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Saturday Mar 31, 2012 #
exercises 1:50 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats. Pathetic. But it's not looking like tomorrow will be much better, too much going on.
Friday Mar 30, 2012 #
running (pavement) 1:48:56 [3] 10.93 mi (9:58 / mi) +150m 9:34 / mi
shoes: Nike Initiator
Lunenburg Project #11.
Northfield Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
<-> Connell Dr.
-> Mass Ave.
<-> Meadow Wood Trailer Park
-> Mass Ave.
-> Cross St.
-> Mulpus Rd.
<-> Hunting Hill Rd.
-> Mulpus Rd.
-> shortcut through a farm in Shirley
-> West Groton Rd.
<-> old road
-> Mass Ave.
-> Cross St.
-> Mulpus Rd.
-> Townsend Harbor Rd.
-> South Row Rd.
-> Island Rd.
-> trails
-> Gilchrest St.
A slightly longer outing than I had planned. I had figured on the main figure-8, with Hunting Hill added in. When I got to Connor (a street that had barely ever caught my eye), I decided to add it. Then when I got to the trailer park, I couldn't remember whether the roads in there are considered streets or not, but I didn't think I'd be doing that stretch of Mass Ave. again, so I ran through there just in case. And when going down Rte. 225, I saw that the houses on the north side are all on a parallel street that appears to be the old course of the road before the road got straightened and a modern bridge got put in (probably before I was born). But their mailboxes are on that parallel street, so I went ahead and ran it. The Fire Dept. street directory doesn't list it, and Google Maps shows it without a name. OSM calls it West Groton Rd. and has Rte. 225 listed as Old Massachusetts Avenue, but that's apparently bogus, because the street sign for on Rte. 225 says West Groton Rd., and the side road has no street sign. Climb is a very rough guess based on the overall shape of the climb graph from my GPS. Looks like this puts the Hickory Hills district to bed, and at 25% of the way through the year gets me over the 25% mark on both the list of named streets and the total distance (although I've done more than that -- I don't check off a street until it's complete, and I have a couple of long ones that are not quite done). In the NE quadrant (north of 2A and east of 13), it looks like I have everything except short parts of 2A and 13 themselves, Memorial Drive, North Cemetery, and Seaver Rd. (which I will likely leave for last).
Northfield Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
<-> Connell Dr.
-> Mass Ave.
<-> Meadow Wood Trailer Park
-> Mass Ave.
-> Cross St.
-> Mulpus Rd.
<-> Hunting Hill Rd.
-> Mulpus Rd.
-> shortcut through a farm in Shirley
-> West Groton Rd.
<-> old road
-> Mass Ave.
-> Cross St.
-> Mulpus Rd.
-> Townsend Harbor Rd.
-> South Row Rd.
-> Island Rd.
-> trails
-> Gilchrest St.
A slightly longer outing than I had planned. I had figured on the main figure-8, with Hunting Hill added in. When I got to Connor (a street that had barely ever caught my eye), I decided to add it. Then when I got to the trailer park, I couldn't remember whether the roads in there are considered streets or not, but I didn't think I'd be doing that stretch of Mass Ave. again, so I ran through there just in case. And when going down Rte. 225, I saw that the houses on the north side are all on a parallel street that appears to be the old course of the road before the road got straightened and a modern bridge got put in (probably before I was born). But their mailboxes are on that parallel street, so I went ahead and ran it. The Fire Dept. street directory doesn't list it, and Google Maps shows it without a name. OSM calls it West Groton Rd. and has Rte. 225 listed as Old Massachusetts Avenue, but that's apparently bogus, because the street sign for on Rte. 225 says West Groton Rd., and the side road has no street sign. Climb is a very rough guess based on the overall shape of the climb graph from my GPS. Looks like this puts the Hickory Hills district to bed, and at 25% of the way through the year gets me over the 25% mark on both the list of named streets and the total distance (although I've done more than that -- I don't check off a street until it's complete, and I have a couple of long ones that are not quite done). In the NE quadrant (north of 2A and east of 13), it looks like I have everything except short parts of 2A and 13 themselves, Memorial Drive, North Cemetery, and Seaver Rd. (which I will likely leave for last).
