My Muddy Shoes

SATURDAY TRAILS WITH MUDDY SHOES

Hey Trail Toadies,

Saturday is just around the corner. Time to talk about what we are going to do. Well, we’re running…obviously. In case you hadn’t figured that out! But we’ll be heading to the wonderful trails of Cabin John this week. Weather Goddess (Mother Nature) will be smiling upon us again with run time temps around 63 degrees and no precip in the works. It will be a little humid when we start but it will be dropping quite a bit while we are out there pounding dirt.

So, we’ll see you there!

OK, first, announcements:

Muddy Shoes swag is still available! We got Hats ($15), Buffs ($10) and Re-usable Cups ($5). See Coach Phil.

The Groovin’ Woodstock Trail 7k XC race last Sunday was a huge success. Most runners ever! Thanks to all volunteers and participants! We’ll do it again next year! Nice job, Gretchen (RD)!

Looking down the road, for folks doing Stone Mill this year we have the world -famous Muddy Shoes SM50 Course Preview Runs coming up on each weekend in October as well as the Phantastic Phall Phat Ass Haph Marathon and 10k the weekend before Stone Mill (great taper run!). Come out and get a preview of a different section of the actual course each Saturday in October. Do all four runs, you’ll see the whole course. Come join us even if you aren’t doing Stone Mill. Everyone is welcome! Donations appreciated. Lots of good trail fun.

Lastly, currently in discussion with Coach Rick from the DC Striders Wolfpack to do a Saturday mash-up trail run with Muddy Shoes! Looking at the weekend of 13 September but details still being worked out. Stay tuned!

Now for the run details…

Location: Cabin John Regional Park

Address: 7400 Tuckerman Ln, Rockville, MD 20852

Date: 09 August 2025

Time: 0730

Course: South to Macarthur Blvd and back. Easy-Peezy! First road crossing is about 1.5 miles in. The trail will dump you onto Democracy Blvd. Go right and continue to intersection with Seven Locks Road. Here you can cross either way the lights let you but get to the opposite street corner (catty-corner). Proceed down Seven Locks for ~ ¼ mile until you see trail markings on the metal guard rail and hop over guard rail onto trail. Next road crossing is Bradley Blvd. Cross over and continue on trail down to River Road. Cross over (Carefully!) and pick up trail that will parallel River Road down to Seven Locks. Go right on Seven Locks for a couple hundred yards and cross to pick up trail again on left. Take this to playground at MacArthur.

Distance: 14-ish (feel free to do shorter)

Pace: Fast, slow and in-between

Vibe: Chill…very chill but getting warmer!

Hope to C U there cuz THESE TRAILS AIN’T GONNA RUN THEMSELVES!

Namaste,

Muddy Shoes