Morse Mountain Time Trial, Try 3

Here's a report from Nick about the team's self-test at Morse Mountain:

This weekend marks the end of our fourth week of training as a team and last week of training without coaches or college support. The last month has been very successful with lots of quality training time and also lots of team bonding and getting to know all the newcomers to the team. September is a tricky time of year for us because it takes some getting used to the college schedule and we don’t have vans or coaches to organize us. The Morse Mountain Time Trial was an example of this. We had originally hoped to do it two weekends ago but we had a hard time making it happen with the weather, transportation and peoples schedules until today.

Anyhow the time trial came together today and we had nearly everyone who isn’t on the XC team this fall make it out to do it. The rains of hurricane Kyle threatened to make for a miserable day but it ended up just being misty/foggy for the majority of the run. On good days you can see a good stretch of the coast and interior from Morse Mountain but today the view was pretty grey. I think people were pretty happy with the first go at the time trial with times in the 6-8 minute range. The real importance of this workout is comparing times we do later this fall to today’s efforts. After the interval we enjoyed a nice cool down run along the beach which we had to ourselves. If you haven’t been to Seawall Beach before, it’s a must-do if you’re in the area. Nearby Popham Beach has road access and gets crowded at times but because you have to walk in the 1.5 miles over Morse Mountain, Seawall is always empty. The day wasn’t exactly good for getting a sun tan or going swimming though so we booked it back for brunch at Moulton. I’m not sure who posted the best time in the time trial but Dan definitely won brunch in terms of quantity of food consumed.

-Nick