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Okay, so the race is called Seven Sisters and I believe, though I lost track somewhere along the way, there are actually only seven peaks we went over.  Since you have to run out and back shouldn’t  this race really be called Seven Sisters plus their twins? And nobody mentions the numerous, and I do mean numerous, quasi and false summits one must traverse to get to the end of this challenging run.  From now on I think I will call those the secret cousins that nobody wants to talk about.  Sort of the black sheep of the family. Wow, what a family! [Read more…] about My date with 7 Sisters, and a few of their cousins

Okay, how is one brief when you pack a 22.5k race, major shopping , a run up and down  the most climbed mountain in the USA and a taste of a Grand Tree 50k course into one report? I will do my best.

First, the Grand Tree series Diamond Hill 22.5K

Shellygirl and I arrived about 1 hour ahead of the start.  The Diamond Hill/ Birchwold 22k was the first step in our annual fall get-a-way.  We knew it  would be an interesting race when we went up to the Haunted House ticket booth to register. Great shirts and a race day entry fee of $20 made us feel like we got our monies worth before we even started. [Read more…] about Diamond Hill and some other fun stuff

8:00 Sunday morning.  Shellygirl and I drove up to the Killingworth traffic circle to meet Iggy and Ticket at the commuter parking lot and then head up to tackle the Breakneck 20K.  It seems Iggy had a rough night, unfortunately all work related, and decided to skip the festivities.  She still met us just to say she was not going. What a good girl!

Shortly after 8 we began the hour drive up to Bigelow State Park to tackle one of the more interesting races around. The three of us have all had some previous experience with races in this part of the world, with Shellygirl and I having run the Nipmuck and the Northen Nipmuck races and Shellygirl and Ticket running the Breakneck last year. [Read more…] about Breakneck 2008