Training Log Archive: CleverSky

Intended to do the Mystery Blazes loop, but with all the rain we've gotten, things were pretty wet, and on the Lane Trail, the normal wet spot was all flooded out, giving me a choice of sloshing through water or wading through poison ivy. I may have already gotten into enough poison ivy for the day by pulling ot some weeds in my yard, so I turned around and headed down the main trail, crossed the bridge and made a left to follow the brook, picked up the Enigma Road, and followed it until it segued into the Mystery Blazes, then continued and took the right fork at the top of the hill. I had only done this in the winter, when I was following snowshoe tracks, and I found it difficult to follow, in part because it's blazed in red, which does me no good. Took one of the normal routes back once I got to Hickory Hills.

Feeling generally down. I feel this way a lot, but I just happen to be noticing it at the moment. The obvious "causes", things that aren't going that great, probably have little to do with it, though maybe the sucky weather does. I have a trip coming up, but unlike a lot of years when I would be looking forward to it, this one is different, not dreading it, but just wanting to get through it. I have no plans for this trip, and I'm sort of anticipating spending a week in France just off hiding someplace with a magazine and waiting for the return flight.

If things work out, particularly if the weather changes a smidge, maybe I'll see if I can get motivated to run Mt. Ascutney on Sunday. It would be great to run it and then fly afterwards.

C • What's up -- a week in Fran... 2

At Crane's Beach, spent a while throwing the boomerang (which more or less qualifies as unstructured intervals), and swam out to a buoy and back. Managed to catch the boomerang a couple of times, so I haven't lost the knack completely.

Brace Mountain, pulling the cart with about 130 pounds of gear to the second stream, then Nancy took my harness from there, John Gallagher took Jeff's, Jeff and I made two trips up the steep section to get the two gliders up, then I took the Ultrasport to the summit by myself. Beautiful day to be hanging out on top of a mountain, which is what we mostly did. Eventually the wind direction changed so that we could get into the air, but I had trouble working the spotty lift again, and was on the ground after 13 minutes. Made me realize that I have a goal for Brace: at some point spend more time getting back down than I spent getting up there.