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Monday Apr 30, 2012 #
pedaling (unicycle) 1:08:09 [2] 9.37 km (7:16 / km)
For a change of scenery, I rode down Northfield to Mass Ave to Arbor to the end and back. This was a step into the more daring side of things, because it involved about a km in each direction on Rte. 2A, rather than the sleepy neighborhood streets I usually stick to. This meant some cars going by at higher speeds, and some people honking the horn or hollering something unintelligble (why?). The scariest things were actually on Arbor St,: school buses. They're big, they're noisy, they go fast, and the street is narrow. But at least they're full of little kids who are totally delighted by the spectacle and all rush to look out the back window.
Took me forever to get started, must have been at least a dozen tries. I made it all the way to Page St. nonstop, then I had to take a break for a minute and a half due to numbness in my nether regions. On the way back, I had a dismount on a short steep bit on Arbor, and pushed it to the top of the rise. Then at Townsend Harbor Rd., there were cars coming, so I made a right and figured I'd turn around when the cars went by, but there were enough of them that I got fed up and got off and waited. Then I had a couple more dismounts on Northfield. So not the longest single continuous ride, but I think it's my longest ever unicycle outing.
Took me forever to get started, must have been at least a dozen tries. I made it all the way to Page St. nonstop, then I had to take a break for a minute and a half due to numbness in my nether regions. On the way back, I had a dismount on a short steep bit on Arbor, and pushed it to the top of the rise. Then at Townsend Harbor Rd., there were cars coming, so I made a right and figured I'd turn around when the cars went by, but there were enough of them that I got fed up and got off and waited. Then I had a couple more dismounts on Northfield. So not the longest single continuous ride, but I think it's my longest ever unicycle outing.
Sunday Apr 29, 2012 #
orienteering race 2:10:20 [4] *** 12.66 km (10:18 / km) +600m 8:19 / km
spiked:22/25c shoes: VJ Integrator #3
34th Annual Billygoat (my 28th), Moreau Lake State Park.
After a pretty spectacular drive through rural Vermont (which Nancy didn't enjoy very much because she was trying to catch on on sleep and the roads were very curvy), it was also perfect weather for the Goat.
With a small bunch for the first couple of controls, then with a few people off and on for the next few, until I linked up with Ernst at #8 and the two of us were together through #17. Navigation pretty clean, nothing more than a few seconds here and there. Then while skipping #18, everything was great for the first 2/3 of the leg, but then we veered waaaay too far to the left and off into oblivion. I basically ended up relocating on the lake, and lost five minutes (all that I saved by skipping 18), and things went even worse for Ernst. That put me in a pack consisting of Joe Brautigam, Joe Mok, and the Breton girls. We caught Marty Hawkes-Teeter near the end, and I wound up in the middle of the bunch, between Anna and Elina. 29th place, which ain't too bad.
After a pretty spectacular drive through rural Vermont (which Nancy didn't enjoy very much because she was trying to catch on on sleep and the roads were very curvy), it was also perfect weather for the Goat.
With a small bunch for the first couple of controls, then with a few people off and on for the next few, until I linked up with Ernst at #8 and the two of us were together through #17. Navigation pretty clean, nothing more than a few seconds here and there. Then while skipping #18, everything was great for the first 2/3 of the leg, but then we veered waaaay too far to the left and off into oblivion. I basically ended up relocating on the lake, and lost five minutes (all that I saved by skipping 18), and things went even worse for Ernst. That put me in a pack consisting of Joe Brautigam, Joe Mok, and the Breton girls. We caught Marty Hawkes-Teeter near the end, and I wound up in the middle of the bunch, between Anna and Elina. 29th place, which ain't too bad.
