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MARIE GRIFFIN Thayer's Corners BETTY BLODGETT Thompson's Lake ',, LORA RICKETTS Voorheesville PAT HOTALING Westerlo GLADYS CORNELL Cross-Country... (Continued from Page 1) * < across the Normanskill the first time involves shallow water, the return last year was three feet deep, and that if you slip on the rocks you might disappear. Someone asked whether there were alligators or crocodiles in the stream. He responded, \Alliga- tors.\ Someone in the back asked about piranha. Mr. Gates pleaded with everyone to register. Everyone should sign up; the entry fee was only 50 cents, and if you didn't have it you could pay him later. \I'neefl to have an accurate count of the number of runners, so that we'll know whether to send out search parties after the race.\ Then we all drifted over to the main roadway in the park, by the sticker-checking booth. There, Mr. Dates reemphasized that the course was a dangerous one. If you have never run it before, he said, don't race — run through it, use this week to become familiar with it before you race. Parts of it are very steep. There is a 150-foot stretch of it which goes up at a 45 degree angle. There are very steep downhills. On the other hand, \unless you've recently had a frontal labotomy, there is no way you can get lost.\ We worked our way to-the rear of : the cluster of runners, so as to not get trampled by, faster runners at the start. The gun went off. We started down the main road leading from the swimming pool. parking lot to the lower ball fields. The lead runners were already far ahead. We circled around the two. ball fields, then headed uphill along the road which gees behind the pool and towards the Perform- ing Arts Center. Easy enough so far, we thought. We passed in front of the PAC and then headed on a dirt road into the woods, not far from where the kids had found wild raspberries on our last visit to the PAC. We hit a trail junction and found Mr. Oates directing us to the right, as did also a chalk arrow laid out on the ground. He yelled at us as we went by that the next part was very steep. We jumped over a couple of fallen tree trunks, then headed down a moderately steep path. Not bad—just comparable to a section of the road which goes around the SUNY pond. The path was kind of pitted here and there, and if you landed wrong you could twist an <SPECIAL SALE* * EVERGREENS A TREES* SHRUBS • 1/3 OFF • 1 effers Nursery,E 1900 N«w Scaffold Id SlinMtkinds • 439-5555 OPEN Tuesday — Sunday ankle, but it didn't seem worthy of \if you fall, you will .die!\ Of course, maybe some runners like to try to run four-minute miles on this kind of terrain. The downhill brought us\ to the Normanskill. The course was supposed to require us to wade across the stream in shallow water, then return in deeper water. But the summer had been quite dry, and to an old hiker, it was instantly clear how to get across the stream by hopping from rock to rock, 'keeping one's feet dry. We passed two or three wading \runners\ while doing so. Then the route went along a narrow path along the edge of the stream for about 100 feet, to reach the return crossing. We reached that point and took a quick look. The standard path was right through the water. To the right, it looked as though one could get most of the way across on dry rocks. But what about the last few feet? It could be deep. We shrugged — well, we're supposed to get wet, let's do it. So we plunged in. The water turned out to be about knee-high, not waist-high. The bottom contained a lot of roundish rocks, a little slippery, but easy to hop on blindly. So we did, quickly enough so that we forgot to consider how refreshing the stream was. Onward and upward! We scrambled up the bank and headed back to where we first crossed the stream. There the route got serious. Before us was a narrow path which headed straight up the valley wall, the 45 degree slope we were warned about. We started running slowly up the path, squishing with each step from the water in our shoes and the soaking wet socks from having just crossed the Normanskill. We passed one walking competitor, and then realized that we were running out of breath — we couldn't keep running either. So we walked fast. We'd recently done some hiking in the Adirondacks and that turned out to be useful practice for this part of the route. But it was still tough. At the top of the path we found ourselves, breathing hard, on a dirt road which headed right and put us, after a short stretch, on the edge of the Western Turnpike Golf Course, the third fairway of the white course. The level run along the 400-yard fairway was very helpful in catching our breath from the uphill. Then we turned back into the woods on another dirt road, which returned us to Mr. Oates's intersection, where he headed us in an uphill direction, not too steep. We headed up that road; and met a batch of the lead runners coming the other way, the runners in 13th through 18th place. We all wished each other well. Then we veered off from the lead runners, and followed the dirt road Continued on Page 3 -v The Altamont Enterprise — Thursday, September 1, 1983 /' c£Applebee Sne>. -Serving All of Albany County far Three Generations- 439-2715 403 Kenwood Avenue Delmar, New York atxatxstttswtaowitatXMatsawyaMtxaoc HOME MADE AT Smith's Toven VOORHEESVILLE, NEW YORK * Talc© Out Orders • Uncooked Pizza To Go Come watch Smitty's operating model trains. 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