Training Log Archive: barb

To Hynes a couple times for ISMB conference.

Coming home in the afternoon I waited for the downpour to abate. In the driving rain, a parade of people went by: protesters, with signs railing against anti-immigration measures. Later I figured out that the Governors' association was meeting in Boston, and in fact there was some kind of event at the same conference center I was at, requiring extra security.

While watching the rain on Boylston Street I saw something I'd never seen before: manhole covers popping around like the lid on a boiling pot of water, with geysers streaming up through their holes.

To conference, to work, to home for bike trailer, to grocery store for O snacks, to Public Garden for the conference orienteering event (wonderfully designed by Deb Humiston), then back home. On the way back, Dave & I stopped and watched a few minutes of Wizard of Oz, which was playing at the Hatch Shell. We got to see "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", Toto escaping, the tornado, the arrival of the Good Witch, and the Munchkins.

Orienteers putting on the speed:

C • Nice variety! 2

Jogged from hotel to event site. Not nearly enough warmup; I need more like 12 hours.

We stayed in the hotel because the previous night our air mattress sprang a slow leak. At 2:30 am it had deflated enough that Dave and I started waking up half way and rolling around on the large gravel underneath. Made me really really appreciate a proper bed the next night. Beds are so cool. I love beds.

sprint. fun. messed up controls 4 & 2.

C • Missed you 7

Some uphill walking home from the awesome Seattle fireworks.

Sprint - Course 6 - Splits