Training Log Archive: CleverSkyIn the 30 days ending Nov 30, 2020:
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Monday Nov 30, 2020 #
7 AM
running (trails) 30:16 [3] 4.49 km (6:45 / km) +51m 6:23 / km
shoes: GoLite Blaze Lite
Across the street. If I didn't want to get soaked, the only choice was to get out early, so that's what I did. Maybe a good plan anyway, though I don't feel that energetic first thing in the morning.
Sunday Nov 29, 2020 #
2 PM
hiking (trails) 58:06 [1] 3.26 km (17:49 / km) +71m 16:04 / km
shoes: Oboz Sawtooth II
Jewell Hill, with Nancy, Matt and Rachel, and Stephen and Katie. Getting Rachel out for something like this was a major accomplishment, and she didn't even complain too much. Pleasant day, sunny and not too cold.
Saturday Nov 28, 2020 #
2 PM
pedaling (road bike) 53:35 [3] 21.75 km (2:28 / km) +247m 2:20 / km
After a sunny and warm (low to mid 50s F) morning, I headed out in the afternoon, and when I opened the garage door, it had just started to rain. Well, I had already decided that I was going to go for a bike ride, so I went anyway. After a few minutes I could see the sun up ahead and to my left, and blue sky off to my right, and the rain did let up, though I was dealing with wet pavement the wole way around. Temperature was in the mid 40s F at this point, and I was not regretting having worn an extra layer.
Friday Nov 27, 2020 #
2 PM
hiking (trails) 56:26 [1] 3.83 km (14:45 / km) +74m 13:27 / km
shoes: Oboz Sawtooth II
WBSE, a loop with Nancy.
Thursday Nov 26, 2020 #
5 PM
hiking (pavement) 31:48 [1] 2.9 km (10:59 / km) +45m 10:11 / km
shoes: Oboz Sawtooth II
Around the smallest block with Nancy, In The Dark. Light rain. This was after Thanksgiving dinner for two, but before I made a blueberry pie, which I think was a first for me, after having made numerous apple pies in the past. Came out okay. We had an extended family Zoom get-together with pie, 13 people on the call from five locations, although two of those locations were in my brother's house -- his older daughter is in quarantine in his office for a week after possible exposure.
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020 #
6 PM
running (trails) 41:05 [2] 5.63 km (7:18 / km) +26m 7:08 / km
shoes: GoLite Blaze Lite
Hunting Hill, In The Dark, Same kind of plan as yesterday except that I decided to go west instead of east. One difference was that when I was headed out across the field, there was a light behind me. It was coming from the house at the top of the hill, and it seemed to be sweeping the field. I turned off my headlamp, though I think my jacket has a bit of reflective stuff on it. Once I went back into the woods, I lit up again. I don't know the rules for that area; Lunenburg Conservation land is open 24 hours a day (thanks to my efforts), but Hunting Hill is governed by three different entities as a joint venture, and the situation may be different. Anyway, I clearly didn't know where I was going out there, because I thought I had looped around to the east, but it didn't matter because when I hit the extraction road in Small Town Forest, it was pretty obvious how to get back.
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020 #
5 PM
running (trails) 35:53 [2] 4.58 km (7:50 / km) +52m 7:25 / km
shoes: GoLite Blaze Lite
Hunting Hill, In The Dark. Temperature right around freezing, and I had the headlamp on the whole time because although the moon was pretty good, it wasn't enough to see the small trails (served as a convenient compass, though). I hadn't been up there in a long time, I really have no familiarity with the place. Last time I can remember being there was when I helped build the bridge, which is by now getting to be in pretty rough shape. My fondest memory was from over 20 years ago, shortly after I moved back from Colorado, and the place was in the process of becoming public land. I met some folks from the Shirley ConComm there to look at some stuff there, and at one point I wanted to look at something else on my own, so I said I'd be back and scooted off down a trail. I remember it was springtime, and it was broad daylight. Well, those folks froke out. When I got back to where I had left them, they weren't there, and later they told me that they were on the verge of calling for search parties to look for me. They related this to me when they got back to the cars, which was where I was waiting for them. (The whole process was probably something like 30 minutes.) Anyway, tonight it was dark, and I had only a quick glance at the OpenTopoMap trails in my head, so I ran around until I was good and lost, and then ran right back to where I belonged. No problem.
