A RUN/CYCLE THROUGH HISTORY…..
EVENT: The Selden Hills Throwback Run.
Date: Sunday, September 14, 2014
Time: 7AM
History
Hills History- Part 3
HILLS HISTORY. Part 3
Ever wonder how much of our course is actually run in Selden? We are the Selden Hills Warriors after all! Well I wonder about that ALL the time so why not get to the bottom of it once and for all so I can start wondering about other things….like how the heck am I ever going to win a Warrior of the Month with all you mileage machines kicking butt every month!!
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Hills History- Part 2
Selden Hills History. Part 2.
In 1790 George Washington wrote in his diary that the 7 or 8 farms in the area within two miles of Koram “are on land that is of indifferent quality with much mixed with sand….intolerable hills.”
Hills History- Part 1
Did you ever wonder while meandering among the hills and valleys of our course what the area was like a hundred years ago? 200 years ago? Hey I don’t listen to I Tunes when I run so I have to think about something right?
Well here is what I found out……
Hill History- The Rich Hollmann Interview: Part 2
The Selden Hills….The Rest of the Story….Part 2
Rich Hollmann said by the mid 1980’s the MCR group began winding down. The Ski Bowl put up fences and began charging admission to get on the grounds. It had run it’s course….so to speak…and only on occasion would several of them meet up to run the course. Eventually it became just a get together at Amici’s to have dinner and a few laughs.
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Hill History- The Rich Hollmann Interview: Part 1
The Hills of Selden…….The Rest of the Story…………
Although we did not know it at the time, Maryann Harkins and myself planted the seed that started this amazing running group that is now known as The Selden Hills Warriors. While this seems so long ago…its been almost 4 years now….in reality our hills have been training runners for decades if not longer. Who knows what the future holds for our group? We only have the present to lay the groundwork for that future. However I have always been curious about the hills runners of the past and how it established the framework of how we train on our beloved hills today.
So my investigative instincts I’ve honed over the many years as a Postal inspector drew me to this assignment:
The Rich Hollmann interview