Training Log Archive: CleverSkyIn the 28 days ending Feb 28, 2018:
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Wednesday Feb 28, 2018 #
exercises 1:20 [5]
80 situps.
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018 #
11 PM
exercises 11 [5]
11 ring pullups. Started a 12th one, but I didn't have it in me.
Monday Feb 26, 2018 #
11 PM
exercises 1:20 [5]
80 situps
Sunday Feb 25, 2018 #
11 AM
alpine skiing 1:35:54 [0] 20.09 km (4:46 / km) +2474m 2:57 / km
Sunday River, with Nancy, six runs. Snowing pretty hard all day, conditions were a couple of inches of loose powder on top of an ice base. Not too bad except on a few steep spots. Temperature in the 20s, I think, so fairly comfortable, though visibility was restricted (no views). Today was a tour of the western parts that hadn't been open on the previous days. We stuck together except for one ill-advised excursion that I made through the woods on the lower part of Blind Ambition, which was pretty thin and I had to wander a bit to find a way cown when I found myself stuck behind an area of stumps and sticks. I also managed to gouge the bottom of one of my skis when I was on the side of a trail on what proved to be thin new cover over some rocks. There was some pretty flat traversing in here, on Kansas and Cowardly Lion. Not much was open in the Oz area, and the top of the Oz lift was the site of a mishap, as they had the exit ramp set up poory, and the chair came around and smacked Nancy, sending her to the ground.
alpine skiing 1:12:03 [0] 11.75 km (6:08 / km) +1120m 4:09 / km
After a snack, five more runs, completing our tour of hitting every lift this weekend. There actually are five downhill sections in here, despite the fact that one of the lift rides (Jordan Mountain Double) ends up lower than it starts in the direction that we rode it. Stayed together except for one run, where I did Quantum Leap and Nancy did an easier trail. Started sleeting at one point, and at the end we were both having trouble seeing out of our goggles. Conditions were quite a contrast to two weeks ago when everyting was moguls: this weekend, we only started find a few bumps at the very end.
Saturday Feb 24, 2018 #
11 AM
alpine skiing 2:10:38 [0] 20.34 km (6:25 / km) +2700m 3:52 / km
Sunday River, with Nancy. Spring conditions, temps probably in the 40s, but with a pretty good wind up top. Didn't have to dress all that warmly. Trails were icy in spots, and soft loose granular in others. Seven runs before a snack.
alpine skiing 1:59:32 [0] 19.27 km (6:12 / km) +2431m 3:48 / km
Seven more runs before my watch ran out of juice.
4 PM
alpine skiing 30:00 [0]
Three more, including one trip up the magic carpet lift, before grabbing a sandwich.
5 PM
alpine skiing 50:00 [0]
And since this place stays open late, three more under the lights, after they had done a grooming pass.
Friday Feb 23, 2018 #
7 PM
exercises 1:50 [5]
80 situps, 30 pushups.
Thursday Feb 22, 2018 #
exercises 1:20 [5]
80 situps. 10000 miles on the new car as of today.
Wednesday Feb 21, 2018 #
7 PM
running (trails) 40:16 [3] 4.36 km (9:14 / km) +96m 8:19 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Singletrack in Wilard Brook SE, In The Dark. Temperature was still in the 60s, so it was T-shirt weather even at this hour. Picked this run because it seemed like it might drain better than other places, and it may well have been the best choice, but there were still a lot of puddles. Had a few hesitations when it wasn't clear which way the trail went.
I am a crazy old man who goes running around in the woods at night...
I am a crazy old man who goes running around in the woods at night...
Tuesday Feb 20, 2018 #
11 PM
exercises 1:20 [5]
80 situps. And there was no snow to deal with in my driveway, because when I got home after a day that hit 70F in Boston, there was none to be seen. But I also did something I'd been meaning to for a few days. On the run that I did, there was a very branchy tree that had fallen across the trail leading from Gilchrest St., so I went down there with a headlamp, a bow saw, and a pair of loppers, and sliced a piece out of the middle to open the path back up.
Monday Feb 19, 2018 #
1 PM
Note
Snow dealings, round 7a: Nancy's driveway. After arriving back here at about 4:30 AM by car (I did most of the driving, because Nancy had to work today), we found much more snow than expected in her driveway. So I dropped her off at work and came back and gave it a pass with the electric snowblower, because it doesn't get much sun. As for my own driveway, I haven't been home yet, but my inclination is to just say screw it because it's supposed to be 60F tomorrow and 70F the day after that.
4 PM
hiking (pavement) 1:39:27 [1] 10.41 km (9:33 / km) +68m 9:15 / km
shoes: GoLite Blaze Lite
Didn't have any running clothes with me, and I needed to pick Nancy up after work, so I wasn't that motivated to go home to get stuff to wear on a run through the slushy, muddy woods. Instead I just went for a brisk walk on the roads near her house. Pretty consistent speed, the only slowdowns were where I stopped briefly to read a sign, and when I went off the end of Milot Rd. and was walking at first in snow, and then on railroad ties. Pretty dark by the time I was done (~6:30).
