It is wet. but it is nice for running on trails. There is an Adubon (sp) Sanctuary behind Franklin Park that I have always wanted to check out, because it always appeared to me as hidden and unused behind American Legion Highway. Today was my chance. It’s not so great, there’s a lot of trash and all, but today it was good for three reasons. One, the sign on the outside fence says no tresspassing. Two, it was muddy, and it’s always fun to run on trails when they are muddy. Three, there was nobody else there. It would be a good place to run if it stretched out a little further. I only got about a mile, maybe a mile and a half tops in there.
The best places to run around my neck of the woods:
1. Arnold Arboretum
2. Larz Anderson Park
3. Franklin Park
4. Jamaica Pond/Emerald Necklace
5. Stony Brook Reservation
6. That Route that goes along the Orange Line
Worst place to run:
Hyd Park Ave, although I think it would be cool to have a Hyde Park Avenue Mile Race Sponsored by BearingPoint!
Here is an excerpt from a letter to the editor in the Roslindale Gazette this morning:
“To suggest that the aggression in the Patriot Act is nothing to worry about since we are not terrorists misses the point. Consider that earlier this week, the entire Lao community of Roslindale was summarily shipped to Guantanomo Bay. I am speaking, of course, of our good friend Alfonse Johnson, who was a valued member of the community. What makes the situation even worse is that Alfonse made a living stitching together little Lao worry dolls that bear a striking resemblence to the prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon Him). We all worry what will happen to Alfonse once he settles into Gitmo and begins handing out those little dolls as tokens of friendship as he did when he first moved to Roslindale.”