Monday Nov 23, 2020 #
8 PM
hiking (pavement) 36:55 [1] 3.87 km (9:32 / km) +74m 8:42 / km
shoes: Oboz Sawtooth II
Not far, In The Dark, moon out but headlamp on. Chilly and a bit windy.
Sunday Nov 22, 2020 #
12 PM
running (sand) 59:32 [3] 7.98 km (7:28 / km)
shoes: Nike Initiator
I suspected that I wouldn't be able to make it back across the Ballston Beach gap after flying up to Highland Light, and I was right, I landed partway across. But that was fine, and in fact it was the plan. I just packed up the glider and ran back down the beach to fetch my car, which was the amount of exercise I wanted today anyway. Mostly firm low-tide sand, a couple of brief stops to take pictures. Kind of heavily dressed for running, in jeans and a fleece top and light jacket. I was guessing about five miles, and it was pretty close. The other pilots thought I was nuts (they would have happily driven up to give me a ride back).
Saturday Nov 21, 2020 #
1 PM
orienteering 1:08:32 [3] **** 6.22 km (11:01 / km) +148m 9:50 / km
spiked:9/13c shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280 #2 (red)
Beaver Brook BYOM, Red, 5.0 km. Sloppy on #2, went to the pair of boulders first, very easy to correct. Then reasonably competent through #7. On #8 I missed to the left, but after a little loop I figured out where I was and navigated in just fine from there. Missed to the left again on #10, and didn't correct as quickly as I might have because I mistook some boulder field on the ground for stony ground on the map. Sloppy again on #11, but I was also having trouble figuring out what was on the map. Saw Phil on my way out of that control, he had been having more trouble. Nice warm day, glad we went out.
Friday Nov 20, 2020 #
6 PM
running (woods) 50:16 [3] 6.32 km (7:57 / km) +75m 7:30 / km
shoes: GoLite Blaze Lite
Across the street, In The Dark. I went some places I hadn't been before, following thumbtacks after crossing the Mulpus, then stone walls when they ran out, then more tacks, some just goin-thataway, finally more tacks to the Enigma Road. And then a loop on more familiar stuff. Got chased by a couple of smallish dogs that were being walked off-leash near the end. It doesn't seem unreasonable to have them loose in those conditions, in the woods in the dark when you don't expect to see anybody. But they weren't very good at responding to voice commands. A faceful of headlamp got the more persistent one into a hasty retreat. Nice warm night, mid 50s, just a T-shirt, kept running into pockets of warm air.
Thursday Nov 19, 2020 #
10 PM
running (pavement) 55:15 [3] 8.11 km (6:49 / km) +96m 6:26 / km
shoes: Merrill Bare Access XTR
Home after dropping the car off at Seeley, by an indirect route, In The Dark. Back in the swing of things, but man, I'm pretty slow. A chilly, breezy night, so I was dressed a bit warmly, and the gloves eventually came off and the jacket got unzipped. One very scary moment just after turning onto Holman, when I saw a pair of eyes reflecting back my headlamp, and... Yikes! The dreaded skunk!, perhaps only three meters away! Fortunately, I escaped unaromaed.
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020 #
7 PM
schlepping (Nancy's misc. items) 30:00 [2]
shoes: Merrill Bare Access XTR
After a day with a pretty serious headache, I'll just take this. We were over at North St. for a couple of hours, at least, and I managed to get everything that was left into our two cars. She locked the door, and it's all done, just waiting for the papers to get signed tomorrow and the money to arrive.
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020 #
10 PM
hiking (pavement) 33:35 [1] 3.18 km (10:34 / km) +34m 10:02 / km
shoes: Merrill Bare Access XTR
A stroll to the cemetery and back with Winston, In The Dark. The night was more brisk, but my pace somewhat less so. No clouds meant more starlight, but a darker night; still didn't turn on the headlamp. Nancy's house is almost empty, one more trip should do it.
