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Friday Jul 31, 2015 #
Event: WOC 2015 & Scottish 6 days
5 AM
Gym 45:00 [1]
slept:6.5 weight:165.4lbs
Rhonda's morning class.
12 PM
cycling 1:32:31 19.97 mi (4:38 / mi) +240m 4:28 / mi
ahr:118 max:167
With Rhonda and Zack. Stunningly lovely day, but no zip in the legs.
Thursday Jul 30, 2015 #
7 AM
cycling 1:45:56 22.3 mi (4:45 / mi) +294m 4:34 / mi
ahr:112 max:150 slept:7.5 weight:164.6lbs
From PV with Rhonda. Sky a bit threatening, coolish, but gray and humid. Nice to be out.
10 AM
PT exercises 30:00 [3]
New exercises from my new friend Eric, stretching and strengthening. Hope springs etc.
Wednesday Jul 29, 2015 #
5 AM
Gym 1:00:00 [1]
slept:6.5 weight:165.6lbs
Rhonda's morning class. Just me, Rhonda and Jackie. Maybe too humid for some folks.
5 PM
Kayak 40:00 [1]
With Rhonda at Stanclift Cove. Hot in the sun, very pleasant in the shade nearer the shore. This is hard on my chronically weak and sore L forearm. Frustrating. Also hard to get the kayak on and off the roof. If I'm going to do this, I probably need to get a lighter weight one. Rhonda's is much lighter than mine.
Tuesday Jul 28, 2015 #
8 AM
cycling 1:06:00 [3] 14.5 mi (4:33 / mi)
slept:7.75 weight:165.8lbs
A hard time getting a ride in this morning. We left from Pleasant Valley, thinking we were going about 30 miles up toward Sandisfield, but hadn't gotten all that far when we encountered a woman calling from a bit off the road, asking if we had a cell phone. With my questionable hearing, I found myself wondering why this lady was asking about a snowcone. Fortunately Rhonda understood and we stopped. The lady was with a rather boisterous pitbull type dog, young and active, and off leash, now running out into the street. Still didn't quite get the problem, but I secured the dog and then she explained. She had been walking the dog on the trail, off leash, and he jumped up on her and knocked her off balance. She fell and broke her wrist, was in a lot of pain. She wanted us to call her husband, which we did rather promptly, he was on his way. She only lives about a mile away. So some time goes by, we assure her we will stay with her. After a bit I ask why it is taking so long and she says that he is working in Sandisfield, he is on his motorcycle, and will have to pick up the car at their house. So now I realize we are in for a bit of a wait, think about going back to get our car and either take her home or to the hospital, but that will take 20 minutes or so, and by then maybe he will have come. Some more time goes by and she remembers that she thinks she has the keys in her waistpack. So I dig them out, and now it seems like the right thing to ride to her house and either present the keys to her husband Dan, or if he hasn't shown up yet get her car and drive back for her. I head to the house and call out for Dan. Not only does he not have the key to the car, but he had left his key to the house home, and had just taken off a screen and climbed through a window. At last he was off to get the dog and secure it at home, then back to pick up the nice lady (Andrea) and whisk her off to Charlotte Hungerford ER for some needed attention. At last on our way, but having blown off about an hour on this exercise, we cut our ride short.
Monday Jul 27, 2015 #
5 AM
Gym 45:00 [1]
Rhonda's morning class.
7 AM
elliptical 15:00 [1]
warming up before working out with my friend Tom's personal trainer Eric at Healthtrax
8 AM
PT exercises 1:00:00 [1]
working out with Eric, stretching and strengthening - nothing I don't know how to do, but he is a good trainer and finding things that may work for me for my incredibly sore back, weak glutes and hams, etc.
2 PM
cycling 42:00 [3] 8.75 mi (4:48 / mi)
First part of bike ride with Zack. I had pressed the start button on the Garmin, but it didn't start, and I didn't notice until we had been going a while. Same ride I did a few days ago, from the house, ending up in West Simsbury. Zack was not as impressed with Lost Acres Rd as I was. It is a long downhill, but not steep enough for his tastes.
