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August 1 SLR

Happy Friday!

Tomorrow is August already!  And we'll be running the Marymount Chain Bridge loop.  There are long uphills in the first part of the run, but great scenery and you finish on the familiar and relatively easy C&O.  Midpoint beverages will be provided by Howell Posner and post-run beverages by Dick Conway.  Please thank our friendly neighborhood volunteers, and see you all tomorrow!

Kristin

SLR Saturday, July 25

Hello Saturday Runners!

This week's route is the Glover/Mass/Capital Crescent route.  It's failry self-explanatory (first Glover trail, then Mass Ave, then the Capital Crescent trail), yet also full of twists and turns and varied terrain.  Word is our mid-point beverages will be on the Capital Crescent trail (in case you want to stick to the Capital Crescent instead of the *real* trail running on Glover), provided by Mary Endres.  Please enthusiastically thank her!  I know we'll have post-run beverages and I think Dick Conway has taken over coverage of that for this week, so please be sure to thank him as well.  He's been helping us out consistently week after week-- thanks, Dick!

A note on the post-run beverages:  they are intended to be POST-run beverages.  Please, please be considerate of our volunteers-- if you intend to carry water/gatorade/whatever on your run (and I highly recommend you do so), please make every effort to carry your first round with you from home, instead of filling up from the post-run stores at Iwo Jima.  We want to provide refills beyond the amounts people can carry, but it gets very difficult to make purchase estimates (not to mention loading, unloading, storing, and transferring all the heavy containers each week) if there's a big dent in the supply before we even have a chance to get started with the run.  This way it's easier to make sure there is enough for EVERYONE, from the first one finished to the last. 

Thank you so much for your consideration!

Here's the cue sheet for this week.  See you tomorrow!

Glover Archbold/Mass Ave./Capital Crescent Loop (created by Robert Wolfe)
13.5 miles, includes combination of all trail types

-- Start: Iwo Jima
- Cross Key Bridge. Take Capital Crescent for one-half mile.
- Just past 10 mile marker, turn right through culvert. After culvert, loop to the right and turn right on Canal Rd. Take QUICK right into trailhead of Glover Archbold trail
- After 2 miles on the trail, the 4th street crossing is Massachusetts Ave. Turn left.
- After going 2 miles and passing 2 traffic circles on Mass. Ave., you'll see a little bridge crossing overhead. This the Capital Crescent Trail. Take the ramp on the left up to the trail and go left (south) all the way back to Key Bridge and back to Iwo Jima.