Monday Nov 16, 2020 #
10 PM
hiking (pavement) 33:08 [2] 3.77 km (8:48 / km) +47m 8:17 / km
shoes: Merrill Bare Access XTR
A route around the neighborhood that was just different enough that I knew it wasn't a repeat, In The Dark. Mid 30s F, so I wore a puffy jacket and a hat, but I was going at racewalk pace, so the hat came off pretty early and the jacket was unzipped by the end. Fast enough that AP's guess was that this was "running". Mostly overcast, so there was enough sky glow that I never turned on the flashlight in my pocket, not even when the one car went by.
Close to done getting Nancy moved, just a few more hours of work remaining.
Unfortunately, I got some sad news today that hit close to home. My high school friend Dave was found yesterday expired in his apartment by somebody doing a wellness check (maybe he hadn't showed up to work or something). Cause of death is reported to be COVID-19 (I'm not certain whether this has been reliably determined). He had a rough start in life, spending his early years in a series of foster homes, but things got better for a while later on. But in recent years he had turned into kind of a recluse, living in an attic apartment for the last couple of decades and I think spending most of his time in role-playing computer games. He lived only about ten minutes away, but I don't think I'd seen him in at least ten years, although I did talk to him on the phone a few years ago. A pity. He was one of my teammates for my first orienteering experience, in high school PE class in December of 1978. I'm pretty sure he was about a week shy of his 60th birthday.
Close to done getting Nancy moved, just a few more hours of work remaining.
Unfortunately, I got some sad news today that hit close to home. My high school friend Dave was found yesterday expired in his apartment by somebody doing a wellness check (maybe he hadn't showed up to work or something). Cause of death is reported to be COVID-19 (I'm not certain whether this has been reliably determined). He had a rough start in life, spending his early years in a series of foster homes, but things got better for a while later on. But in recent years he had turned into kind of a recluse, living in an attic apartment for the last couple of decades and I think spending most of his time in role-playing computer games. He lived only about ten minutes away, but I don't think I'd seen him in at least ten years, although I did talk to him on the phone a few years ago. A pity. He was one of my teammates for my first orienteering experience, in high school PE class in December of 1978. I'm pretty sure he was about a week shy of his 60th birthday.
Sunday Nov 15, 2020 #
10 AM
schlepping (Nancy's boxes) 1:00:00 [2]
shoes: Merrill Bare Access XTR
Same deal, but this time it was just me, Nancy, and Stephen with a couple of cars. One trip to my place with the cars full, one to storage with the cars mostly full, and a little stuff in the cars coming home. Storage unit is mostly full now, with a few more boxes to go. I had thought about a late night walk, but the pouring rain dissauded me from that.
Saturday Nov 14, 2020 #
schlepping (Nancy's furniture) 2:00:00 [2]
shoes: Merrill Bare Access XTR
Some to the storage unit, some to my house (one trip to my place with the U-Haul, and two to the storage place). We were working from about 9 AM until we returned the truck after 6, and I think it's fair to count at least a couple of hours of this as exercise. We had Stephen, Rachel, Matt, and Mark helping out. The 10x10 foot storage unit is maybe 70% full.
Friday Nov 13, 2020 #
10 PM
hiking (pavement) 43:54 [1] 4.28 km (10:15 / km) +14m 10:05 / km
shoes: Oboz Sawtooth II
Another busy day, but I managed to get out for a little stroll around town before bedtime. I think I had the headlamp on some of the time because I saw a few cars, but downtown where there were sidewalks, it wasn't necessary.
Thursday Nov 12, 2020 #
5 PM
hiking (trails) 24:43 [1] 1.89 km (13:05 / km)
shoes: Oboz Sawtooth II
Bertozzi Conservation Area, In The... Dim. Another busy day stopped for a short stroll on my way to Nancy's house. But although I had grabbed my headlamp, I left it by the door on my way to the garage. No moon, stars hidden by clouds... but there was enough sky glow that I could see where I was going. I grabbed a flashlight that I keep in the car, but I only turned it on to look at a couple of things. There's a USGS stream monitoring station down there, as well as the other end of the cable across the river that I've seen the other end of while mountain biking. And the swimming hole that I saw when I paddled through a few months ago.