3 PM
cycling 1:07:01 16.25 mi (4:07 / mi) +203m 3:58 / mi
ahr:119 max:146
The rest of the ride. Pretty fine, although my back was tender.
Sunday Jul 26, 2015 #
Event: WMOC 2015
2 PM
Hike 49:44 2.47 mi (20:08 / mi) +162m 16:43 / mi
ahr:96 max:124 slept:7.5 weight:165.4lbs
With Rhonda, around the neighborhood, but a shorter loop. Back and hip quite sore this afternoon. They felt pretty good this morning, but deteriorated over the day, and I was not up for the longer loop. This included a visit with our young friend Belle, our favorite local teenager. She was doing some gardening for a neighbor and hailed us for a brief chat.
Saturday Jul 25, 2015 #
7 AM
cycling 2:42:14 30.76 mi (5:16 / mi) +437m 5:03 / mi
ahr:120 max:163 slept:7.0 weight:163.2lbs
With Rhonda, Cindy and Mike, from PV. Includes some wait time for a couple of stops, including one because Cindy couldn't get out of her pedals, so some time helping her out, and then adjusting the pedals, etc. Comparing to the bike computer, seems like 21 minutes off the bike.
Friday Jul 24, 2015 #
3 PM
Hike 1:04:11 4.3 mi (14:56 / mi) +239m 12:44 / mi
ahr:108 max:143 slept:6.0 weight:164lbs
around the neighborhood with Rhonda, same as yesterday.
Thursday Jul 23, 2015 #
9 AM
Hike 1:03:29 4.27 mi (14:52 / mi) +257m 12:32 / mi
ahr:107 max:151 slept:8.0 weight:165.2lbs
With Rhonda around the neighborhood. R hip flexor and quad on fire, although a bit better after I rolled it before the walk.
4 PM
cycling 1:48:15 24.83 mi (4:22 / mi) +495m 4:06 / mi
ahr:129 max:170
From home, including going down the excellent Lost Acres Rd, which I hadn't been on in many years. Zack picked me up in W Simsbury saving me the ugly climb home.
Wednesday Jul 22, 2015 #
5 AM
Gym 1:00:00 [1]
slept:6.75 weight:166.4lbs
Rhonda;s morning class, with a couple of front squats after.
4 PM
cycling 49:04 12.71 mi (3:52 / mi) +185m 3:42 / mi
ahr:143 max:254
From the house, to meet R & Z in W Simsbury. Felt like better legs than usual, but of course mostly downhill.
Tuesday Jul 21, 2015 #
Note
Wild kingdom here today. Handsome pileated woodpecker sampling the trees outside my office window, bear waltzing across the yard headed for the apple trees.
6 AM
cycling 1:30:07 19.96 mi (4:31 / mi) +232m 4:21 / mi
ahr:120 max:156 slept:7.5 weight:165.4lbs
With Rhonda from PV. Cool, gray, humid.
Monday Jul 20, 2015 #
4 PM
cycling 59:37 11.77 mi (5:04 / mi) +427m 4:33 / mi
ahr:131 max:172 slept:8.0
From the house, up Case Street and around, up Devil's elbow. Amazingly difficult to get up Devil's elbow these days.
8 PM
Note
Bears are getting out of hand this year. We had a couple of babies climbing in the plum tree a few days ago with their mom watching them. When Rhonda and Zack approached, mom reached up and grabbed them and moved on. Today we had a larger bear eating apples, climbed the apple tree and pretty much ripped the top off the tree. He moved on toward the plum tree and was not at all intimidated by me and Zack yelling at him. Gave us a baleful look and got back to what he was doing.
Sunday Jul 19, 2015 #
Event: O-Ringen 2015
8 AM
cycling 2:44:48 32.76 mi (5:02 / mi) +443m 4:50 / mi
ahr:111 max:143 slept:8.0 weight:163.4lbs
With Rhonda from W Simsbury, our longest outing so far. A lovely day to be out, and riding some of the roads I cycled when I lived in Bloomfield in the 80s. Coming through Granby thinking of people I used to know when I lived there in the early 70s. Quite a pleasant ride.
Pretty concerned about my ability to do this day after day in Sicily. My lower back is extremely sore, and was pretty much from the start of this ride today.