Saturday Apr 28, 2012 #
running (woods) 32:38 [2] 5.0 km (6:32 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Across Holman, relaxed pace. Down to the berm, then I crossed the brook and worked my way upstream. Watch out for barbed wire -- it caught me in the ankle, but I missed the barbs. Came out behind the highway department, crossed back over, and wandered around in the woods until I hit a trail, and that connected back to the original trail. If, in my dotage, I ever make a map of the town forest, then if Sandra Lane really wills the bulk of her property to the town, this piece of forest should definitely be included on the map. It's a charming bit of woods. This would also solve the parking issue, because if the Holman Street bridge never gets repaired (and I doubt it will), then the street south of the bridge could be used as a parking lot. She doesn't own all of the land I was running on, though. After 200-300 meters, it's another owner who recently granted a conservation restriction to some nonprofit outfit but retained ownership of the property, and did not grant public access. But maybe they could be persuaded to allow orienteering. Not likely a near-term project, in any case.
Friday Apr 27, 2012 #
exercises 3:50 [5]
25 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats, 25 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats.
Thursday Apr 26, 2012 #
running (woods) 37:59 [3] 6.5 km (5:51 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Shorter Mystery Blazes. About 60 F and gloomy, and around the time I crossed the power line trail it started to shower. I wanted some variety, so I turned right at the top of the hill for different scenery.
Wednesday Apr 25, 2012 #
exercises 3:50 [5]
25 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats, 25 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats.
Tuesday Apr 24, 2012 #
running (trails) 32:40 [3] 5.4 km (6:03 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
A little something, a little something... I tried the trails across Holman again, this time with my glasses, but the same thing happened -- the main trail seems to dead-end at Mulpus Brook (on what might be an ancient dam berm) with no sign of continuing in any direction. Mysterious as to why it would appear to be worn-in if there's nowhere to go. I explored some small singletracks, which were largely wet or grown in, and one of which came out at the back of a horse pasture, then loped through the woods for a little while until I got back to the main trail. Distance is a guess.
Monday Apr 23, 2012 #
running (pavement) 1:15:38 [3] 8.1 mi (9:20 / mi) +196m 8:41 / mi
shoes: Wal*Mart Carson
Lunenburg Project #14.
Northfield Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Arbor St.
-> Pine St.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Elmwood Dr.
-> "Fairlane Dr."
<-> Mass Ave.
-> The Ln.
-> Elmwood Dr.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Pine St.
-> Arbor St.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Northfield Rd.
It looked like the much-needed rain had let up, but just as I was getting ready to go out, it started again. So... I put on my crappy old hang gliding sneakers and went out anyway. Working on the roads project was the original plan anyway since I expected that the woods would be wet. Line Road is a fiction -- Elmwood basically stops at Flat Hill Orchards, and it's just a jeep trail after that. Maybe there's a Line Rd. in Shirley, or maybe it's just a shared driveway. Then there's a wide ride along the east edge of the orchard that feeds into the top of Fairlane Drive, which is just the name of the road in Jerry Benson's trailer park -- it has a street sign, but it doesn't appear to be one put up by the town (and it doesn't show up in the street directory). Good solid town line on Rte. 2A, with a state sign and a stone survey monument.
Northfield Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Arbor St.
-> Pine St.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Elmwood Dr.
-> "Fairlane Dr."
<-> Mass Ave.
-> The Ln.
-> Elmwood Dr.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Pine St.
-> Arbor St.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Northfield Rd.
It looked like the much-needed rain had let up, but just as I was getting ready to go out, it started again. So... I put on my crappy old hang gliding sneakers and went out anyway. Working on the roads project was the original plan anyway since I expected that the woods would be wet. Line Road is a fiction -- Elmwood basically stops at Flat Hill Orchards, and it's just a jeep trail after that. Maybe there's a Line Rd. in Shirley, or maybe it's just a shared driveway. Then there's a wide ride along the east edge of the orchard that feeds into the top of Fairlane Drive, which is just the name of the road in Jerry Benson's trailer park -- it has a street sign, but it doesn't appear to be one put up by the town (and it doesn't show up in the street directory). Good solid town line on Rte. 2A, with a state sign and a stone survey monument.