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020 #
5 PM
running (woods) 1:01:06 [3] 7.61 km (8:02 / km) +78m 7:39 / km
shoes: Merrill Bare Access XTR
Across the street, In The Dark. Freakishly comfortable, almost 70F, with the lightest detectable amount of rain. Took me three passes to find the Landlocked trail from the north end, between the leaf cover and the fact that I was operating with a headlamp..
11 PM
Note
Cleaning out various closets, throwing stuff out. I came across all the equipment from when Nancy and Charlie and I used to do results at orienteering meets. Label printer with serial port interface, special PalmPilot with integral barcode scanner for reading bib numbers, CDs with software for same (custom program written by Clint), all worthless junk now, all went into the wastebasket. I hung onto a stapler and a bunch of index cards.
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020 #
11 PM
hiking (pavement) 40:17 [1] 3.9 km (10:19 / km) +65m 9:31 / km
shoes: Merrill Bare Access XTR
Neighborhood stroll, In The Dark. To the three nearest intersections and back. Completely by starlight, no moon, never turned on my light, never saw a car. After a busy day, finished up around midnight, unusual to have it be 60 F even at that time of night in November.
Monday Nov 9, 2020 #
5 PM
pedaling (mountain bike) 50:50 [2] 10.44 km (4:52 / km) +42m 4:47 / km
Groton Town Forest, In The Dark. Not quite dark when I started. Up and down the old rail line, and then sort of around the perimeter. It hit 81F today, and I was dressed as if it still was (it had dropped about 20 degrees), so it was a little cool.
Sunday Nov 8, 2020 #
3 PM
hiking (trails) 26:41 [1] 2.26 km (11:48 / km)
shoes: Merrill Bare Access XTR
A little walk with Nancy at Mine Falls between errands.
Saturday Nov 7, 2020 #
5 PM
pedaling (MTB on pavement) 27:31 [2] 8.64 km (3:11 / km) +44m 3:06 / km
Central Mass Rail Trail, In The Dark. Not really paved, but close enough. After a day of winch towing the hang glider (three flights for me) at Tanner-Hiller, which also involved some effort in terms of stuff like pulling the rope back. I brought the bike for that purpose, the the lazy pilots quickly decided they'd rather do it by car. Anyway, I did this quick ride on the way home so I'd have something to log. One dicey moment when the trail went downhill and suddenly it was loose and covered with leaves and I almost crashed, but good bike handling skills saved the day.
And at the pilots' meeting at the start of the day, I got a phone call from Nancy with the good news that I hadn't yet heard because I wasn't listening to the radio.
And at the pilots' meeting at the start of the day, I got a phone call from Nancy with the good news that I hadn't yet heard because I wasn't listening to the radio.
Friday Nov 6, 2020 #
1 PM
pedaling (road bike) 1:32:13 [3] 40.22 km (2:18 / km) +398m 2:11 / km
Skipped out of work in the middle of this beautiful day for a ride in daylight. Up to NH; last time I was up this way I came down Morse Rd., which was awful, and I considered this time going up Jackson Rd., which unsurprisingly didn't look much better, so instead I went a little further to Depot Rd., which has the advantage of being paved.
Fairly strong southerly breeze, which was nice to have on the Barker Hill descent, and didn't hurt that much coming back up Warren Rd. I had this ride scoped out as 25 miles, but it came up short, I guess I should have ridden another 50 feet.
I put on a new saddle today, a NOS Waveflo from the early 1990s that I found in a box. Supposed to conform to the rider's ischial tuberosities, though this one may well be petrified.
Fairly strong southerly breeze, which was nice to have on the Barker Hill descent, and didn't hurt that much coming back up Warren Rd. I had this ride scoped out as 25 miles, but it came up short, I guess I should have ridden another 50 feet.
