Before we moved to upstate New York, my husband Brett and
I had really never spent much time up this direction. Our new favorite thing is now exploring the
area every chance we get. We’re still
trying to keep our 2010 New Year’s Resolution of staying in shape by doing a 5K
every month, so for our November race we thought we’d kill two birds with one
stone and cross Connecticut off our “to-do” visit list.
We drove 2.5 hours to Washington Depot, CT to run in the Turkey
Trot in Steep Rock 5K and marked our first every journey into the Constitution
State. Turns out, CT is such a cute
little state…literally! The state is
only 70 miles wide and 110 miles long and is home to only 3.5 million
people. Most of what we saw was
beautiful and rural and it seemed as though the state only had one cell phone
tower because we didn’t have coverage for the majority of our time there.
The falling temperatures haven’t been real motivating for
us to get out and run, so we pretty much fell out of bed and showed up for this
face. Thankfully, there were no ski
mountains involved! A fast, easy course
didn’t help us keep up with the pack of runners, but the scenery was the best
we’ve seen so far. We ran this 5K right
alongside the river in the Steep Rock Preserve and honestly, I was glad I’m not
a fast runner…I would have hated to have missed that view! (I’m probably the only runner who carries a camera with them too…)
We only have one more race to do to fulfill our
resolution for this year…and then that’ll be another thing to mark off the
Bucket List!
