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Middlebury Trailrunner: Thinking of ski season

Posted on November 9, 2011 | Blog Category:
By Jeff Byers



I was feeling lethargic, and was finally ready for my first real run about two weeks after the marathon alluded to in my previous post.

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Middlebury Trailrunner: A Golden (Gate) run

Posted on September 28, 2011 | Blog Category:
By Jeff Byers



While Vermont runs are the focus of this blog, recent professional commitments have brought me to the little known and not particularly interesting city of……San Francisco!

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Middlebury Trailrunner: Tentative trail traipsing after the terrible tempest

Posted on September 6, 2011 | Blog Category:
By Jeff Byers



I, like pretty much everyone else, have been hearing of all the damage inflicted by the recent visit of Tropical Storm Irene. Eager to get back up to the mountains, but unsure of the current condition of the roads, I drove up Rt 125 on Saturday to take a look at my favorite trailheads.

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Middlebury Trailrunner: Geocache search on Buck Mountain

Posted on August 10, 2011 | Blog Category:
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Middlebury Trailrunner: Goshen Gallop v. 2011

Posted on July 20, 2011 | Blog Category:
By Jeff Byers



Once again, on Saturday afternoon it was time for the popular local trailrunning race, The Goshen Gallop! The good news was that this year’s relatively dry conditions would make for good footing onwhat were more typically muddy trails. The bad news was that Saturday was HOT!

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Middlebury Trailrunner: Silver Lake by the scenic route

Posted on July 13, 2011 | Blog Category:
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As my body continues to recover from injury down time in the spring, I thought it was about time to take on a longer run.

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Middlebury Trailrunner: Urban trailrunning in Berlin, Germany

Posted on June 22, 2011 | Blog Category:
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Middlebury Trailrunner: The other side of Snake Mountain

Posted on June 7, 2011 | Blog Category:
By Jeff Byers



I have been looking forward to my next post for some time now – Since March, the inevitable aches, pains, and nuisance injuries of middle age have kept me off the trails and out of my running shoes. While I am not back to 100% (or what delusionally passes for 100% at this point in my life), I was at the point where continued rest and inactivity seemed to hurt more than help. Contemplating a relatively short, easy run I remembered learning of a much less traveled trail up Snake Mountain, ascending from the gentler east side of the mountain.

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Middlebury Trailrunner: What season is it?

Posted on March 28, 2011 | Blog Category:
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Middlebury Trailrunner: The Rikert 10 km race trail

Posted on March 4, 2011 | Blog Category:
By Jeff Byers



Driving up into the mountains on Sunday, I was initially undecided whether to head into lesser used trails, or confine my late afternoon ski to more groomed terrain. Noting the piles of fresh snow everywhere, but untracked paths at all my favorite trailheads, I decided that the old racing skis I had brought would lead to a far more pleasurable ski on the well groomed trails of the Rikert Ski Touring Center at the Middlebury College Breadloaf Campus.

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