Mead Orchards - Long Run

It was a rainy day for my long run today. I started out around 11:30 and headed down the back hill behind SHS and made a left on the old railroad tracks and headed towards Mahopac and Avalanche Mt. I was going pretty slow but I finally warmed up around 45 minutes when I turned around.

The footing is quite rough on this trail but I like it because it's very secluded. A doberman barked at me as I passed and continued to bark for another ten minutes. I could still here him/her for another mile.

As I headed out I passed LPLC, my mothers nursery school, and she happened to be out front at the time. Good timing I guess.

I got back to my car at 1:20, changed my shirt since it had soaked through from sweat and rain, drank some accelerade, and strapped on my fuel belt for the final 1:20. I headed toward Reis park this time and bumped into former SHS XC team captain Greg Maroni ('90). Greg works from the Parks Department. We talked for a few minutes, about the team and getting old, about him getting married and how someone destroyed the fields at the park with their car. Just a nice small-town-america conversation.

I continued out from the park toward Angle Fly Preserve, what will become the new park in town. It's a hug piece of property that I've been on one before but I had never run on the trails. I assumed there were some deer runs and rough trails. It was better than expected.

I ran on old farm roads that had become overgrown but are still quite wide. It reminded me of parts of Muscoot and Pound Ridge. There are some huge, rolling hills - up one, down, and then up again. You crash down for a while, the climb way back up and hit some trail formed when ATT buried some cable. If you make a left there you can keep climbing, then crash down a huge hill, then come back up yo the top of this hill. It was here that I saw one very large apple crate that simply said "Mead Orchards". Mead is my girlfriends last name. Sort of random.

This is where I turned around though I had a feeling I was getting close to rt 35. I'm going to google earth this place and see where the heck I was.

After that is was back to SHS, a quick trip to my parents to shower, then back to practice. Had the boys distance just do some 800m threshold runs today. I had like 25 boys and every one was a 9th or 10th grader. Young but so much potential.

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