Equine Hunting on the Quinimay Trail

Where are the horses?  Ultrarunning advice is not to do anything new on race day, so I set out to run with horses on the Quinimay Trail.  Well, I wanted to get in a long run, and kind of do my own empathy thing, so when MRSAJC asked to run 12 miles on the Quinimay with one of her friends and then go get breakfast at Perk on Main, I said I could accompany her for the 12, but I wanted to do 24 for my long run.  I don’t know if it is a “true” empathy run if it doesn’t start at the same time of the run you are empathizing, but I was out there until 12:40 from 7:15.  Plenty of empathizing time in the woods.  I was thinking about, and we were talking about you guys.  All good, don’t worry.

Sorry to Suds and Snobody, but your 6 AM start was not in the cards, plus we were starting at the southern end.  I did see your cars in the Route 9 lot when we dropprd off MRSAJC’s friends car so they could go get breakfast after 12.  I was going to miss my banana and Nutella crepes.  But again after logging 36 miles on the Quinimay in the last couple of weeks, alas I have not seen one horse.  Where are they training for their Vermont races????  I saw plenty of evidence in the form of hoof prints and horse poo, but no horses or riders.  I actually believe I got close when I heard people talking close ahead, and could see fresh hoof prints, well I’m not sure how fresh the hoof prints were, but the poo was fresh.  My nose could tell that.  Sadie and I even smelled horses on the breeze, and she was acting like something was ahead, but we never caught up.  Anyway, it was a beautiful day for a run and I was thinking of you all.  I was also empathetic for the crepes.

Maps of the Quinimay Trail: http://www.lcrvhc.org/mapproject.htm