A New Discovery

Today I ran after shooting at America's Test Kitchen. Being hesitant to run on the city streets, (mostly because I don't know where I'm going), I headed over to the reservoir that I've seen driving in so many times on route 9. I've run there a few times now and, to be honest, don't really enjoy it that much. It's just shy of a mile around which is good, but its packed stone dust, and isn't anywhere near level any more.
As a result there are tons of dips and rises and it gets pretty hard on the calves and ankles.

After 3 loops, I decided to get off of the path and onto the road. I had done 2.7, and my plan was to do about 5. (I AM supposed to be tapering after all!) Anyway, off onto the road I went with no real direction.
After going down a hilly road in a VERY nice neigborhood (one house I saw had to be at least a 3 or 4 million dollar mansion with a security checkpoint under construction), I ended up at another reservoir that I hadn't known about. This one had a paved path! After asking a couple of other runners I found out that this loop was 1.5 miles which would put me just over my planned distance of 5 miles once I got back to the car, so I went for it.

I'm pretty sure this new reservoir was actually Jamaica Pond. It was actually quite nice to run around. It has a lot more traffic that the first reservoir which I have discovered is Brookline Reservoir. I'm sure as the weather continues to get better, there will be more and more people, but for now it's pretty cool.
In the future, I'm just going to leave my car at ATK and head straight over to Jamaica Pond instead.
In fact, I'm pretty sure Jamaica Pond links up with another pond and path so the loop might extend past 2 miles. I'll have to scout it out on a future run.

After finishing the loop, I tried to improvise and find my way back to the car without following the same route I took away from it. This proved a bit difficult and I got lost for a little bit. No biggie though. My 5.5 mile run turned into a 7 miler which was just fine by me.

Side note, this run put me over 180 miles for the month which I think is a first. It also put me over 500 miles for the year so far!

19 days till Boston.....