2 PM
running 1:15:38 [3] 13.06 km (5:47 / km) +147m 5:29 / km
Sunday Apr 22, 2012 #
exercises 1:25 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups. Essentially a rest day (but not quite!), neglected to even do the squats.
Saturday Apr 21, 2012 #
orienteering race 1:51:08 [3] *** 8.12 km (13:41 / km) +295m 11:35 / km
spiked:17/20c shoes: Nike Initiator
Nottingcook Forest, Blue. Pretty hot (somewhere in the 80s), and it was a challenging course, nobody broke 11 min/km. Forgot my O-shoes, so I did this in running shoes, which was tolerable, just a few moments of sliding on steep slopes. There was a lot of walking involved. The main oopsies were #5 (fooled by extra unmapped logging trails), #9 (drifted off to the right), and #16 (bad execution, drifted waaay right. My execution on #7 was also pretty lame, and my route midway looks pretty weird, though I salvaged a halfway decent leg out of it. I'm rather impressed that Nancy managed to get around this whole course as well. Good job!
Friday Apr 20, 2012 #
running (trails) 25:46 [2] 4.0 km (6:27 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Just wanted an easy cruise in the woods to unwind from spending the whole morning in a job interview, so I tried something new that worked out okay. Crossed the street, and went out the Lane trail to the Holman St. bridge, then went uphill a bit and found a trail on the other side. I assume this is what the snowmobilers used to use before that route became off-limits. Very pretty winding trail through some nice and intricate woods, until it seemed to come to an abrupt end at Mulpus Brook. I probably missed a turn in there somewhere, and I'll have to go back with my glasses on to see if it continues. Distance is a wild guess.
Thursday Apr 19, 2012 #
running 40:33 [4] 7.0 km (5:48 / km)
Mystery Blazes LSwamp. Nice day, blue sky, temps in the lower 70s. I have a number of things on my mind, which caused me just enough stress to keep pushing pretty hard the whole way around. A bunch of people I know went flying today, and I imagine they're in the air right now, but I had stuff I needed to get done.
Wednesday Apr 18, 2012 #
hiking (pavement) 37:37 [1] 2.4 mi (15:41 / mi)
Walking to the ConComm meeting and back. I've been chairing the meetings for the last couple of months. We approved the Order of Conditions for the Pleasant Street solar farm, and the abutters are livid. They had brought along some lunatic "expert" who came up from the Cape for each of the meetings and made speeches, and at the end of this meeting she spouted off basically accusing us of incompetence and malfeasance and stormed off in a huff. There may be some basis for disallowing this project, but it's not on wetlands grounds -- we've held the applicant to as stringent a standard as we have for other projects, and the proposed work is really benign as far as our jurisdiction goes. But the neighbors don't want all these solar panels in what has been a hayfield adjacent to their homes, and they expect us to be a stumbling block to the project on their behalf. Maybe there will be a zoning/bylaws issue that will halt the project, and they can get satisfaction that way.
Tuesday Apr 17, 2012 #
hiking 50:22 [1] 2.0 mi (25:11 / mi) +170m 19:55 / mi
Hiking up to the Flume Gorge and back with Nancy. It's off-season, so the place is closed, which means we didn't need to pay admission, and also means that we didn't get to walk all the way through the gorge because the boardwalk is in the process of being put back in place for the season, but we could see enough to satisfy us.
Monday Apr 16, 2012 #
hiking 3:36:00 [1] 6.2 mi (34:50 / mi) +400m 29:01 / mi
shoes: Nike Initiator
With Nancy at Franconia Notch. Starting from The Basin, up the Basin Cascades Trail to the Cascade Brook Trail, hung out at Lonesome Lake Hut for a while then went down the Lonesome Lake Trail to the Lafayette Campground, then the Pemi Trail back to the car. Pretty warm day, and there was a surprising amount of snow still in the woods.
Maybe the water level was high as a result (unlike most water levels right now), but in any case the stream crossings, especially the one where the bridge got washed out, were kind of interesting. For that one Nancy took off her shoes and used a couple of sticks for balance to wade through thigh-deep swift frigid water. I opted for an alternate route where I could leap between stepping stones. Quite an awesome day to be outdoors.
