I really love running on the trails this time of year. All
the leaves have fallen and are blanketing the brown & dirty ground. The sun
is low in the sky but shines brightly through the leafless forest canopy. It’s
crisp and cold but the snow has yet to arrive. Cross country season is over but
snowshoe season is still a month away. It’s like trail running’s “curtain call”
before the snow and ice of winter make the trails impassable (save for
snowshoes) over the next few months.
I’m particularly fortunate this time of year to have a
wonderful system of trails right outside my daytime door. A patchwork of
Conservation Land, Wildlife Refuges, and Town Forests just across
the street from where I work in Carlisle, MA. The trails system I run on stretches
along the west side of the Concord River from Route 225 in the South up to
Treble Cove Road in the North and includes land parcels named Foss Farm, Great
Meadows and The Greenough Land.
