Trail Runs!

Apart from a one-time affair with a trail run in Sedona, AZ (110 degree heat with the sun beating down at 10 AM...), I have never really gone on a trail run. I suppose there aren't many opportunities to do that in Boston...

This past week I was up in Vermont on vacation with my family. We have a place at Smuggler's Notch where we have been going for the past 10 years. I've been up every year to ski in the winter, but I hadn't been up in the summertime since before I went to college!

In addition to the various hikes I did this week, I went on two trail runs. One I did at the end of a hike, and one I did just as a run.

1. I played disc golf with my dad and cousins in the morning, and realized that the cross-country ski trails that the disc golf course follows would be great to run on. I set out with no real course in mind, blasted Lady Gaga, and set out on the trails. I loved that I had no way of monitoring how far I was going, and that I had to focus more on where I was putting each foot, rather than how I felt. There were a lot of long uphills, though, which made me think that cross-country skiing must be really hard. Whatever - the long uphills meant long downhills on the way back. I raced a golfcart up the hill back to our condo...I won :D

2. After a hike, my brother and I did a mini-trail run back to our car to go pick the rest of my family up. This was way more trail-like with ups and downs and roots and rivers. It was cool. I don't think I could ONLY trail run, but I hope to move somewhere that I can mix it in with my normal city runs!