Maybe the water level was high as a result (unlike most water levels right now), but in any case the stream crossings, especially the one where the bridge got washed out, were kind of interesting. For that one Nancy took off her shoes and used a couple of sticks for balance to wade through thigh-deep swift frigid water. I opted for an alternate route where I could leap between stepping stones. Quite an awesome day to be outdoors.
Sunday Apr 15, 2012 #
orienteering race 1:16:25 [3] *** 6.92 km (11:03 / km)
spiked:19/21c shoes: VJ Integrator #3
College Woods Red. Third place, about 8 minutes behind Alar and one minute behind Jeff. Pretty warm out.
Saturday Apr 14, 2012 #
running 3:37 [3] 0.72 km (5:01 / km)
shoes: Nike Initiator
Running from Ducky's LZ back to the manure pile to get Jeff's car. Ain't much in terms of exercise, but after just shy of 4 1/2 hours of flying (personal record), at least it was something.
Friday Apr 13, 2012 #
orienteering 1:53:52 [3] **** 8.63 km (13:11 / km) +300m 11:14 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Controls 1-13 from the 1994 Billygoat at Townsend. I only copied the first 13 onto my map because after that it got into the area where I was pretty sure that the vegetation was going to be too crappy to be any fun. I did take some routes that were clearly not optimal, in the interest of doing more in-the-woods navigation rather than running trails. I was hoping to be able to keep all of my splits under twice the time from 1994. I had some advantages and disadvantages:
D: I'm now 50 instead of 32.
A: The weather was great today.
D: I had presumably prepared in some manner back in 1994.
A: No black flies today.
D: No pack navigation tactics.
A: Rather than actually "finding" the "controls", I merely had to satisfy myself that I was within some reasonable radius of the control feature.
D: The woods have gotten somewhat trashier.
A: I've learned a lot in the interim.
D: I've forgotten a lot in the interim.
A: I didn't have to save anything for the remaining eight controls.
D: Far less motivation.
D: No water stops.
D: Fading eyesight (which, combined with the undersized symbols -- I was using an old offset-printed map -- meant that I really couldn't see things like boulders at all).
D: On one leg, part of the terrain I went through has been bulldozed
So, the results:
1) 7:27, 4:25, 169%
2) 5:31, 4:09, 133%
3) 21:31, 15:21, 140%
4) 7:28, 3:55, 191%
5) 10:55, 8:26, 129%
6) 6:35, 6:00, 110%
7) 9:18, 10:02, 93%
8) 5:43, 3:32, 162%
9) 8:26, 8:29, 99%
10) 3:11, 3:35, 89%
11) 12:29, 10:45, 116%
12) 6:31, 4:51, 134%
13) 8:48, 6:44, 131%
total) 113:52, 90:14, 126%
So, not too bad at all. Bottom line in 1994: 17th place, and I beat PG. Bottom line today, 1st place, and PG was a DNS. Can't complain, sure was a lot better than the pointless round trip to North Adams to find out it was too windy to fly that preceded this. But what do you expect for Friday the 13th?
D: I'm now 50 instead of 32.
A: The weather was great today.
D: I had presumably prepared in some manner back in 1994.
A: No black flies today.
D: No pack navigation tactics.
A: Rather than actually "finding" the "controls", I merely had to satisfy myself that I was within some reasonable radius of the control feature.
D: The woods have gotten somewhat trashier.
A: I've learned a lot in the interim.
D: I've forgotten a lot in the interim.
A: I didn't have to save anything for the remaining eight controls.
D: Far less motivation.
D: No water stops.
D: Fading eyesight (which, combined with the undersized symbols -- I was using an old offset-printed map -- meant that I really couldn't see things like boulders at all).
