Well, I was off this morning to get one more run in before the NY Marathon and decided to go after the Lums Pond- Swamp Forest Trail. It would be a nice soft run to take my mind of the shuffle-jog-shuffle of 42000 runners on Sunday. Plus, I have run next to nothing this week. So off I went. Nothing big. I have run this 7.5 mile trail plenty of times. It is technical but not to bad. Well, the first thing I noticed was that it was now fall and I had not memorized every turn and root. No matter that is what trail shoes are for. I was running along a good clip really enjoying myself when about a mile out I turned and saw that there was no longer any trail. The pond was now in my way. I was baffled. I realized that it had rained 3 days every week for the past two weeks. And I mean heavy rains. I wasn’t sure about going through at that point because it was pretty deep so I just found a new way around. Well, I figured I would see a little more of this but it shouldn’t be that bad. Check out a map of the trails at Lums Pond. Swamp Forest is the Yellow one.
Well, at one point I made a turn and 100m into it I could not find the trail, it was so flooded. I had an alternative trail and turned to that. Eventually, got to some higher ground and things were good for about a mile then I had no choice and just went through it. Now I can say I ran through Lums Pond.
Filed under: DeerHoof's Running Thoughts, Running | Tagged: flooding, Running, trails
