Hills of Westboro (10m)

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Breakfast: Stonyfield Strawberry Yogurt
Lunch: Two hard-boiled eggs; banana
Dinner: Eight water crackers, hamburger & pasta, mixed vegetables, olive oil, butter, one ounce raisins, slab of cheese, 16 sunflower seed crackers.

Drinks: Two coffees, one Propel, three Pilsner Urquells


2008 - 10,500 (184,500) AU=7 (84)
2009 - 28,300 (300,500) AU=3 (45)

11-0/0-2

Today I decided to explore the trails in Westboro/Southboro/Northboro area and found an excellent place for future walks. I started off by parking in a hospital parking lot but later found a parking area right by the trailhead. The first section of the trail wove through some swampland and into a piece of forest before tunneling under the main road and emerging at the foot of a hill with two water towers on top. Climbed that hill and went on to another hill that was actually a plateau that is being maintained by some preservation society for birds. Not a lot of birds today but I can imagine that come spring, the place will be full of them. Walked down and up the same hill by another trail and finally moved on to a connecting road that took me around an old farm. Then I looped back and eventually ended up at my car - about 11 miles of total walking, much of it up and down hill.

The walking was very tough and I definitely sprained or pulled some muscles in my feet from all the walking over snow cover. My leg muscles were exhausted by time I got back to car. Got home early afternoon and had yet another quiet evening of vacation.