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It was never my intention to participate in the Upper Valley Segment Running Challenge. As the organizer, it felt weird to simultaneously oversee a challenge and compete in it. But I changed my mind when someone – jokingly, in good fun – gave me their thoughts on the whole thing: “The Segment Challenge? Oh yeah, I heard about that! Isn’t that the thing where you have to run along a small small stretch of land like a million times? That’s the exact opposite of what I want to be doing. I want to be running as many segments as I…

The Segment Challenge email sent to the club in late April by William Ren came at just the right time for me. I had not run much over the winter, and the nudge of a challenge is just what I needed. Here are some of the things I experienced and learned. Spoiler alert: the Upper Valley is a great corner of the world. Experiencing its facets with the changes of spring and the weather made it even more interesting. Five of the six segments were “old friends,” but even they changed throughout the challenge. This was most obvious in the…

Name: Seth Stemmer Current Town: Lebanon  Hometown: Duluth, MN Profession: Physical Therapist Why did you join UVRC?  I was new to town and the best advice I got from a college was to take something you enjoy and join a club to meet people in the upper valley What prompted you to start running? I hurt my back around five years ago and I remember going out for a jog to “loosen up” and it actually worked, I remember texting my wife that I thought running was going to fix my back. I continue to run because… The amount of…