the Way of the Turtle

Season of the SnōShū, weekend #11
Spruce Hill Climb (cancelled)
Sunday, March 12, 2006

The Curse of the No SnōShū struck one last time, ending the Season of the SnōShū not with a bang but with a whimper. Word came down Friday night that conditions wouldn't allow the race, and that the WMAC snowshoe series had come to a close.

Made it to four races in the Season of the SnōShū... two were snowshoe races and two ended up being trail races instead. Still, two snowshoe races and multiple snowshoe training runs isn't bad... considering I'd never been on snowshoes before December 2005! Now I have a great pair of Dion's, and I'm looking forward to next season, when hopefully we'll have lots of snow and I'll get to go out for some distance runs in some great places in the Berkshires.

And now it's time to get training for the Nipmuck Trail Marathon!

JMH

Next up: the Northern Nipmuck 16 mile trail race, in mid-April!

2006 racing totals
snowshoe – 3 miles, 59.5 min
running – 7.1 miles, 1 hr 17 min
riding - 12.4 miles, 1 hr 1 min