2 PM
running 1:48:57 [3] 17.64 km (6:11 / km) +154m 5:55 / km
Thursday Mar 29, 2012 #
exercises 3:40 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats, 20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats.
Wednesday Mar 28, 2012 #
running (pavement) 1:05:34 [3] 7.04 mi (9:19 / mi) +55m 9:06 / mi
shoes: Nike Initiator
Lunenburg Project #10.
Northfield Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
<-> Townsend Harbor Rd.
-> Woodland Dr.
-> Hemlock Dr.
-> Pine Acres Rd.
<-> Hickory Ln.
<-> Pine Acres Rd.
-> Hemlock Dr.
<-> Hemlock Terr.
<-> Hilltop Ln.
<-> Birch Island Way
-> Hemlock Dr.
-> Townsend Harbor Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Northfield Rd.
If Island Road, on the north side of the lake, seems like a misnomer, it's got nothing on Hilltop Lane. No hill there! I also noticed that one of the houses on Northfield Rd. has done something dubious that I've toyed with doing, but never have. Presumably as a defense against drunk teenagers in cars armed with baseball bats, the mailbox consists of a smaller mailbox inside a larger one, with the space between filled with concrete.
Northfield Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
<-> Townsend Harbor Rd.
-> Woodland Dr.
-> Hemlock Dr.
-> Pine Acres Rd.
<-> Hickory Ln.
<-> Pine Acres Rd.
-> Hemlock Dr.
<-> Hemlock Terr.
<-> Hilltop Ln.
<-> Birch Island Way
-> Hemlock Dr.
-> Townsend Harbor Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Northfield Rd.
If Island Road, on the north side of the lake, seems like a misnomer, it's got nothing on Hilltop Lane. No hill there! I also noticed that one of the houses on Northfield Rd. has done something dubious that I've toyed with doing, but never have. Presumably as a defense against drunk teenagers in cars armed with baseball bats, the mailbox consists of a smaller mailbox inside a larger one, with the space between filled with concrete.
4 PM
running 1:05:33 [3] 11.36 km (5:46 / km) +49m 5:39 / km
Tuesday Mar 27, 2012 #
running (pavement) 1:00:09 [3] 5.95 mi (10:07 / mi) +55m 9:50 / mi
shoes: Nike Initiator
Lunenburg Project #09.
Gilchrest St.
-> trails
-> Island Rd.
-> South Row Rd.
-> Crescent Rd.
<-> Crescent Terr.
<-> Townsend Harbor Rd.
-> South Row Rd.
-> Island Rd.
-> trails
-> Gilchrest St.
Temperature close to 50 F. Google Earth shows me turning around a smidge short of the town line on Townsend Harbor Rd., but this border crossing has a nice signpost that I was able to run around. GPS seems to have been behaving itself reasonably well today, though the repeatability in the woods is slightly off.
Gilchrest St.
-> trails
-> Island Rd.
-> South Row Rd.
-> Crescent Rd.
<-> Crescent Terr.
<-> Townsend Harbor Rd.
-> South Row Rd.
-> Island Rd.
-> trails
-> Gilchrest St.
Temperature close to 50 F. Google Earth shows me turning around a smidge short of the town line on Townsend Harbor Rd., but this border crossing has a nice signpost that I was able to run around. GPS seems to have been behaving itself reasonably well today, though the repeatability in the woods is slightly off.
4 PM
running 1:00:11 [3] 9.59 km (6:16 / km) +49m 6:07 / km
Monday Mar 26, 2012 #
running (woods) 44:30 [3] 6.8 km (6:33 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Mystery Blazes, temperature back down to the low 40s, so I wore short and long sleeve shirts. Time is a bit slower than last time, for no apparent reason; I felt pretty good while running.
Sunday Mar 25, 2012 #
exercises 1:50 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats.
Saturday Mar 24, 2012 #
exercises 3:40 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats, 20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats.
Friday Mar 23, 2012 #
pedaling (unicycle) 41:46 [1] 3.2 mi (13:03 / mi)
Holman St. loop with and out-and-back to the Mulpus bridge. Generally achy from yesterday, just wanted to do something easy that would get my bodily fluids flowing a little and get some outdoor air into my lungs. I was off my game, and had to hop off a couple of times early on, plus dismounted when crossing Northfield in both directions, and at the bridge. I did manage to make the last climb by the house, despite the fact that a car went by from each direction simultaneously when I was at the crux.
