Highland Green Running

It's been a snowy and icy January so far, so there has been a lot of Highland Green running! It's boring as hell but it's a safe and accessible place to run post-snowstorms, and for the past two weeks all of my running has pretty much been confined to Highland Green. Aie, I really need to get out more! 😜

Monday the 5th was back to work and school and a regular schedule for us all after a few holiday weeks with a lot going on. Tuesday, I got up early and then just read my book on the couch instead of running or working 🤪 Seemed a good idea with an inch of snow on the ground from overnight, so decided to just run in the afternoon around Highland Green. Warmish and overcast. (6.0 miles)

Thursday was another afternoon Highland Green run. Lovely and warm enough for no gloves and mostly just wet pavement with only a few ice slicks. (6.0 miles)

Friday, I waited until it wasn’t an ice slick out there, and got some work and errands done early… then was just squeezing it in before heading down to Sam’s swim meet in Cape Elizabeth 🤪😂🤷‍♀️ (6.0 miles)

Along with a lot of Highland Green running, most of my running these first few weeks of January have been afternoon miles. Kept with the theme on Saturday after getting some work, errands and home stuff done in the morning... Balmy with a lot of puddles. Also the back road is not ideal. (8.0 miles)

Sunday, I strayed from a staight-up Highland Green route and went out along the Connector path and up to Homeplace, but back through Highland Green. A mixed bag of wet pavement, slick icy connector path and snowy, icy slippery backroad. Overcast and damp. (10.0 miles)

This past week, Ryan was away from Monday through Thursday in Utah working and skiing. Looks lovely, doesn't it? 

Meanwhile, more snow and ice and Highland Green running over here. And of course Sam got a cold. Oh the glamour! 😂 

Tuesday was yet another afternoon Highland Green run. Nice out. (6.0 miles)

Work continues to be quite busy, and overwhelmed me again on Wednesday so an after dinner headlamp walk it was. Dark and rainy. (2.0 miles)

And then since I didn't have the option to do an afternoon run on Thursday and I'd already squanded two days of running in the week, I was out the door in the foggy, misty, rainy darkness at 5:30 am on Thursday running through Highland Green. (6.0 miles)

Then after work it was over to Bowdoin for Sam's high school swim meet. Despite being sick, she did swam very solid, and someone dug up a photo of her and three of her teammates from an LRSC meet when she must have been 7 or 8 years old. So cute, and I love that they all still swim together both at the Y and on the high school team! 💗

Friday I had a massage with Lauren at 8:30 am and I knew I should get in my run before hand, so I headed out as the sky was lightening at 6:50 am, and decided to wander around with my spikes on. Conditions ok but a bit too much hard ice for my liking. Cold, overcast and windy, with no real sunrise. (6.0 miles)

More snow Friday night, and enough that the spikes were on the whole way during my afternoon Saturday run. Nothing was plowed down to pavement so it didn’t matter. Very flat light and just enough ice under the few inches of snow that it was a bit sketchy, but pretty out there! Ran on the snowy roads, the cart paths and down into the Cathance. (8.3 miles)

Wrapped up the week with yet another Highland Green afternoon run on Sunday, and made a commitment to NOT run all the miles through there next week! 😂😂 (10.0 miles)