Pretty concerned about my ability to do this day after day in Sicily. My lower back is extremely sore, and was pretty much from the start of this ride today.
Saturday Jul 18, 2015 #
5 PM
cycling (spinning bike) 40:00 [3]
slept:8.0 weight:164.6lbs
Friday Jul 17, 2015 #
5 AM
Gym 1:00:00 [3]
slept:7.5 weight:165lbs
Rhonda's morning class, followed by a couple of sets of squats, on the theory that maybe they will help my back.
Thursday Jul 16, 2015 #
8 AM
cycling 2:03:55 25.92 mi (4:47 / mi) +367m 4:35 / mi
ahr:123 max:167 slept:8.0 weight:165.4lbs
With Rhonda, Mike and Cindy, up Sandy Brook
Wednesday Jul 15, 2015 #
6 PM
cycling (spinning bike) 34:00 [3]
slept:7.5 weight:166lbs
Raining off and on, and lots of work to do today, so never really got outside, alas. Watched the first segment of Signore e Signori or as it is known here, The Birds, the Bees and the Italians. Delightful.
Tuesday Jul 14, 2015 #
3 PM
Orienteering 13:57 1.09 mi (12:45 / mi) +42m 11:23 / mi
ahr:149 max:169 slept:6.5 weight:165.4lbs shoes: 2011 NB MT840
Sprint B, humid, and felt incredibly lethargic, but seem to have run my best time. Practice makes perfect, more or less.
Monday Jul 13, 2015 #
6 PM
Note
slept:8.0 weight:166lbs
There had been some negotiating with Zack during the afternoon about a possible bike ride - he was thinking about something longer and more difficult than I would have picked, but then we got into some yard work, and by the time we got in he was thinking about golf. So off we went to Simsbury Farms at about 6:30, got 9 holes in. First time I have played twice in the same year in quite some time - maybe 5 or 6 years, anyway. He was hitting some more powerful shots than I have seen him hit before, and somehow I played all 9 with the same ball, not even having to look very hard for it. A nice time, but the scores were pretty pedestrian. Sort of a PR, I suppose, in that I haven't played the back 9 in several years, and I have to reset PRs pretty often now.
All 3 of us were a bit out of sorts today. Rhonda had set up a party yesterday with some of her friends and their families. The women were supposed to show up at 2 for cooking lessons and gardening, the men at 4. Women actually arrived around 3-3:30 and the men at 6. And then stayed way too long.
All 3 of us were a bit out of sorts today. Rhonda had set up a party yesterday with some of her friends and their families. The women were supposed to show up at 2 for cooking lessons and gardening, the men at 4. Women actually arrived around 3-3:30 and the men at 6. And then stayed way too long.
Sunday Jul 12, 2015 #
2 PM
cycling 1:16:05 16.27 mi (4:41 / mi) +452m 4:18 / mi
ahr:128 max:159 slept:5.5 weight:165.6lbs
Shortish ride up to East Hartland and back. My back was really sore this morning, and I would have taken it off, but such a nice day and I doubt I will ride the next two days. Just by myself, as Zack declared it too hot and Rhonda had company.
C • Back 2
Saturday Jul 11, 2015 #
10 AM
cycling 1:45:20 22.42 mi (4:42 / mi) +279m 4:31 / mi
ahr:119 max:187 slept:6.25 weight:165.2lbs
Up Sandy Brook from PV with Rhonda. This was hard, and pretty discouraging. My back was pretty much on fire on any uphill, and my L triceps pretty sore by the end. Not sure how I am going to get myself ready for the trip to Sicily.
Friday Jul 10, 2015 #
5 AM
Gym 55:00 [1]
slept:7.0 weight:165.4lbs
Rhonda's morning class. A bit sticky, and I was more than usually stiff, I guess after the bike path ride. Bike path is generally harder for me than the up and down I get closer to home. Perhaps the unvarying position and tempo is more stressful.
10 AM
cycling 1:27:00 [3] 20.0 mi (4:21 / mi)
With Rhonda from PV. Rode part of the way with Cindy, who was on a much longer excursion.