Thursday Mar 22, 2012 #
exercises 1:55 [5]
25 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats. Did this token bit of exercise just before bed in order to have something to log, note that I forgot how many pushups I'm doing these days and threw in five extra, which was pretty tough. The real exercise for the day was flying, which is equivalent to doing two hours of little pushups and stuff, and which left my arms and core kind of worn out. There was also a modicum of carrying stuff around, but since it was at the Mohawk Trail, that isn't really worth logging.
Note
The view from about a half-mile up:
Wednesday Mar 21, 2012 #
pedaling (unicycle) 27:54 [1] 2.59 mi (10:46 / mi)
Rode to the post office and back. I took splits when I went by the convenience store, and it took me 25:45 to do what took 37:00 last night walking, so the unicycle is about 30% faster.
pedaling (road bike) 29:58 [2] 8.73 mi (3:26 / mi)
Back to Ernie's to pick up the car. I figured it would take about a half-hour, and I guessed pretty well. On the long hill up from the Nashua River to Groton School on 225, there was a guy ahead of me wearing proper bicycling attire. In my cargo shorts and T-shirt I went by him as if I was Charlie and he was Phil.
pedaling (unicycle) 12:35 [1] 1.1 mi (11:26 / mi)
Riding to the ConComm meeting. Hopped off at the place where the boy scouts meet because a car stopped in front of me to drop a couple of them off and then there was traffic coming from behind, so I walked the remaining distance to the traffic light.
pedaling (unicycle) 14:47 [1] 1.22 mi (12:07 / mi)
Back home after the meeting, in the dark, wearing the hatlamp. Some people from the meeting were intrigued enough to hang around and watch me leave. I blatantly ran the red light (and hollered that I was doing so, to much laughter) because there were no cars anywhere in sight.
Tuesday Mar 20, 2012 #
pedaling (road bike) 1:02:33 [2] 13.56 mi (4:37 / mi)
Dropped off the car at Ernie's for some brake work, then rode to the bank, and headed home. Partway there I was enjoying the ride enough that I decided to take the scenic route. I took a peek at Boat Ramp Cove -- still drained, though I don't know if they'll wind up having whacked the fanwort or not, since it probably didn't get frozen very effectively. A bit of a headwind for much of the ride, but it was certainly a beautiful day for a bike ride.
hiking (pavement) 37:00 [1] 2.34 mi (15:49 / mi)
shoes: Nike Initiator
Not having the car, but needing a few groceries, I grabbed a backpack and walked downtown to the convenience store, right around sunset. I hate to make observations about racial stereotypes, but you don't see many South Asians in Lunenburg (as opposed to Westford, where Nancy lives, which has a fair number). This place is rural enough that it's mostly old New Englanders. But the one place where I bump into them is at the convenience store that they operate, next door to Town Hall. There used to another place: on the other side of Town Hall, there was briefly a second Indian-run convenience store.
Monday Mar 19, 2012 #
running (pavement) 1:12:25 [3] 6.88 mi (10:32 / mi)
shoes: Nike Initiator
Lunenburg Project #08.
Northfield Rd.
-> Turkey Hill Rd.
-> Oak Ave.
-> Main St.
-> Lancaster Ave.
-> Rolling Acres Rd.
-> Meadow Ln.
-> Rolling Acres Rd.
-> Lancaster Ave.
-> (behind the town offices)
<-> School St.
-> Massachusetts Ave.
-> Riley Rd.
-> Sunnyhill Rd.
-> Massachusetts Ave.
-> Chestnut St.
-> Highland St.
-> Holman St.
-> Northfield Rd.
Looks like more than it is, I really just picked up two roads through housing projects (RollingAcres/Meadow and Riley). Planning out the route, I was puzzled because I couldn't picture Riley until I realized that it's just the road through the elderly condos. I knew there was an emergency back entrance, but it took me a bit to find it (not a real road, as it's gated on the Sunnyhill end). I also had a tiny doubling-back on Rolling Acres when I was overtaken by a basketball. I caught up to it when it was slowed due to passing under a parked truck, and I was able to grab it and run a bit back up the hill before shooting it up to the cagers.
