Wednesday night trail work is pretty much THE social even of the week on the Hayward calendar. Every week, a group of sweet people get together to go over the trail with fine tooth comb. Seriously, i've seen gardens in waaaay worse condition than that trail. Golf courses, even. It all becomes worth it when we have a bad snow year again, and can still race on 5" of snow.
Unfortunately, we finished up the last of the new classic trail this week, so our weekly get to get-togethers are over for now. The classic trail goes all the way to OO now. In addition to making the classic race less crowded, it's also another low snow year precaution. Generally, the north end of the trail gets just a little more snow than the south. If we have another year like 2 years ago (where they had just enough snow to hold the shortened race from telemark to OO) they'll be able to send the entire race out the skate track and back on the classic, for a full marathon lenght. Pretty sweet, eh?
Heather needs a Hayward boy! Unfortunately, this frog did not turn into him...