running (pavement) 1:48:56 [3] 10.93 mi (9:58 / mi) +150m 9:34 / mi
shoes: Nike Initiator
Lunenburg Project #11.
Northfield Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
<-> Connell Dr.
-> Mass Ave.
<-> Meadow Wood Trailer Park
-> Mass Ave.
-> Cross St.
-> Mulpus Rd.
<-> Hunting Hill Rd.
-> Mulpus Rd.
-> shortcut through a farm in Shirley
-> West Groton Rd.
<-> old road
-> Mass Ave.
-> Cross St.
-> Mulpus Rd.
-> Townsend Harbor Rd.
-> South Row Rd.
-> Island Rd.
-> trails
-> Gilchrest St.
A slightly longer outing than I had planned. I had figured on the main figure-8, with Hunting Hill added in. When I got to Connor (a street that had barely ever caught my eye), I decided to add it. Then when I got to the trailer park, I couldn't remember whether the roads in there are considered streets or not, but I didn't think I'd be doing that stretch of Mass Ave. again, so I ran through there just in case. And when going down Rte. 225, I saw that the houses on the north side are all on a parallel street that appears to be the old course of the road before the road got straightened and a modern bridge got put in (probably before I was born). But their mailboxes are on that parallel street, so I went ahead and ran it. The Fire Dept. street directory doesn't list it, and Google Maps shows it without a name. OSM calls it West Groton Rd. and has Rte. 225 listed as Old Massachusetts Avenue, but that's apparently bogus, because the street sign for on Rte. 225 says West Groton Rd., and the side road has no street sign. Climb is a very rough guess based on the overall shape of the climb graph from my GPS. Looks like this puts the Hickory Hills district to bed, and at 25% of the way through the year gets me over the 25% mark on both the list of named streets and the total distance (although I've done more than that -- I don't check off a street until it's complete, and I have a couple of long ones that are not quite done). In the NE quadrant (north of 2A and east of 13), it looks like I have everything except short parts of 2A and 13 themselves, Memorial Drive, North Cemetery, and Seaver Rd. (which I will likely leave for last).