Sunday Feb 18, 2018 #
9 AM
exercises 1:31 [5]
70 situps, 25 pushups.
Saturday Feb 17, 2018 #
Note
A day that did not go the way I planned or expected, and that really left no time for exercise. Woke up at 4 AM in order to catch a plane to Washington DC, so I could go to see the new Black Panther movie in Viginia. My phone only made it far as Newark, though, and I spent the afternoon and evening hanging around in brewpubs.
Friday Feb 16, 2018 #
8 PM
exercises 1:20 [5]
70 situps, 10 ring pullups. Didn't have 11 in me today.
Thursday Feb 15, 2018 #
8 PM
exercises 1:21 [5]
11 ring pullups, 70 situps.
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018 #
8 PM
running (trails) 46:02 [2] 5.43 km (8:29 / km) +76m 7:56 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Abbreviated Mystery Blazes loop, taking a right at the Powerline trail and heading directly to the esker. In The Dark. Although there's no snow up by the house, there was about a half inch of very old snow left down in the woods. The trails, however, were a different story, hard gray wet ice wherever there had been foot or snowmobile traffic (which was pretty much everywhere). Without spiked shoes, this would have been untenable, but it helped keep the intensity down where I wanted it, although I was briefly working fairly hard at the end on the way up the road. My headlamp didn't seem very bright (I did have it on the low setting), can't remember whether I've charged it recently.
122 days to Jukola. Got work to do, but it should be fine.
122 days to Jukola. Got work to do, but it should be fine.
Tuesday Feb 13, 2018 #
7 PM
exercises 1:21 [5]
11 ring pullups, 70 situps.
11 PM
exercises 25 [5]
25 pushups.
Monday Feb 12, 2018 #
11 PM
exercises 1:00 [5]
60 situps.
Sunday Feb 11, 2018 #
11 PM
exercises 1:00 [5]
60 situps.
Saturday Feb 10, 2018 #
8 AM
alpine skiing 2:27:42 [0] 23.74 km (6:13 / km) +3801m 3:27 / km
Loon, by myself. Nancy skipped work Friday morning to ski because she had to work Saturday, so I was on my own. Can't remember ever having gone downhill skiing alone before (except once when I was a kid and the neighbors I babysat for brought me but left me to ski on my own). I originally planned to go to Stratton, but the forecast there was to switch to rain, so I opted for a spot further north where it would remain as snow until at least late afternoon, and I believe I made the right choice. Hit the road early and arrived at the mountain just after 8 AM, and I lucked out and got the last parking spot in the main lot, which put me steps away from the ticket office and lift.
Nine runs before lunch, taking the opportunity to do the steep bump runs and glades that Nancy would not be interested in. My thighs felt tired and sore from the first run. Seemed like they didn't do much grooming, as there were even moguls on the blue trails. Very little waiting in lift lines as I was using the singles aisle. Light snow much of the day.
Nine runs before lunch, taking the opportunity to do the steep bump runs and glades that Nancy would not be interested in. My thighs felt tired and sore from the first run. Seemed like they didn't do much grooming, as there were even moguls on the blue trails. Very little waiting in lift lines as I was using the singles aisle. Light snow much of the day.
alpine skiing 2:54:32 [0] 30.39 km (5:45 / km) +4241m 3:23 / km
After some chili and hot chocolate, it was back to the slopes for as long as I could take it. Nine more runs, though this being Loon, two of the runs almost don't qualify because I count by lift rides, and the Tote Road lift is actually a horizontal transport to South Peak and back.
More of the same, plus one unintended adventure when I was heading down Boom Run and saw some tracks heading into the woods. There was a sign on a tree, and I couldn't read some of it, but one line said something like "enjoy some gentle downhill gliding". It appeared to be an old cart path that looked like it would probably connect back to Jobber, so I took it. For a while it did what I expected, but then it went uphill a bit, and the track stopped because the previous skiers had made a right and gone through the trees. Following suit looked like a bad move because that was Warren Miller territory and I was alone, so it would take a long time to find my body. Instead, I pressed forward, breaking trail through a foot of powder, with my poles not bottoming out. Took about 12 minutes to slog through that and get back out to a ski trail, but it will be easier going for the next dunce to follow my tracks.
It got pretty warm, up close to freezing (in the parking lot, anyway), but North Peak was in cloud. After one last woods run, I decided I'd had enough and the next run would be my last. Back to the car and on the road by 2:30 before any rain hit.
