the Way of the Turtle

7.5 Mile Run in the Albany Pine Bush
Sunday, March 29, 2009

Legs were definitely feeling the effects of yesterday's race... tired, tight, and sore. So I headed over to the Pine Bush for a slow easy run on a softer surface. It was tough going at first but started to feel decent after a couple of miles... and then the last few were tough going, possibly because I was enjoying being out in the woods and ran a little farther than I'd initially planned.

In the last year or so a lot of the trees in the Great Dune section of the Pine Bush have been marked with paint... an enormous number in one section with blue paint, and today I saw a number of trees marked with orange paint. Hopefully this isn't an indication that they'll be cutting all those trees down as part of the ongoing "habitat restoration" (many of them seem to be pines) but then again, if the trees aren't being marked for cutting, what's going on? All I know for sure is it detracts from the view and is definite case for concern.

JMH