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Week 10 – May the road rise up to meet you

Friday, March 14th, 2008

As we approach St Patrick’s Day and all things Irish, I’ve quoted a traditional Irish blessing for the theme of this week’s run. The run is a recovery run after reaching for 20 miles last week. In the spirit of  ‘the road rise up’ we’ll be passing through Breakheart again where some of the best rising roads around reside. And if you know the next line of this poem, you’ll know its something we could have used on the last two long runs.

The water stops are all planned. Walt will be manning stop 1,2, and 3. Luckily for him they are all in the same spot. Liz will be giving us a bonus stop on the Saugus side of Breakheart. Thanks in advance Walt and Liz.

Many people in our group will be heading down to New Bedford to run a Half on Sunday. Good Luck to all of you, all your hard work will be rewarded. Others in our group will be running local road races to celebrate the coming of Spring or the wearing of the green, may the Luck of the Irish be with you. This leads me to my next question, who’ll be at Brueggers at 8AM besides me? Roll Call time!

Week 10 – Water Stops

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

This week we can get away with one water stop, although a second would make things easier. Our full route gets divided up as follows:

Start at Brueggers
Main St & Nahant, Mile 3, water stop 1
Loop Lake Quanapowitt
Main St & Nahant, Mile 7, water stop 2
Nahant to Breakheart, loop, return Nahant
Main St & Nahant, Mile 13 miles, water stop 3
Back to Brueggers

So one water stop with lots of supplies can cover the run. A second stop in the Saugus parking lot of Breakheart would help though, as that leg is about 6 miles long without that stop.

Let’s see who’s available and then we’ll figure out the rest of the plan.
Jim