More of the same, plus one unintended adventure when I was heading down Boom Run and saw some tracks heading into the woods. There was a sign on a tree, and I couldn't read some of it, but one line said something like "enjoy some gentle downhill gliding". It appeared to be an old cart path that looked like it would probably connect back to Jobber, so I took it. For a while it did what I expected, but then it went uphill a bit, and the track stopped because the previous skiers had made a right and gone through the trees. Following suit looked like a bad move because that was Warren Miller territory and I was alone, so it would take a long time to find my body. Instead, I pressed forward, breaking trail through a foot of powder, with my poles not bottoming out. Took about 12 minutes to slog through that and get back out to a ski trail, but it will be easier going for the next dunce to follow my tracks.
It got pretty warm, up close to freezing (in the parking lot, anyway), but North Peak was in cloud. After one last woods run, I decided I'd had enough and the next run would be my last. Back to the car and on the road by 2:30 before any rain hit.
Friday Feb 9, 2018 #
10 PM
exercises 1:00 [5]
60 situps.
Thursday Feb 8, 2018 #
7 PM
Note
Snow dealings, round 6b: my driveway. Having given it enough chance to freeze up, as I arrived at home I had forgotten that I hadn't done my own driveway yet. So I parked by the mailbox and got out the snowblower which I ran up and down the driveway, but it had little effect on the boilerplate white stuff. The plow snow down by the road wasn't as bad as I feared, and I was able to handle it with a shovel, though much of that consisted of picking up big frozen chunks and tossing them aside.
10 PM
exercises 1:25 [5]
60 situps, 25 pushups.
Wednesday Feb 7, 2018 #
7 AM
skating (ice) 20:57 [2] 6.14 km (3:25 / km)
Bare Hill Pond, on my way to work. I decided to get up and make this happen, but then on my drive I noticed that the dusting of snow that fell yesterday and immediately melted actually stuck around where it fell on ice -- the lakes were all white. I headed down to the tiny token public access point in Harvard anyway, and it turned out (as I had hoped) that the snow was thin enough to be manageable. The ice was inconsistent, pretty bumpy in the NE near the beach, but not bad down in the south. They lower the water level in this lake a lot; the loop I was doing in the SW was as far as I could go, the rest of what looks like water in the aerial photo was actually frozen marsh. Not a very long outing, but at least I did it.
6 PM
Note
Snow dealings, round 6a: Nancy's driveway. Snow during the day transitioned to sleet/freezing rain/rain in the afternoon, and it was pretty wet and slushy when I got to her house in the evening, but the electric snowblower handled it fine. Leaving bare asphalt for the overnioght freezing rain to land on, leaving a nice thick shiny glaze by morning. So I sanded it.
Tuesday Feb 6, 2018 #
exercises 1:00 [5]
60 situps. I had aspirations of doing some skating at night, but when my evening trip to CT got extended by an accident-induced traffic jam that had me stuck on the Mass Pike onramp for something like 45 minutes, a lot of my enthusiasm evaporated.
Monday Feb 5, 2018 #
exercises 1:00 [5]
60 situps. Somewhat sore all over, but right arm particularly so, not sure if it's from double-poling or falling on it.
Sunday Feb 4, 2018 #
11 AM
alpine skiing 1:43:21 [0] 20.11 km (5:08 / km) +2257m 3:18 / km
Pico, with Nancy, had only been there once before, back in college. Warmer, but windy. Eight runs, including the first one where I did an almost complete yard sale (hung onto one pole) in a place where there was no real excuse for falling.
alpine skiing 1:29:26 [0] 19.83 km (4:31 / km) +1927m 3:02 / km
And after lunch, six more runs. It had been snowing some since early on, but by afternoon it was snowing pretty hard, so we were in several inches of fresh powder. I did a couple of forays through the woods, which was fun in those conditions. No lift lines all day, presumably due to people getting ready to watch football. Hit the road in a snowstorm, which the Subaru with snow tires handled just fine, and made it back to Nancy's house about an hour after the Super Bowl kickoff, partway through the second quarter.
Saturday Feb 3, 2018 #
11 AM
alpine skiing 1:16:16 [0] 14.55 km (5:15 / km) +1780m 3:15 / km
Killington, with Nancy, first time there since 1992, I think. Definitely on the cold side, but not as bad as Maine a month ago. Parked at the Skyeship Gondola and did four runs, the first three together and on the last one I did Outer Limits (a lot of ice, grass, and rocks, with low visibility due to snow guns) while Nancy did a different trail. Conditions were not the best, with a mixture of soft snow piles and areas scraped down to ice, and some crowding, not because there were that many people there (no long lift lines) but because a lot of the terrain wasn't open.
alpine skiing 1:03:14 [0] 8.78 km (7:12 / km) +976m 4:38 / km
After a litte warmup break, three more runs, the third of which involved going up a Poma lift, which is something that I maybe hadn't done since the 1970s.
3 PM
alpine skiing 1:04:31 [0] 14.82 km (4:21 / km) +1346m 3:00 / km
And after lunch three more runs, including the very long one back to the car.
Friday Feb 2, 2018 #
10 PM
exercises 25 [5]
25 pushups.
Thursday Feb 1, 2018 #
11 PM
exercises 1:00 [5]
60 situps.