D: On one leg, part of the terrain I went through has been bulldozed
So, the results:
1) 7:27, 4:25, 169%
2) 5:31, 4:09, 133%
3) 21:31, 15:21, 140%
4) 7:28, 3:55, 191%
5) 10:55, 8:26, 129%
6) 6:35, 6:00, 110%
7) 9:18, 10:02, 93%
8) 5:43, 3:32, 162%
9) 8:26, 8:29, 99%
10) 3:11, 3:35, 89%
11) 12:29, 10:45, 116%
12) 6:31, 4:51, 134%
13) 8:48, 6:44, 131%
total) 113:52, 90:14, 126%
So, not too bad at all. Bottom line in 1994: 17th place, and I beat PG. Bottom line today, 1st place, and PG was a DNS. Can't complain, sure was a lot better than the pointless round trip to North Adams to find out it was too windy to fly that preceded this. But what do you expect for Friday the 13th?
running 11:52 [3] 2.3 km (5:10 / km)
shoes: Nike Initiator
Back to Dudley Rd.
Thursday Apr 12, 2012 #
exercises 1:50 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats. Pathetic.
Wednesday Apr 11, 2012 #
exercises 5:30 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats, 20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats, 20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats.
Tuesday Apr 10, 2012 #
running (pavement) 1:57:03 [3] 11.84 mi (9:53 / mi) +265m 9:15 / mi
shoes: Nike Initiator
Lunenburg Project #13.
Northfield Rd.
-> West Townsend Rd.
-> Howard St.
<-> Sequoia Dr.
<-> New West Townsend Rd.
-> detour through the woods
-> Stewart Rd. (Fitchburg)
-> New West Townsend Rd.
<-> Northfield Rd.
<-> Old Stagecoach Rd.
<-> Old Farm Rd.
-> Northfield Rd.
Breezy, and a little cool in a T-shirt when I started, but after not long it was fine. I had been eyeing this run for a while. This knocks off the whole north border of town except for Seaver Road. The north border on New West Townsend Road had a granite monument, so that was easy to spot. Lunenburg borders on Ashby, but there are no roads that cross the border, and it looks like you have to cross a marsh to get to the town line from a paved road except for one place that's in the back yard of a house. There was one other hope, at the spot where Lunenburg, Ashby, and Fitchburg meet. I made an attempt to get to that spot, but I didn't memorize it properly, so I didn't look in the right spot for a monument, but I suspect the right spot may be under water. I'm pretty sure I did set foot in Ashby, but I got there from Fitchburg, about 80 meters from the nearest point in Lunenburg. Next time I'm up in that area to run Willard Brook SE, I'll stop and take another look for a monument. I wasn't sure if Old Stagecoach Road was going to be real (and I was kind of hoping it wasn't, but it turned out to be a road that had at one time been paved). It looked pretty hillbilly for the first bit, but then there was a very nice house, and I kept on going after that, but wasn't sure how far to pursue it. I finally turned around where the phone wires stopped, the road became impassable by car, and there were a couple of completely flattened buildings (doesn't look like they've been that way for particularly long). This also completes Northfield Road, the street that I live on.
Northfield Rd.
-> West Townsend Rd.
-> Howard St.
<-> Sequoia Dr.
<-> New West Townsend Rd.
-> detour through the woods
-> Stewart Rd. (Fitchburg)
-> New West Townsend Rd.
<-> Northfield Rd.
<-> Old Stagecoach Rd.
<-> Old Farm Rd.
-> Northfield Rd.
Breezy, and a little cool in a T-shirt when I started, but after not long it was fine. I had been eyeing this run for a while. This knocks off the whole north border of town except for Seaver Road. The north border on New West Townsend Road had a granite monument, so that was easy to spot. Lunenburg borders on Ashby, but there are no roads that cross the border, and it looks like you have to cross a marsh to get to the town line from a paved road except for one place that's in the back yard of a house. There was one other hope, at the spot where Lunenburg, Ashby, and Fitchburg meet. I made an attempt to get to that spot, but I didn't memorize it properly, so I didn't look in the right spot for a monument, but I suspect the right spot may be under water. I'm pretty sure I did set foot in Ashby, but I got there from Fitchburg, about 80 meters from the nearest point in Lunenburg. Next time I'm up in that area to run Willard Brook SE, I'll stop and take another look for a monument. I wasn't sure if Old Stagecoach Road was going to be real (and I was kind of hoping it wasn't, but it turned out to be a road that had at one time been paved). It looked pretty hillbilly for the first bit, but then there was a very nice house, and I kept on going after that, but wasn't sure how far to pursue it. I finally turned around where the phone wires stopped, the road became impassable by car, and there were a couple of completely flattened buildings (doesn't look like they've been that way for particularly long). This also completes Northfield Road, the street that I live on.
