Sunday, June 19, 2005
Greylock trail race results
Greylock Trail race info
Today the membership of the AMAI Trailrunning Turtles doubled! I managed to convince Miss Linda Moller that she really wanted to run the Greylock 3 mile trail race (and despite her protests about being out of shape and so on, she did really well!)
We met bright and early (well... early...) and headed over to Adams and Greylock Glen. A fairly scenic drive, other than the stretch through Pittsfield. Checked in, went through the usual pre-race stuff (dressing, strapping up the various injured bits, and standing in line at the outhouse.) After a brief pre-race meeting (which was mostly for the crazy folks doing the 14 miler up and over and around the mountain) - off we went!
photo courtesy of www.albanyrunningexchange.org
Since all the runners started at the same time, we hit a bottleneck pretty quickly... but then the 2 groups split and we headed off on the "easier" run. Easy for Greylock, at least. The trail was fairly technical and had a lot of climbing in the first half - found myself sucking wind a LOT. We got to run along a stream and through a small covered bridge, which was kind of neat. Finally we emerged from the woods and had a little over a mile of pretty much non-stop downhill to the finish -- if only I'd had some juice left in my legs at that point...
I made it in 32:34, Miss Moller finished in 37:26 (pretty darn good for someone who hasn't been running trails!) We snagged some munchies and some stuff to drink and then - time to head back home!
It was cool having company for the race - I'll probably have a tough time convincing her to come over for it next year, since I think I'll shoot for the 14 miler. Either way, it should be a good time - the folks from the Western Massachusetts Athletic Club are a great group to run races with!
JMH
