I've lived in New Hampshire for nearly 20 years now, and in that time I've seen exactly one moose in the state. 

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I had no idea, when I moved into my place at Gibbet Hill in Groton, that every summer weekend I would be surrounded by so many women wearing Easter egg taffeta.

 

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For the record, Evan finished ahead of me. Official results show otherwise, but we were there. We know. 

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It struck me that it would be useful to put together a bunch of links for online trail maps all in one place. 

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I had never heard of the Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway before today, though it includes two of my favorite snowboard/ski mountains.

 

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Mount Monadnock is the second-most climbed mountain in the world, I'm told, and I've been doing my part, if not lately.

 

 

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I've always known that in general it's good to be flexible as well as strong, and stretching is important. I didn't know that in the short term, stretching can make a body a whole lot weaker.

 

 

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Tonight was opening night for the Mine Falls Park trail race series.

 

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I was shocked to read of the tragic death of Arielle Newman, a Staten Island, NYC, teenage track star. She died of methyl salicylate poisoning; In short, she overdosed on Ben Gay (or some such similar product).  

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I first met Michelle about a month before she ran Nipmuck for the second time.  

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Having been forced by injury to sit out the Nipmuck Marathon this weekend, I finally got around to paddling the upper reaches of Salmon Brook. 

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Given the choice, I’d pick trails over pavement every time. I live in the city, though, and sometimes I just don’t have time to drive someplace to go for a run.

 

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