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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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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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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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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 […]

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