Sunday Run

I considered changing this weeks run to Saturday for two reasons: (1) To set the record for consecutive Sunday Runs on Saturday, and (2) so we can all stay up late to see the Patriots put an end to this Tebow stuff. But neither was enough to move the run this week. So this week we’ll be running our first Sunday run of the season on Sunday.

This week’s run will stretch out your miles some in our first of many trips to Spot Pond this season. We’ll head up Wyoming Avenue to Grimsby’s and take a left onto the Fellsway East. If you haven’t run here before you’ll be introduced to two long challenging hills. If you have been here before you’ll be mumbling under your breathe questions about why I make you run these things. But in no time you’ll be on the other side of them, running to a rotary where the Fellsway East meets Highland Ave. Take a right on Highland Ave and make your way up towards Spot Pond. There you’ll find water stop #1.

From the water stop, shorter distance runners will continue straight past a rotary by Flynn Rink along the eastern edge of Spot Pond. Since this is Melrose-centric I refer to this as the “Front” side of Spot Pond. You’ll head up to Pond St where you’ll turn right bringing you back down to Grimsby’s. A left there along the Lynn Fells Parkway to a right onto Melrose St, and another quick right onto Main St and back to Brueggers will finish up your 7 mile run. Those in need of a short cut, go straight at Grimsby’s  back to a left on Main St to Brueggers for 6 miles.

Those running long will leave the water stop and go left at the rotary onto Elm St. This will take you down towards Rt 28 where you’ll go right up what we have dubbed Slackers Hill. This is where Slackers may choose to take a little walking break… but we don’t have any slackers, do we? Continue around the “back” side of Spot Pond, under I-93, past the Sheepfold, over I-93 to the Straw Point parking lot. If you don’t know, this is the parking lot/cut through before the intersection where Friendly’s and Mobil is. Cut through the parking lot over to Pond St and follow it past the Stone Zoo, along the front side of Spot Pond, straight onto Woodland Rd and back to the water stop.

From there you’ll take your first left onto East Border. Those mumblings under your breathe will now start being expressed louder as you climb a short steep hill, turn left onto the Fellsway East and rerun those first hills coming back, running past Grimsby’s onto the LynnFells Parkway, over one more big hill, past Melrose High School. Take a right onto Melrose St, a quick right onto Main St, and you’ll find yourself back at Brueggers in no time!

I will be handling the water stops this week. There will be just the one on Highland Ave. Thanks to all that have volunteered, we’ll have plenty of opportunities coming up for help.

So who’s in?! ROLL CALL!!!

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