Thursday Jul 9, 2015 #
7 AM
Hike 25:00 [1] 2.3 km (10:52 / km)
slept:6.0 weight:165.8lbs shoes: 2011 NB MT840
Dog loop more or less, with R&S. FDFs out in force. 3/4 of the way around I am jogging a bit with Sassy and see a handsome-looking bear up ahead, then another partially hidden in the leaves of a tree maybe 10-15 feet up. Sassy goes off in sharp pursuit, but puts the brakes on when the bear doesn't run away. So we decide on another route, and I start running that way, which gives Sassy a way to withdraw without losing her dignity.
4 PM
cycling 1:51:13 24.54 mi (4:32 / mi) +266m 4:23 / mi
ahr:112 max:161
Bike path ride with Zack. He got a pretty spectacular blowout flat about midway. We put a new tube in, but the tire is toast. Lucky to make it back. I was surprised and impressed with how nice the bike path is from Collinsville to Unionville and Farmington. All repaved, nice grassy borders.
Wednesday Jul 8, 2015 #
5 PM
Running 34:29 2.67 mi (12:55 / mi) +101m 11:33 / mi
ahr:135 max:148 slept:6.25 weight:166.2lbs shoes: 2014 gel kayano
Short excursion at Mashamoquet on the way back from the rate hearing in RI. One tumble on a wet bridge, but glad to get out.
Tuesday Jul 7, 2015 #
Note
slept:7.5 weight:164.2lbs
Long day in RI at the Direct Pay rate hearing.
Monday Jul 6, 2015 #
5 AM
Gym 50:00 [1]
slept:6.5 weight:164lbs
Rhonda's morning class
8 AM
Note
Round two with the arborist. Today they cut some dying maples and hemlocks near the deck, cleaned the deadwood and cabled the big red oak on the S side of the house, helped me clean up the mess from the pine from last week, chipping a giant bunch of limbs and saplings and stuff in what seemed like minutes, and took down a dead sugar maple and a dying tulip poplar near the driveway. Fine entertainment.
Sunday Jul 5, 2015 #
8 AM
Hike 1:15:56 4.3 km (17:40 / km) +87m 16:03 / km
ahr:81 max:115 slept:7.25
Lovely hike at Cedar Tree Neck with Rhonda and Isabel. We hadn't been here in over 20 years, since we lived here. White trail down to the beach, where we saw deer tracks and piping plovers. Had to backtrack to avoid beach area that was roped off for the plovers, and then came around through the woods to the other side. Saw a bunch of tiny piping plover chicks with the parents. Don't think I have ever seen the chicks before when they were so small. Many birds are full size by the time they leave the nest, but these guys are tiny. We also saw a group of 4 goats that have been rented to clear underbrush. Alas, not an option for Ratlum because mountain laurel would be toxic for them.
Saturday Jul 4, 2015 #
8 AM
Running 37:37 3.32 mi (11:20 / mi) +6m 11:16 / mi
ahr:122 max:137 slept:9.0 shoes: 2014 gel kayano
From Peter and Isabel's on trails with Rhonda, finding the old sand pit, Old Holmes Hole Road (not a road, but a bit wider path) past where Whippoorwill Farm has expanded and put in a giant solar array, and down to the West Tisbury School, now bigger than the high school was when we lived here. And then back again. A fine route.
Friday Jul 3, 2015 #
7 AM
Hike 1:00:00 [3] 4.0 mi (15:00 / mi)
slept:6.75
A walk on paths from Peter and Isabel's in West Tisbury with Rhonda. Sure has been a lot of development here since we moved away. As the crow flies, Peter's place is only about 200 yds away from our old house, but about 2 miles by road.
Thursday Jul 2, 2015 #
3 AM
Note
slept:7.0 weight:166lbs
Walking the dog before leaving for the Vineyard. Full moon, a couple of fireflies. Those are a rare sight these days.
Wednesday Jul 1, 2015 #
Gym 50:00 [3]
slept:6.0 weight:165.4lbs
Rhonda's morning class
6 PM
Note
Another chainsaw session, working on dismantling the big pine with Zack. I realized when I was done is that this is what is stressing my L forearm now, so good that I will be away from it for a week.