Week 2 (The End) ♦ Running the Topsfield-Wenham Rail Trail

8 seconds, the numerical representation of mild success.

Exactly one week after my initial attempt I took to the rail trail again. I can’t say that my outlook was positive, as my legs had only just regained some semblance of working order, but there I was. I suppose my disappointment is what brought me back. A time of 9:24 was not acceptable.

I was by no stretch of the imagination alone. There were walkers going both ways in singles and pairs. Dogs also enjoyed trotting about on the end of a leash. From what I could tell this stretch of crushed gravel was gaining popularity.

When I finished I stood around sucking air. I checked my stopwatch to find I’d done eight seconds better than last time. Staring back I knew I had a long way to go, both back to my car and in improving my time. So I started putting one foot in front of the other.

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Week 1 (The Beginning) ♦ Running the Topsfield-Wenham Rail Trail

By the time I laced up my running shoes, the new trail on the old rail bed along 97 had been taunting me for some time. I hadn’t run since my highly unsuccessful stint as a high school track athlete but I wanted to undertake this challenge. Having been active in exercise for the past few years, I thought it wouldn’t be the agony that I so vividly remembered. In many ways I was wrong.

On a map, I judged the distance between the trail’s two intersections of 97 to be about half a mile long. Thus the plan was to run the length and back. A bit less than halfway through it became readily apparent that not only had I incorrectly judged the distance but simply going one way was going to be about a mile and a quarter.

Upon this realization my legs quickly began to beg me to halt this irrational activity and my stomach made every attempt to pause my progress. But I never stopped, finishing with a time of 9:24 and a long walk back.

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