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 #92: Groton
June 12th, 2021 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #92: Groton
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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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169 Towns #90: West Hartford
February 20th, 2020 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #90: West Hartford
The family is out of town, and there’s apparently only one race going on in Connecticut today, so I ran it. But it is a doughnut run. At each checkpoint, runners had to pull a paper out of a bowl and follow the instructions. At the first stop, I pulled an “EAT.” It was a […]
169 Towns #89: Brooklyn
February 2nd, 2020 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #89: Brooklyn
The town of Brooklyn (an “elusive” town per the Run 169 Society’s calculations) is about as far away as you can get and still be in Connecticut. The race course here turned out to be three laps around a school parking lot, which is a little bizarre, but wasn’t as bad as it sounds. It […]
169 Towns #88: South Windsor
January 13th, 2020 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #88: South Windsor
On an unseasonably sunny day in January, Grace came along for our first race in a long time. We both felt good, and she did great, smashing her PR. The race was very well organized, with good water breaks, nice goodies, and beer and food afterward at the brewery with a cool Corsair logo. Resolution […]
169 Towns #87: Chester
July 5th, 2019 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #87: Chester
Chester, not far from Essex and from Gillette Castle, which we visited a few years back, one the eastern side of that great empty spot in the middle of Connecticut, and both northern (15) and southern (95) routes seem to get you there just as quickly. With my typical lack of advance planning, I was […]
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, […]
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 […]
169 Towns #84: Branford
November 24th, 2018 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #84: Branford
This was a really massive race. Only the first…850 registered runners got the tech tee, while the rest got a cotton shirt, if that’s an indication of the scale. Inside the middle school where registration took place, sponsors had their tables set up, and hundreds of runners were stretching and socializing, to avoid the deep […]
169 Towns #83: Union
November 12th, 2018 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #83: Union
Right up at the northern edge of the state, not far from Massachusetts, this race took place on a lovely, if slightly chilly day. We parked in a state park parking lot, about a quarter mile from the start, so I was glad to arrive in time to get registered. We started along the entrance […]
169 Towns #82: Brookfield
October 29th, 2018 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #82: Brookfield
It’s been a few weeks since my last race, with travel and sickness getting in the way. I was hoping to do the magical four races in one weekend and get to the halfway point in the list, but the nor’easter yesterday meant that it was a really unpleasant day to run, so I didn’t. […]
169 Towns #81: Salem
October 1st, 2018 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #81: Salem
This was a bit of a last-minute decision, and I arrived at the site with just a few minutes to spare. The race took place on a farm, with horses around, and a bit of a hike between parking and the start. It as mostly meadow-running, with one mile of the race a pure trail […]
169 Towns #80: Enfield
September 23rd, 2018 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #80: Enfield
> The LEGO 5K at the company’s US headquarters in Enfield is notorious for selling out very quickly, because it’s also known for having some of the best race swag around, if you’re into toys featuring DC Comics and Ninjago characters. I knew I wanted to do it once, and it finally worked out this […]
169 Towns #79: Colchester
September 21st, 2018 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #79: Colchester
A nice little race in Colchester, up the coast and inland. It featured a flat course that quickly got out into farm country, past what looked like tobacco barns, perhaps? I pressed the whole time, and came in 8th, finally managing to win my age group. I was pretty beat at the end, and the […]
169 Towns #78: Suffield
September 10th, 2018 · Comments Off on 169 Towns #78: Suffield
This race took me up north of Hartford, past the Bradley airport terminal, past the airport runways, and the air museum. All of the sudden, things got quiet, and I came into Suffield, a nice little town, and to its high school. Farm country. Hilly. The 10K runners left a half hour before on a […]