Training Log Archive: barb

First half of the rogaine - aka the prelude.

I'm sure PG will have all the details. :-)

Very wonderful experience, in retrospect, as always. Awesome partner. And, I got to stay in Sunderland Fri and Sun nights, which meant getting to eat Gail's excellent dinners! I like the moss. It feels good on the bare rogaine-tenderized feet.

Felt nauseous sometimes. Candidate reasons include: heat, diet change (eg sugar), sugar ups/down, needed a more substantial breakfast than iced decaf coffee + corn muffin, fanny pack belt pressure on the GI tract. Next time, bring Tums and salt. Feeling sick is no fun during a rogaine.

Just one blistered area on the back of the right heel. Legs and joints felt pretty good. Really good. Feet hurt again but were not quite as intolerable as they felt last rogaine.

I sure am grateful to the folks who go to so much trouble to put on these rogaine experiences for us! Thank you!

Thanks also to Barb & Mark for the hot shower! And Charlie for bringing me food when it was too painful to walk to the food table!

I have lots of questions about how/what the other teams did. What routes? Did any of them end up in the really thick stuff? What was hard? How did the team work together?

8/9/17

To the Fells and back. Plus work commute, which I think is now 3 minutes. A lovely morning to be biking. Tried to take it "relaxed" except for a couple sprints to make a light or keep up with another biker. Started at 6:15 am after lounging in front of the computer too long.

Finished Brendan's line-O. Found 5 flags for a total of 10; he said there were 11. So maybe that one I thought I saw along a path was the 11th. There were mosquitos. Saw no one else in the woods.

One of my new co-workers is Louise Bergeron. Which is uncannily similar to "Louis E. Bergeron". I expect Eddie may end up getting the occasional email from me about top-secret work stuff.

C • Eddie's alter ego 6

Timed the commute today. 1.5 minutes on the bike. (If I take a shortcut involving a little bit of wrong way riding.)

9/9/17

Medford
5:50 am
Yesterday I read news stories in the morning before heading out to the woods on my bike. One story was about a guy who shot two men for no reason in the woods. Another was about a 22 year old woman who was killed by a truck just riding in the bike lane in DC. This morning I didn't read the news first.
I felt hot in my long black tights and Swiss O shirt, which is what I'd been planning to wear for the rogaine. So I began to wonder what else I could wear that will be cooler, given the weather forecast. Let's see, what is the forecast now?
Sat high 90 low 69 partly cloudy
Sun high 80 low 59 scattered t-storms (when?)

C • Sad news stories 2

Did about half of the line-O Brendan set recently. Found 5 flags; there might have been another on a path that had been torn down. I'm planning on going back tomorrow to do the rest. I ran out of time; had a 7:45 am breakfast get-together in Central Square. I struggled a lot at the beginning of the line-O trying to figure out what was going on; even where the start was. It took me about 15 minutes to get into it. After I quit the line-O and was just running around on the trails, it was very relaxing. I think this is the perfect thing to get into rogaine mode...

Started 5:30 am. To the Fells and beyond to see if Harvey was home (he wasn't), then parked and ran around in the woods, then back home for the first day on the new job.

14/9/17

Another photo of Diego and his new siblings:



I am looking forward to meeting him! Which will happen in about a month when I go to pick up the kids.

C • cute kid !! 4

ack - last day of work at Millennium. Had been hoping to get to the CSU orienteering but I'm not going to make it. :-(

So today will not be a good day, points-wise.

7/9/17

C • Points 9

6 am ride to the Fells. Work commute.

around in the Fells starting around 6:30 am. Saw 1 human, 1 canine, 1 (swimming) reptile.

View of the container garden from the upstairs porch:

12/9/17

OK, our first party will be Tuesday July 15th 4-8pm. You're invited. Live bluegrass, ping pong. No street-O planned but it's not inconceivable. Officially it's my leaving Millennium party but we figured we'd also start celebrating the new job, this domestic partnership thing, and Dave's birthday (7/21)...

And there is another thing to celebrate!! David and Isabel have a new little brother, Diego! Their dad and stepmom have just adopted him from Guatemala; they all went down and picked him up last week. Here are David, Isabel and Diego in Guatemala City:

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