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Saturday Aug 9, 2014 #
11 AM
orienteering race 1:25:31 [3] *** 10.68 km (8:00 / km) +223m 7:15 / km
spiked:12/15c shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280 #1 (blue)
US Champs, Badger Gulch, M35. Pretty clean, a few pretty small errors, but not very fast. 20 minutes out of the lead in the category (3rd), and a few more minutes for the course.
Tuesday Aug 5, 2014 #
pedaling (road bike) 43:20 [3] 17.67 km (2:27 / km)
From Mom's back to pick up the repaired car. Mom kept insisting that she should give me a ride, but I turned it down. Somewhat shorter route, via Ash St. all the way through Timberlee, but not the shortest possible route. Maybe a little warmer today, but not wearing a backpack.
Monday Aug 4, 2014 #
pedaling (road bike) 46:10 [3] 18.68 km (2:28 / km)
After dropping the car off for repairs, I rode over to Mom's to borrow her car. Via West Groton, up to my high school and behind it, down Spaulding St. and then by way of South Row Rd.
Back in the 1970s, my father was widely known for doing a very crazy thing:riding his bicycle to work. In that modern age, nobody did such a thing, when cars were so readily available (and gas was cheap). How long was this trek? I noted the time as I went past his old place of business, and it took 15 minutes from there.
Back in the 1970s, my father was widely known for doing a very crazy thing:riding his bicycle to work. In that modern age, nobody did such a thing, when cars were so readily available (and gas was cheap). How long was this trek? I noted the time as I went past his old place of business, and it took 15 minutes from there.
Sunday Aug 3, 2014 #
4 PM
running (trails) 2:35:31 [2] 14.9 km (10:26 / km) +481m 8:59 / km
shoes: GoLite Blaze Lite
Midstate Trail, Wachusett to Whitmanville. This section was generally not very runnable: rocky, twisty, narrow, and sometimes not marked too well. I jogged where I could, less and less as it went on, and there was one nice dowhnill at the end that was great running. I wore the shorts that I'll probably use in SD, and brought the pack with a full 2.5 liters of water (but no other gear), and I had my camera on the pack strap where I'm planning to carry it for easy access (that seemed to work fine). And I was able to snap pictures of a few highlights.
Redemption Rock, where something important apparently happened back in 1676.
Crow Hill, a popular rock climbing spot where I got my introduction to climbing back in 1978, in the same high school PE class that gave me my first orienteering experience soon after. Nobody climbing today, maybe people don't climb outdoors on real rock any more. In fact, I saw absolutely nobody all day, maybe people don't go outdoors any more.
The trail went right up to the top of those cliffs, and along the ridge, providing some nice views.
Evidence of how poorly maintained this section of the trail is: the menus stapled to the trees are over a month out of date!
I'm certain that I did the last section of this with PG a number of years ago, but it didn't look at all familiar. When I was nearly done, I saw for the first time a train on the railroad that runs along the edge of the Baldwin Hill map. Quite a long train, and I was glad that I had an underpass so that I didn't have to wait for it to pass.
No ticks (that I've found so far at least), a few FDFs, mosquitoes were fairly bad, but I was DEETed up and moving, until I was changing my shoes at the end and was sitting down with the DEET all gone by then. And about halfway through, I got stung on the ankle, through a pretty thick sock. Damn, I really hate that. Pretty much stopped hurting after about ten minutes.
Sections I've done on the trail (etc). so far:
Watatic to Windblown
Watatic to Whitmanville
Westminster Rd. to Wachusett
Wachusett to Whitmanville
I wonder how wong this twend will continue.
That's it for running training before my trip west, just a few short bike rides that I need to do this week. I guess I'm in as good shape as I'm going to be.
Redemption Rock, where something important apparently happened back in 1676.
Crow Hill, a popular rock climbing spot where I got my introduction to climbing back in 1978, in the same high school PE class that gave me my first orienteering experience soon after. Nobody climbing today, maybe people don't climb outdoors on real rock any more. In fact, I saw absolutely nobody all day, maybe people don't go outdoors any more.
The trail went right up to the top of those cliffs, and along the ridge, providing some nice views.
Evidence of how poorly maintained this section of the trail is: the menus stapled to the trees are over a month out of date!
I'm certain that I did the last section of this with PG a number of years ago, but it didn't look at all familiar. When I was nearly done, I saw for the first time a train on the railroad that runs along the edge of the Baldwin Hill map. Quite a long train, and I was glad that I had an underpass so that I didn't have to wait for it to pass.
No ticks (that I've found so far at least), a few FDFs, mosquitoes were fairly bad, but I was DEETed up and moving, until I was changing my shoes at the end and was sitting down with the DEET all gone by then. And about halfway through, I got stung on the ankle, through a pretty thick sock. Damn, I really hate that. Pretty much stopped hurting after about ten minutes.
Sections I've done on the trail (etc). so far:
Watatic to Windblown
Watatic to Whitmanville
Westminster Rd. to Wachusett
Wachusett to Whitmanville
I wonder how wong this twend will continue.
That's it for running training before my trip west, just a few short bike rides that I need to do this week. I guess I'm in as good shape as I'm going to be.
pedaling (road bike) 32:54 [2] 10.77 km (3:03 / km) +134m 2:53 / km
And the bike ride back to the car, followed immediately by heading off to buy Gatorade and ice cream.