{"id":785,"date":"2021-08-20T17:20:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T21:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/?p=785"},"modified":"2021-08-23T13:21:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T17:21:37","slug":"training-week-8-half-way-to-hartford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/2021\/08\/training-week-8-half-way-to-hartford\/","title":{"rendered":"Training week 8: half-way to Hartford!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A good week with not much to report. Fourteen miles is a bit of a psychological hurdle, but it went really well and I was very happy with the pace! I’m glad I take photos even when they don’t come out well, because they are memory triggers: the friendly black cat with a white mustache I met at the beginning of the long run, the yellow lab in a window which looked like a cutout until it moved, the fake owl side-by-side with a real squirrel, and a couple of weathervanes (typical rooster but perched on a mini dovecote, owl that looked like terracotta but was presumably fresh copper). In order to cover the south edge of Easthampton—I’m up to 49.13%!—I ran up Mountain Road\/141 to Southampton Street in Holyoke, which I’ve driven many times. It’s always different on foot! From there I took a side street I’d never noticed (Line Road), which turned into a different Mountain Road, a steep dirt road across the very edge of Southampton with a few surprisingly huge houses (reminded me of back roads in Susquehanna County).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weekday photos (Northampton)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n