• Manor Road is great, too •
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Twenty-one recorded runners took off from the horse stables at the top of Forbidden Dr with one newbie in tow, Lynette. She’ll get to Shawmont Avenue eventually—what with her sights on a first marathon with Philadelphia in November—but that run was to be an 8-miler that All That Jaz was happy to do with her.
Although she wasn’t a newbie, JulCee (daughter of KayCee, don’t you know) was visiting from NYCee and herself priming for a first marathon with that same city’s in October. That SRC run was her first Shawmont Avenue, though. Still coasting off her Broad Street Run conditioning, she ascended with little trouble.
At Roxy service station, when we reached the top, 10 of us congregated and congratulated ourselves. Myself prepping for Philly in the fall, I was happy to anticipate an extra 2 miles with Quietman Tom and Tall Dave. It’s been many a month since they were in the Shawmont Manor groove and it was a precious experience to be able to go off with them.
More precious than that, though, was the experience of heading back toward Port Royal Road and hearing JulCee comment with shock in her voice, “We’re going back down?!”
Soon enough, marathon trainers. Soon enough.
-CtCloser (Calvinthe) “Negative Split or Positive Splat” #dothedue
FINE PRINT ¶Text by Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. ¶Cross-published: Facebook Shawmont Running Club (ZY Weekly Newsletter 6/14/25), Shawmont Running Club website, Ruminations by CtCloser. ¶This website posting: Rumination with added caption
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