Training Log Archive: CleverSky

At Silver Lake (Hollis Town Forest) with Nancy, Stephen and a bunch of guests from the Bundschuhs' party, In The Dark (hatlamp). This was a "full-moon" outing, but the moon hadn't come up by the time we were done a little after 8 PM. NE out of the parking lot, down to the first pond, then over to the straits and a couple of laps around the marsh, then back. The trail was solidly snowmobiled, and the ice was partially clear, but I went postholing through untracked stuff a lot in order to keep myself warm, get some extra exercise, and slow myself down to around the speed that the others were going. I also did some intervals for the same reason. Cold out, around 17F or so I think, and I wasn't really dressed as well as I could have been (better hat and gloves would have been good).

20 pushups. Fell asleep before I got to the rest of the exercises.

20 pushups, 20 pushups, 50 situps.

Shorter Mystery Blazes loop. The thermometer had a number that started with a 5 on the middle of the day, but it had dropped to the mid 40s by the time I got out in the fading light. Crust has softened up completely, so I was sinking into almost slushy stuff, thus I was slower than last time even though I was running for the first downhill part. I got across Mulpus Brook on the snow bridge again, but I don't know how long I'll be able to get away with that. The main trail had an amazing amount of animal droppings on it (deer, I'm guessing, but I'm no expert in these matters). Jacket was unzipped and gloves were off shortly after I started, and although I wore the hatlamp, I turned it on only once, in the hemlock grove just before the power line trail. The rest of the time I got by as my eyes adjusted to the ambient light. On the last ascent, a couple of breaks in the clouds blew through, revealing brilliant moonlight -- nice.

I could swear there was a day last week when I did the pushups/situps thing, but I don't remember when.