I went to NW Mass today to visit a customer site. This is by far the most beautiful part of MASS, and a place that most people who visit Boston fail to appreciate. This part of MASS is is very hilly/mountainous, aka The Berkshires. I will be making 2 trips per month out this way and plan to make stops in the state forest areas for some running on my future visits. These are short site visits, which leaves me a couple of hours to get in a nice run.
While I was driving through the hills I noticed that many of the trees had cables?/tubes?/ropes? running from one tree to another. At first I thougth it may be some sore of irrigation, but there didn't seem to be any pattern to the connecting tubes. After some thought and further investigation, I realized that these were maple trees. Near by on the roads I saw the infamous sugar houses. This is where the maple drains to for reduction. So I took it upon my self to stop in and puck up a half gallon of the good stuff. The flavor is amazing, and I kinda wish I could use it for my marathon fueling instead of the damn gel packets, it certainly tastes much better. I can't wait to make the first batch of pancakes and use half of the bottle on the pancakes.
On the running front, I got in 70 minutes at the arboretum.
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