May 12, Mother’s Day Run

SUNDAY: TRAILSIDE MUSEUM

This Sunday, May 12, at 8:00 a.m., you should stay home, cook breakfast for your wife, mother, or significant woman in your life, to show just how much you love her and her understanding ways—but if you decide not to, meet at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, Trailside Museum Lot, when we run an old but classic course—Trailside to Tower. This 6-mile course starts with a big wake-up climb to Fox Hill, then hits some of the smaller trails to Raven Rocks before turning north to the Fire Tower and back to start. If you want to start early, arrive at 7:00 a.m. for a four-mile loop. And for all the women in the group, I can’t think of a better way to start your day than with a run!

SATURDAY: MEADOW LOT

On Saturday, May 11, at 7:00 a.m., meet at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, Meadow Lot, when we run a new combination of trails—the Meadow Multiloop. For a truly epic adventure, start at 4:00 a.m. and run the outermost, perimeter loop. At 7:00 a.m., we’ll run the 8 mile orange loop. At 9:00 a.m., we’ll start the 6 mile green loop and so on. There are 34 total miles for 50k plus but unless you’re training for a hundred (you know who I’m talking to), you can stick with one or two loops.

Hope to see you out there this weekend.
Lee Willett

Great to see this hard-core group out in Zofnass Preserve on a rainy day. Between the roots, the water, and the rocks, this was definitely one of the more technically challenging runs to be sure.