The GPS tracking was pretty far off today. I measured the length on gmap-pedometer instead.
Nice day to be outside, though I spent most of the run stewing about how badly the job interview went this morning.
Northfield Rd.
-> Turkey Hill Rd.
-> Oak Ave.
-> Main St.
-> Lancaster Ave.
-> Rolling Acres Rd.
-> Meadow Ln.
-> Rolling Acres Rd.
-> Lancaster Ave.
-> (behind the town offices)
<-> School St.
-> Massachusetts Ave.
-> Riley Rd.
-> Sunnyhill Rd.
-> Massachusetts Ave.
-> Chestnut St.
-> Highland St.
-> Holman St.
-> Northfield Rd.
Looks like more than it is, I really just picked up two roads through housing projects (RollingAcres/Meadow and Riley). Planning out the route, I was puzzled because I couldn't picture Riley until I realized that it's just the road through the elderly condos. I knew there was an emergency back entrance, but it took me a bit to find it (not a real road, as it's gated on the Sunnyhill end). I also had a tiny doubling-back on Rolling Acres when I was overtaken by a basketball. I caught up to it when it was slowed due to passing under a parked truck, and I was able to grab it and run a bit back up the hill before shooting it up to the cagers.
The GPS tracking was pretty far off today. I measured the length on gmap-pedometer instead.
Nice day to be outside, though I spent most of the run stewing about how badly the job interview went this morning.
3 PM
pedaling 1:12:24 [3] 10.98 km (6:36 / km) +111m 6:17 / km
Sunday Mar 18, 2012 #
hiking 35:40 [3] 1.0 mi (35:40 / mi) +150m 24:20 / mi
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Dragging gliders up to launch at Hinesburg, VT. My Falcon and Jeff's Sport2 on the cart, with me and Jeff pulling from the front and ARt pushing from the back, up a muddy trail. Warm weather. Also carrying my harness backpack. We stopped for a break partway up.
hiking 6:37 [3] 0.29 km (22:49 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Hiking down from where I landed to the road, carrying my glider and harness. Level for the first part, then downhill, and fortunately I found an excellent ancient trail that led to the road.
Saturday Mar 17, 2012 #
running 43:43 [3] 6.8 km (6:26 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
Mystery Blazes. First frogs of the year vocalizing down by the Seaver turn. Also the first tick of the year crawling on me (a smallish one, but I suspect it's a young/small wood tick, not a deer tick).
Note
Found two more ticks crawling on me later on while sitting at my computer. Noticed both of them by feel, but this doesn't not make me very happy, as I don't know where they came from and who knows how many more are lurking.
Friday Mar 16, 2012 #
exercises 3:40 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats, 20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats.
Thursday Mar 15, 2012 #
rowing (Concept2) 22:25 [4] 5.0 km (4:29 / km)
I think this is something that always seems like it's going to be more fun than it actually turns out to be. Maybe if I did more of it, it would be more enjoyable. Or if I had on a movie or some music or something. I think this was halfway respectable for somebody so inexperienced, though.
Wednesday Mar 14, 2012 #
hiking 1:24:35 [1] 2.68 mi (31:34 / mi) +204m 25:31 / mi
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
An out-and-back on the Tunxis Trail, over Trillum Hill and down to Hurricane Brook, with Zack, Charlie, and Rhonda.
Tuesday Mar 13, 2012 #
exercises 3:40 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats, 20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats.
Monday Mar 12, 2012 #
running (pavement) 57:11 [3] 5.89 mi (9:43 / mi) +150m 9:00 / mi
shoes: Nike Initiator
Lunenburg Project #07.
Northfield Rd.
<-> West Townsend Rd.
-> Northfield Rd.
A bit of low-hanging fruit. There are a few tiny snow piles left, and a few small stagnant bodies of water have a bit of ice, but the temperature got up to 73 this afternoon, so I put on shorts and went out for a run. I didn't see any kind of monument at the town line, so despite the fact that there was a pavement break and the house numbers changed, I continued in search of something to tag. The corner of Old City Road was in sight, and the signpost there indicated that I was on Lunenburg Rd. (a sure sign that I was no longer in Lunenburg). On the way back, I spotted a white-painted wooden post in the weeds which I suspect may have once held a sign indicating the town line. I glanced at my watch at the turnaround, and it looks like I was a little slower on the return despite the fact that it was mostly downhill.