I put on a new saddle today, a NOS Waveflo from the early 1990s that I found in a box. Supposed to conform to the rider's ischial tuberosities, though this one may well be petrified.
Thursday Nov 5, 2020 #
6 PM
pedaling (mountain bike) 1:15:03 [2] 13.27 km (5:39 / km) +55m 5:32 / km
Squannacook River WMA, In The Dark. I started at the Pumpkin Brook parking, which I'd driven past a number of times but hadn't checked out. One direction went to a small footbridge (over a creek that's currently dry), but on the other side of it there was nothing but woods. The other way went to a field that was full of prickly weeds. But then I found a third trail... that went to another part of the same field. So then I went down the street to the other gate, and that had a trail that crossed a similar footbridge but kept going. But it was awfully small, and kept getting smaller and eventually was just heading for a back yard.
So back out to the road and in through the usual parking area. North all the way to NEBS, then south all the way to Squannacook Road, and then back to the car. Warm evening, quite comfortable.
Hardly any ticks this year, but then two today. The first one was a real mystery, on my ear this morning, and the other after the ride, on my lower back. Both still crawling, both pretty small.
So back out to the road and in through the usual parking area. North all the way to NEBS, then south all the way to Squannacook Road, and then back to the car. Warm evening, quite comfortable.
Hardly any ticks this year, but then two today. The first one was a real mystery, on my ear this morning, and the other after the ride, on my lower back. Both still crawling, both pretty small.
Wednesday Nov 4, 2020 #
5 PM
pedaling (mountain bike) 1:01:56 [2] 7.85 km (7:53 / km) +46m 7:40 / km
Robbs Hill, In The Dark. A nice bop around on trails that are for the most part considerably less steep than what I did yesterday. Got on one unfamiliar trail that was pretty neglected, eventually dead-ended into a back yard, but there was a exit to the street nearby. A bit later, I was on a faint trail that seened to vanish when I got to a stream. I now see from the map that it took a left, but I couldn't see that. Figuring that you're never far from a trail in this place, I just got off the bike and forged into the woods, and went a bit farther than I expected, but I did hit a trail. Nice conditions, warm enough for shorts (maybe around 50 F?). I finally got around to raising the seat on the bike to where it belongs, that was a big improvement. I think I'm going to take one of my headlamps and permanently affix it to my old bike helmet so ad to have a night helmet where I don't need to fiddle with straps.
Tuesday Nov 3, 2020 #
5 PM
pedaling (mountain bike) 48:20 [2] 8.2 km (5:54 / km) +171m 5:20 / km
WBNW, In The Dark. Temp around freezing, just a tiny bit of twilight left when I started, but I had the headlamp on bright the whole time. The big climb up toward Fort Hill Rd. was more effort than I anticipated, and it almost croaked me (last time I did it downhill, and it was scary, so this was a good choice). The descent north of the Trilogy crossing might not have been doable uphill in these conditions, I had the rear wheel locked up and sliding on leaves a lot of the time. Two dismounts, one to fix my headlamp which was slipping off, and the other because I didn't feel like riding through the stream. I ended up with cold toes, but I didn't realize it until they started to warm up painfully when I was in the shower.
Monday Nov 2, 2020 #
6 PM
running (trails) 50:13 [2] 5.91 km (8:30 / km) +39m 8:14 / km
shoes: GoLite Blaze Lite
Robb's Hill, In The Dark. A tour kind of around the periphery. Lots of recently fallen leaves made the footing hard to see. Didn't stub my toe, but I did roll my right ankle a few times. Temp down around freezing, so I was dressed on the warm side, which was okay. Headlamp on all the time despite the bright rising moon.
Sunday Nov 1, 2020 #
10 AM
hiking (trails) 2:44:17 [1] 8.22 km (19:59 / km) +193m 17:54 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Doane's Falls (Tully), with Nancy. And then up the river a bit, and up the ridge to check out the waterfalls and the view. Recent precipitation meant the falls were running nicely.
9 PM
Note
I marked my toe injury as "recovered". Why am I still showing up as red for injured?