Glastonbury River Run

This HMF race used to be one of my favorite Spring races.  Ned and I have a collection of the wooden paddles they gave out as prizes, but one year Easter fell on the same weekend and they moved the race to Saturday and kept it there.  I can't race on Saturdays during Outdoor Track and/or XC season.  I am either at morning practice or at a meet.

This year, lo and behold!  When the HMF calendar of events came out the Glastonbury River Run was back on Sunday!  It's THIS Sunday: 4/27/14, and I will once again be racing it.

Here are the reasons I like it (keeping in mind the "to each her own" message of my last blog post) :

• I like the April date.  I am just getting back to racing after my long Winter hiatus (Thanksgiving morning until St Patrick's Day).
• I like the easier terrain given my lack of racing this early in the season (see above).
• I like the out and back which lets me see where my competition is and always let me see where Ned was (he's not racing it this year).
• I love the downhill at the start since I like to go out fast.
• Remember the out and back?  I love the uphill finish - you can't have a downhill start without an uphill finish on an out and back.  I get passed by fewer people  in an uphill finish.
• I usually see some people whom I know at this one.
• I know the course.

As you can see, it doesn't take much to please me.  ;-)