1 PM
running 1:59:14 [3] 19.09 km (6:15 / km) +254m 5:51 / km
Monday Apr 9, 2012 #
running (woods) 41:13 [3] 7.0 km (5:53 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Mystery Blazes, via the L Swamp trail, which I'm guessing adds a couple of hundred meters. Temp in the low 50s, and pretty windy, though that's not an issue down in the woods. Decent time.
Sunday Apr 8, 2012 #
exercises 1:55 [5]
25 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats.
Saturday Apr 7, 2012 #
orienteering race 1:02:12 [3] *** 6.2 km (10:02 / km) +275m 8:13 / km
spiked:19/21c shoes: VJ Integrator #3
Red course (on map with no trails) at Sessions Woods. Pretty clean, just:
- a hesitation on #4, wondering if one of the numerous unmapped rocks was the one I was looking for
- bad execution on #6, ineptly trying to follow contours instead of going by compass, which swung me so wide that I almost went by #13 before correcting, and
- big clerical error on #19: I was on my way from 20 to 21 when I noticed that there was a 19, and I hadn't been to it, so I had to go up the hill again, which was probably about a 90-second mistake.
I think I wound up in about 7th or 8th place, but it was packed in pretty close at the top -- I think I was less than 5 minutes behind Clint in first place. Very nice course; I don't care for butterflies, but it kept us in the part of the map that I like, and I didn't mind repeatedly climbing the hill. Not having trails was disconcerting on the first leg, but after that I didn't even think about it. And true to the orienteerig spirit, I got a little beat up: a couple of good scratches on one arm, a bruise on one thigh, and I remember bashing one of my feet pretty solidly, but I can't remember which one it was.
- a hesitation on #4, wondering if one of the numerous unmapped rocks was the one I was looking for
- bad execution on #6, ineptly trying to follow contours instead of going by compass, which swung me so wide that I almost went by #13 before correcting, and
- big clerical error on #19: I was on my way from 20 to 21 when I noticed that there was a 19, and I hadn't been to it, so I had to go up the hill again, which was probably about a 90-second mistake.
I think I wound up in about 7th or 8th place, but it was packed in pretty close at the top -- I think I was less than 5 minutes behind Clint in first place. Very nice course; I don't care for butterflies, but it kept us in the part of the map that I like, and I didn't mind repeatedly climbing the hill. Not having trails was disconcerting on the first leg, but after that I didn't even think about it. And true to the orienteerig spirit, I got a little beat up: a couple of good scratches on one arm, a bruise on one thigh, and I remember bashing one of my feet pretty solidly, but I can't remember which one it was.
Friday Apr 6, 2012 #
pedaling (unicycle) 45:45 [2] 3.9 mi (11:44 / mi)
Holman-Highland figure-8, fairly breezy and gusty. One dismount when I was looking at my watch and got too close to the shoulder. There's a little extra distance that I didn't add in, because I got a little way down the street before remembering that the GPS was sitting on the deck railing, where I had put it to "warm up". I've gotten good enough at this that occasionally my mind wanders and I kind of forget that I'm unicycling.
Thursday Apr 5, 2012 #
running (pavement) 50:36 [3] 5.3 mi (9:33 / mi)
shoes: Nike Initiator
Lunenburg Project #12.
Northfield Rd.
-> Oak St.
-> Main St.
-> Memorial Dr.
-> Mass. Ave.
