it my best shot in this small […]

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Grace and I started the day with a nice 5K run through the trails of A.W. Stanley Park in New Britain, along with cadets from the New Britain Police Academy (most of whom we beat, actually). Grace was a little tired—we’re getting to the point where she’s going to bed later, yet these races are […]

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Seizing the momentum from last weekend, Grace and I headed out again, this time to Middletown for the Grad Dash at the community college. Grace did great, persisting despite a cramp, and came in under 30 minutes for the first time in awhile. Though she insisted on noting that it was because she was the […]

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I had hoped to get to number 100 by the end of the year, but it wasn’t to be, between travel, holidays, fewer towns to choose from, and so on. Nearly six months had gone by, but I was glad to get back out on the road with Grace today. We headed to Washington Depot […]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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