Fabulous Fahnestock

A 'fabulously' scenic run along the trails of New York’s Hudson Valley

Fabulous Fahnestock Trail Races

Cold Spring, N.Y. | Saturday, August 16, 2025

A gorgeously scenic run through Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Park, whose 14,000-plus acres in New York’s Hudson Valley feature trails where you’ll “climb up long hills, run past lakes and ponds, and along old dirt roads and abandoned rail beds, with an optimal amount of single track,” organizers say, adding that its “varied landscape includes hemlock gorges, bald ridge hilltops, second-growth hardwood forest, mountain laurel thickets, and numerous lakes, ponds and streams.” You can go as hard or as easy as you like, with distance options from 5 1/2 miles to 25 or even 50 kilometers.

$50 and up

---

A great running read

What It’s Like to Run the Speed Project, a 340-Mile Unsanctioned Road Race. Each spring, a group of some of the hardest hardcore runners you’ll ever meet — including THM friend and reader Hannah Yoest — set out on a journey by foot along the sand and highways between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, running to re-connect with something deeper, wilder and more meaningful:

A first-generation U.S. citizen, [Rahhel] couldn't help but feel moved by the juxtaposition of her decision to run in the desert to with her family's recent history fleeing war in Eritrea. "I was running by choice, across states, while they ran for survival," Woldu said. "That contrast grounded me. Every step became a tribute to the women who brought me here."

She dedicated each leg of her journey to the women in her family—her great-grandmothers, grandmothers, and her mother. “It felt like it was a way for me to draw closer to the people that brought me here.”

---

Words to run by

“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities… Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.”

— Charles Dickens