MHM -106/quick eight -- Sat. June 26

Schedule for driving to NY meant not time before it for a planned Quabbin run. Actually set off by car, but realised I had no water -- too hot to try that. So back home and decided for a local figure of eight. Down to water plant, but too buggy to stretch for long; in trail shoes, and head up on trails to Wallace pond, then out at police station, round state school and cross to rail trail; out to OldSpfld and up to the middle school, which I loop around for a variation (on fields); then back round to reenter trails at back end of Piper Farm trail--that's *way* overgrown now, alas, and I was afraid I'd have poison ivy everywhere. . . Out opposite chez Heyes, and up to town center, then down Jabish, out to 9 and head home from there. Stop clock just after supermarket:

Time: 1:02:49
Distance: 8.27 miles
Pace: 7:36s

Comment: hot, and a varied tricky run in its way--fortunately, no poison ivy.