Wednesday, August 9, 2006
NY/NJ Trail Conference Long Path site
Good things:
- the view from the escarpment trail in Thacher Park
- the view from Roemer's High Point, above Thacher on the Long Path
- running through and along fields of golden and purple flowers
- running along a quiet country road on a sunny day
- running on a section of trail I'd never run before
- the cool boulders and outcroppings along the Hop Field trails at Thacher
- running all the way up Paint Mine Rd nonstop and most of the way up the hill in the field
- frogs in the huge puddles on the logging road near Roemer's High Point
Not so good things:
- "running" (OK, hiking!) through meadows of waist-high undergrowth, unable to see what's underfoot
- thrashed quads for the last 30-40 minutes, either due to too much riding the day before or not enough electrolyte intake during the run
- leaving the gorgeous landscape of Thacher to return to the city of Albany!
-JMH