Northfield Rd.
<-> West Townsend Rd.
-> Northfield Rd.
A bit of low-hanging fruit. There are a few tiny snow piles left, and a few small stagnant bodies of water have a bit of ice, but the temperature got up to 73 this afternoon, so I put on shorts and went out for a run. I didn't see any kind of monument at the town line, so despite the fact that there was a pavement break and the house numbers changed, I continued in search of something to tag. The corner of Old City Road was in sight, and the signpost there indicated that I was on Lunenburg Rd. (a sure sign that I was no longer in Lunenburg). On the way back, I spotted a white-painted wooden post in the weeds which I suspect may have once held a sign indicating the town line. I glanced at my watch at the turnaround, and it looks like I was a little slower on the return despite the fact that it was mostly downhill.
3 PM
running 57:11 [3] 9.5 km (6:01 / km) +144m 5:36 / km
Sunday Mar 11, 2012 #
pedaling (unicycle) 48:53 [2] 6.47 km (7:33 / km)
Unicycling the Oak-Holman-Highland figure-8. I didn't initially plan to go so far, but it was a very nice day (albeit a little windy, which can make it tough), so I decided to keep going. This was a great no-impact bit of easy exercise, which was just what I needed. The cool thing about unicycling is that I leave all kinds of smiling people in my wake. One woman who I passed said, "I'm more nervous than you are!". (That's quite true, ma'am.)
Saturday Mar 10, 2012 #
hiking 3:20 [4] 12.5 km (16 / km) +600m 13 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
A long day of schlepping hang glider gear at Skinner, which included a tree rescue but no flying. Time and distance are estimated, as I didn't have my GPS tracker with me all the time, and I didn't start my watch for some of this.
1) Up the road to the ranger station, pulling three gliders on the cart with another pilot.
2) Up the trail and out to launch carrying one harness.
3) Back to the top of the road to meet the guys who were pulling the cart.
4) Down the Halfway Trail and then down the road with the empty cart.
5) Back up the road the whole way pulling two gliders on the cart with another pilot.
6) Carrying one end of a glider along the ridge out to launch.
7) Scrambling down the cliff to get to the pilot who snagged a wingtip and got spun into the trees.
8) Helping the pilot get down from the small hemlock, climbing the tree to
unhook the nose wires so we could get it to the ground, then helping to pack it up.
9) Straight down the steep slope, working with another pilot to let the bagged-up glider slide down the hill.
10) Walking down the rest of the way down the road carrying the crash pilot's harness bag.
11) Back up the road and the Halfway Trail pulling the empty cart (which we had arranged to have someone bring back down to the car for us).
12) Walking back along the ridge to launch.
13) Carrying my glider back along the ridge to the top of the road (given the light conditions, and the fact that somebody had already blown launch, none of the other four of us who had our gliders set up were interested in potentially being the second one in a row to end up in the trees).
14) Back down the road with another pilot, controlling the speed of the cart which had three gliders on it (190 pounds), with a harness on my back.
Pretty exhausting. After all this, we were a bit late heading for the annual hang gliding association banquet, and I decided to just skip it.
1) Up the road to the ranger station, pulling three gliders on the cart with another pilot.
2) Up the trail and out to launch carrying one harness.
3) Back to the top of the road to meet the guys who were pulling the cart.
4) Down the Halfway Trail and then down the road with the empty cart.
5) Back up the road the whole way pulling two gliders on the cart with another pilot.
6) Carrying one end of a glider along the ridge out to launch.
7) Scrambling down the cliff to get to the pilot who snagged a wingtip and got spun into the trees.
8) Helping the pilot get down from the small hemlock, climbing the tree to
unhook the nose wires so we could get it to the ground, then helping to pack it up.
9) Straight down the steep slope, working with another pilot to let the bagged-up glider slide down the hill.
10) Walking down the rest of the way down the road carrying the crash pilot's harness bag.
11) Back up the road and the Halfway Trail pulling the empty cart (which we had arranged to have someone bring back down to the car for us).
12) Walking back along the ridge to launch.
