Connetquot: Part TwoMay 26th, 2024 Visiting Long Island has provided me with the chance to once again tackle the blue loop at Connetquot River State Park Preserve. Here I recount this morning’s run as a follow-up to my Connetquot inner monologue from nearly one year ago. I arrived at the park fairly early, paid my entrance fee, and […]

Connetquot: The Recounting of a Nine Mile Inner MonologueMay 31st, 2023 When I arrived at Connetquot River State Park Preserve, I paid $8 to enter. I questioned if it was worth the money when I could have easily run anywhere else. However, thinking ahead to the many trail and park races that I have planned for the summer, […]

Introduction Introducing… Andrew Scalese. Better known as just simply “Scalese,” Andrew is a graduating senior from the University of Maryland, studying Civil Engineering with a focus area in environmental and water resources. While an avid runner and member of club running, Scalese can also be seen as a member and the treasurer of a professional environmental science fraternity […]

Everybody bring yourself back to the fall of 2019, the last year in our new collective BC (before COVID). While some of you reading this were mere 9th graders at the time (*shudders*), for me it was my first semester at the University of Maryland.  On around the second or third day of classes I received a message […]