Taking a job for the summer in North Bridgton Maine. Does anybody know any routes in the area that I should check out? Also I noticed the area is relatively hilly. Is there any loops that are relatively flat where I can run tempos?
Taking a job for the summer in North Bridgton Maine. Does anybody know any routes in the area that I should check out? Also I noticed the area is relatively hilly. Is there any loops that are relatively flat where I can run tempos?
Theres definitely flatter stretches in the area.
citius5000 wrote:
Theres definitely flatter stretches in the area.
do you recommend any roads I should check out?
No specific recommendations, but I’d say just explore. My family has a place in Casco nearby. There’s a host of lightly traveled, some dirt, roads between Pleasant Lake and Long Lake that might be good for loops. Likely similar on the west side of Long Lake where you’ll be. Just stay off numbered routes (which should be obvious, but can sometimes be difficult if you don’t want to do an out and back).
Rapraptor wrote:
Taking a job for the summer in North Bridgton Maine. Does anybody know any routes in the area that I should check out? Also I noticed the area is relatively hilly. Is there any loops that are relatively flat where I can run tempos?
if you haven't used the strava global heat map, do so stat. answers all these questions.
Marsh Island in Orono Maine is often called the Flagstaff of the east.
Enjoy your time here!!!!
It’s insane, in plain, to train in Maine. Intr’st wanes, no love again, but silly games and times inflames.
I live in Salem's Lot. I don't run at night.
Like Vermont and New Hampshire, Maine is full of people of French descent who for whatever reason weren't shipped off to Louisiana with the Cajuns. Just a heads up, lots of Frenchies.
Bear Pond Road to the north of town looks like a good, flat, quiet road for a tempo. Also Mountain Road on the west side of Moose Pond, and Hancock Road in West Sebago has a couple long flat sections with a 100' hill between. None of these roads are going to be totally flat, so you will need to just run by feel and not by pace at times.
I knew a girl up there.
Middle of nowhere. Track down Ben True and pick his brain.
And watch out for bears in those woods.
No, but I can tell you that the elite athlete coordinator for the Beach to Beacon 10k is a total a-hole.
There's a treadmill in a gym near there but I forget the name of it. ....actually it might have been Vermont.
why cause you cannot run sub 34 for a 1ok and wanted room, travel and meal money???
I'm from that area, the Mountain Division Trail in Fryeburg is paved and flat. No super long, I think around 8 miles for an out and back, but a good place for tempos as there are no cars and not a ton of bikers/walkers on it either.
Check out the 4 on the 4th road race in Bridgton, fun event with some faster people.
OP,
One thing I will warn you is that by mid to late June, The deer flies and horse flies become unbearable for most people, if you are running trails in the woods. They don't seem to be that bad if you are running over pavement, the heat seems to bug them, no pun intended.
l\'attencion! wrote:
Like Vermont and New Hampshire, Maine is full of people of French descent who for whatever reason weren't shipped off to Louisiana with the Cajuns. Just a heads up, lots of Frenchies.
This is a bad thing because…? Some bitter people on this thread