13) Carrying my glider back along the ridge to the top of the road (given the light conditions, and the fact that somebody had already blown launch, none of the other four of us who had our gliders set up were interested in potentially being the second one in a row to end up in the trees).
14) Back down the road with another pilot, controlling the speed of the cart which had three gliders on it (190 pounds), with a harness on my back.
Pretty exhausting. After all this, we were a bit late heading for the annual hang gliding association banquet, and I decided to just skip it.
Friday Mar 9, 2012 #
running (woods) 49:25 [3] 6.8 km (7:16 / km)
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 350
The warm weather the past few days melted all but a few tiny traces of the snow, and I got off work a little early this afternoon, so despite a possible broken ankle I went for a cruise around Mystery Blazes. Mulpus Brook was as high as I've ever seen it when going in this direction, so I had to pick my way through there, and I also had to stop a couple of times for coughing fits. Just as well that I'm not going to North Carolina, as I'm something of a wreck.
Thursday Mar 8, 2012 #
exercises 1:50 [5]
25 squats, 20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups.
Wednesday Mar 7, 2012 #
Note
My left ankle is a little sore. Odd. The soreness is on top, on the left side, just in front of and a little above the big bony bump. It feels kind of like what I would expect if I had rolled my ankle, but I don't recall having done that recently. Not bothersome just sitting still, but I can feel it a little if I walk around. I'm wondering if it might be a consequence of the plyo stuff, jumping as high as I can and landing on a concrete floor.
C • plyo 1
exercises 3:40 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats, 20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats. Substituting squats (very noisy) for plyo to be nice to the ankle.
Tuesday Mar 6, 2012 #
exercises 1:35 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 10 plyo. And that was all I felt like doing.
Monday Mar 5, 2012 #
exercises 3:10 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 10 plyo, 20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 10 plyo.
Sunday Mar 4, 2012 #
exercises 3:10 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 10 plyo, 20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 10 plyo.
Saturday Mar 3, 2012 #
pedaling (rollers) 1:00:22 [2]
I had been thinking that I might do this sometime this winter, but today was the first day with bad enough weather to drive me to it. With what was left of 9" of snow on the ground getting mushed down by rain, and temps in the high 30s, I saw no appeal to going out either in the woods or on the roads, as both would be all slush. (Actually, the sun came out at the end of the day, and the evening looked lovely, but the slush was still there.) So I pulled out the antique rollers and the Incubus, found a concert video by one of my favorite bands on YouTube, and started cranking. There's no load on the rollers, so the effort level probably isn't that high, but it is enough to get me sweating* even in the unheated entryway. Mostly, though, this is a character building exercise, putting strain on the hands and the concentration. The whole balancing deal is touchy, and every time I shift my hand position, the bike wobbles. I didn't fall off at all, although there was one brief period when I had an elbow against the wall. I also had to take a break about 75% of the way through because my hands were falling asleep, so I just coasted to a stop and sat up, leaning against the wall, for the duration of one short song. It occurred to me during this that the sketchy rubber belt that drives the front roller is almost 40 years old, and it's a miracle that's it's lasted this long. If I'm going to continue to use these things, I should probably find some way to replace it. I'm not sure what would happen if it broke, but I suspect I'd need to grab the wall quickly. Then again, these rollers have a decent amount of momentum, so it might be controllable for several seconds.
*Of course, I don't actually sweat, everybody knows that. It's just an expression.
*Of course, I don't actually sweat, everybody knows that. It's just an expression.
Friday Mar 2, 2012 #
exercises 1:35 [5]
20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 10 plyo. Upping the number per set, but only one set today because headache.
Thursday Mar 1, 2012 #
running (snowshoes) 36:11 [3] 3.0 km (12:04 / km)
shoes: GoLite SunDragon
Mulpus Brook loop, breaking trail in about 8" of sticky fresh snow (used the small snowshoes). I managed to keep up a jog the whole way (exept when picking my way through some deadfall down by the bayous), and the final climb was really hard work. In a lot of places the evergreens were weighted down so that it was like going through a tunnel, had to duck a lot, very cool. Weird season, with serious snow at the end of October, essentially none in the winter months of November, December, or January, and snow once again now that it's March. But the forecast for Saturday is rain in the high 40s, so this may not last.