Training Log Archive: CleverSky

Mulpus Brook loop, running for part of it and eventually a brisk walk. The main trail was snowmobiled in, there were some snowshoes tracks on the first part near the road, the Lane trail has ski tracks (but I broke trail next to them because I know that slot-car skiers hate it when you mess up their grooves), and the Mystery Blazes and the rest of the lower loop had snowshoe tracks (though they didn't go exactly where I did). Working reasonably hard, wearing Dad's snowshoes, which was about right.

The sky may be clever, but it appears that Mr. Charlie is clever as well, though he has not tipped his hand thus far. Care to say hello?

C • bonjour 9

20 pushups, 20 pushups, 50 situps

Snow dealings, round 3: snowblowing at my place again, redoing the additional snow that had fallen on (or drifted onto) the driveway, and the dreaded rescuing of the mailbox. Tougher than usual this time, because some helpful snowplow driver had deposited a big pile of cement right in front of it. I had to break it up with a shovel before I could use the snowblower on it. If I didn't have a snowblower, I would have had to tell the post office to hold my mail until spring. 55 minutes.

20 pushups, 20 pushups, 50 situps

Snow dealings, round 1: snowblowing the driveway. 34 minutes, timed pretty well, because the snow was almost up to the top of the throat. Will probably have to do this again late tonight to get whatever falls in the interim, but I'm hoping I'll be able to run the machine in at least medium gear, as opposed to this round where some of the time I had to leave it in neutral and push it, because low gear went too fast and would bog down the auger.

Snow dealings, round 2: shoveling out Nancy's driveway. Hard to know what intensity this should be; it certainly was tiring. Didn't do the whole thing myself, Stephen and Nancy were working on it as well. Unfortunately, we seem to have made the always blind entry onto the street now be insanely blind.

20 pushups, 20 pushups, 50 situps

20 pushups, 20 pushups, 50 situps

Willard Brook SE. Don't know if I've ever done these two runs on consecutive days before. Temperature was about five degrees warmer then yesterday, though it didn't fee like it (maybe becasue of the wind). I had a notion that this run might be less icy than yesterday's, and though that may have been generally true, the northbound trail was quite icy, maybe due to ATV traffic, but probably also because it's a bit of a shelf that can collect water. I finished up by exploring a small trail (with bridges) that I hadn't noticed before, that branches off southward just after the start, and parallels the road for about a half-mile. There was also a trail forking off uphill that I should check out at some point, since it's still state land at that point, based on the signs. Finished up on the road.