a three hour tour
Sep. 16th, 2011 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwI'm not sure how far I ran today, but it may be as much as 15 miles, although that seems unlikely at 2hr 20 min.(running time, not including the walking at either end to warm up and cool down). I had decided to do a Revolutionary tour, running from home to Monroe Tavern to Buckman Tavern to the national park battle road trail to Hartwell Tavern, and then kept going until the trail petered out at Meriam's Corner, where I turned around and ran back to the Fiske Hill Parking lot and walked home from there. The
map of my park route is here - you can see where the in-town taverns are, and thence along Mass Ave to Wood Street & the park. Once in the park, I ran along the dashed blue route, except for a small water fountain detour where the bathroom logo is near Hartwell Tavern
http://www.nps.gov/pwr/customcf/apps/maps/showmap.cfm?alphacode=mima&parkname=Minute%20Man%20National%20Historical%20Park
The scenery in the park is very nice and the trail has a good running surface (mostly hard-packed dirt/gravel, but some boardwalks over swampy places).
I guess I'm ready for the Baystate half-marathon in Lowell in a month, but my body's not happy right now.
It probably says something that in 1775 there were three taverns in six miles or so from mid-Lexington to Lincoln, but as far as I know, only one church. It's about the same distance from First Parish in Lexington to First Parish in Concord going along Mass Ave to Lexington Street, but the trail squiggles, so it would be a bit more. First Parish in Lincoln is actually only five miles from Lexington Green, now that I've checked, of which only about 60% could be done on the trail. Is it obvious that I'm tired and spacy?
One other oddity - I guess it must have been from loudspeakers at Hanscom AF Base, but there was a fanfare of trumpets (or bugles, I suppose) and then the national anthem, sometime after 5 PM, I think (I didn't check). I suppose they were lowering the flags at that time.
map of my park route is here - you can see where the in-town taverns are, and thence along Mass Ave to Wood Street & the park. Once in the park, I ran along the dashed blue route, except for a small water fountain detour where the bathroom logo is near Hartwell Tavern
http://www.nps.gov/pwr/customcf/apps/maps/showmap.cfm?alphacode=mima&parkname=Minute%20Man%20National%20Historical%20Park
The scenery in the park is very nice and the trail has a good running surface (mostly hard-packed dirt/gravel, but some boardwalks over swampy places).
I guess I'm ready for the Baystate half-marathon in Lowell in a month, but my body's not happy right now.
It probably says something that in 1775 there were three taverns in six miles or so from mid-Lexington to Lincoln, but as far as I know, only one church. It's about the same distance from First Parish in Lexington to First Parish in Concord going along Mass Ave to Lexington Street, but the trail squiggles, so it would be a bit more. First Parish in Lincoln is actually only five miles from Lexington Green, now that I've checked, of which only about 60% could be done on the trail. Is it obvious that I'm tired and spacy?
One other oddity - I guess it must have been from loudspeakers at Hanscom AF Base, but there was a fanfare of trumpets (or bugles, I suppose) and then the national anthem, sometime after 5 PM, I think (I didn't check). I suppose they were lowering the flags at that time.