<-> Hillside Dr.
<-> Mass Ave.
-> Whiting St.
-> Leominster Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Memorial Dr.
-> Main St.
-> Highland St.
-> Northfield Rd.
Just cleaning up some bits and pieces close to home. Hillside Drive is another one of those streets that it's easy to overlook, but at least its name makes more sense than Hilltop Lane. Another very nice day to get outside. Looks like the GPS got pretty loopy at the end of the run, pretty strange, so I'm logging the distance from gmap-pedometer instead.
Northfield Rd.
-> Oak St.
-> Main St.
-> Memorial Dr.
-> Mass. Ave.
<-> Hillside Dr.
<-> Mass Ave.
-> Whiting St.
-> Leominster Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Memorial Dr.
-> Main St.
-> Highland St.
-> Northfield Rd.
Just cleaning up some bits and pieces close to home. Hillside Drive is another one of those streets that it's easy to overlook, but at least its name makes more sense than Hilltop Lane. Another very nice day to get outside. Looks like the GPS got pretty loopy at the end of the run, pretty strange, so I'm logging the distance from gmap-pedometer instead.
1 PM
running 50:36 [3] 8.98 km (5:38 / km) +89m 5:22 / km
Wednesday Apr 4, 2012 #
exercises 3:40 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats, 20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats.
Tuesday Apr 3, 2012 #
running (trails) 38:41 [3] 3.78 mi (10:14 / mi)
shoes: Nike Initiator
The Big Event. I think this is called "The Usual Trails" or "Seven Hills Loop Marked Down to Two" or something along those lines. Successful, in the sense that I was able to keep up with PG as he went for a casual jog.
Interesting to compare the two GPS tracks. I see pretty good agreement, but they certainly aren't carbon copies, even though I was almost always close enough to poke him with a yardstick. The distances disagree by 0.2 miles, which is quite a bit over this distance (5%). I assume his 305 was recording at 1-second intervals, while my datalogger was doing 3-second intervals. Mine shows a pause at 29:29, while his does not -- the pause was real, and I believe he stopped his watch and restarted it when we turned around at the platform. At least one of these GPS devices would be pretty useless for navigating.
Interesting to compare the two GPS tracks. I see pretty good agreement, but they certainly aren't carbon copies, even though I was almost always close enough to poke him with a yardstick. The distances disagree by 0.2 miles, which is quite a bit over this distance (5%). I assume his 305 was recording at 1-second intervals, while my datalogger was doing 3-second intervals. Mine shows a pause at 29:29, while his does not -- the pause was real, and I believe he stopped his watch and restarted it when we turned around at the platform. At least one of these GPS devices would be pretty useless for navigating.
Monday Apr 2, 2012 #
running (woods) 50:30 [3] 4.6 mi (10:59 / mi)
shoes: Nike Initiator
ES Koorb Dralliw, going further down the power line at the north end, past the trail, and then through the woods to get back to the turn from the lower trail. Pretty nice woods in there, an intricate and interesting mixture of white, laurel, and young pines, that was quite runnable. During the run, I was unable to decide whether I had done it before or not. Sometimes I was sure I had, other times I was sure that I hadn't. Turns out that I did, on Feb 1, but there was some snow on the ground then, so maybe that made it look different. Same temperature today as then, but I wore a SS t-shirt under the LS one, and that was a bit to much. My time today was two minutes slower, which the extra distance at the north end accounts for, though maybe running in the snow would be slower?
So, you embark on a training program, and you stick to it, and if things work out it gets you in better shape, and inevitably the event that you've been training for arrives. The time has come, we'll see how it goes.
So, you embark on a training program, and you stick to it, and if things work out it gets you in better shape, and inevitably the event that you've been training for arrives. The time has come, we'll see how it goes.
Sunday Apr 1, 2012 #
exercises 1:50 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats. Plus I managed to repack my parachute, shuttle Stephen from Manchester to Westford, catch the tail end of Barb's birthday party, and pick up my mother in West Lebabnon, NH.