EStreeters Varsity run through the magnificent trails in Concord and Lincoln around Walden Pond - a first for the running crew even after all these years of logging the trailrunning miles.
Seriously - what took us so long?
It took Scott to mastermind the route to bring us onto unexplored pathways, and a picture perfect New England fall Sunday did not disappoint.
Though truth be told, when he told us to meet him at Mount Misery, I was a tad worried.
No Blood on the Tracks, just hardcore runners
For The Walking Dead fans among us, thankfully, we didn't come across any signs for Terminus. Because you know, those who arrive, survive
Time to take a historic run through history on the Walden Pond Conservation Land
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live to sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden
After that build-up, Andrew was expecting more from the literary giant's homestead
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Thoreau
"We need the tonic of wildness....At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that landand sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature." - Thoreau
"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth." - Thoreau
"Norman. Hurry up. The loons! The loons!
- Ethel Thayer, On Golden Pond
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." - Thoreau
Because sometimes, pondside trails and hilly pathways around meadows and streams aren't enough, so you need to add a stair workout in.
Because you never know what waits you at the top. Andrew keenly spotted this gem and claimed his prize with pride
In the end, Mount Misery was the victim of bad branding. It's a glacially-carved hill less than 300 feet above sea level, but its' environs cover more than 200 acres next to the Sudbury River.
Get out and explore these trails at your earlier convenience.
You'll Thoreau-ly enjoy them.
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment." - Thoreau
"There's ice at the finish line." - Scott Spence
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