Fall morning

3 miles in 40 minutes. Not bad considering this is our hills workout. It was a cloudy morning and both Long Sought for Pond and the Keyes pond were reflecting pretty fall colors. Here's Keyes pond. I am glad we're running or we'd completely miss this.






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Short runs week

This week has been short runs week - 10/6, Tuesday and 10/8, Thursday 3 miles each one side of Nabnasset lake.

Millstone Hill

Ran down and up from Haystack to the road - 2.8 miles, 40 minutes.


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6 mile walk

Due to unfavorable health outlook, we walked 6 miles around the Nabnasset lake in 2 hrs.

Brook-side trail biking

This afternoon two other people from my lab and I went for trail biking by a brook near Haystack. Two of us from the group had done this before. The fall colors are now starting to show. Couldn't resist taking some pictures along the way.





Here's the map - notice Haystack (my lab) on the lower right corner (just above Terms of Use)


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13.6 miles on Rail Trail

Well, we did it today, a little more than the half marathon distance. We did the entire Bruce Freeman trail end to end back and forth. We started at the Chelmsford center, went to the Lowell end that is 1.8 miles one way. I liked that those 3.6 miles felt like nothing more than a warm-up. Our pace still wasn't great - 15 minutes/mile, but that should improve. The last 2 miles were the hardest. I wasn't tired, but my legs were. I couldn't feel them by the end. But it feels good to have done the whole distance.



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The hills are...

...alive with the colors of foliage! It was the hill workout day. I used my downhill running to chase the falling leafs. So fun :)



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