Training Log Archive: CleverSky

US 2-Day Champs, Pound Ridge, Red M35, 7.9 km, 270 m. Mostly pretty good. SA doesn't show my error on #3, where I navigated the long leg cleanly to the circle, and then walked right past the control, so that was about 1.5 minutes. #6 I overshot by a few meters, but the bigger problem was the needlessly roundabout route that I took to get there. #7 and #8 I just got to the circle and had trouble deciphering the busy stuff on the map: contours and rock in the first case, small knolls and laurel in the second. Ended up 20th (middle of the field), but 3rd on M35 for the day, behind biggins and Patrick Shannon.

My favorite kind of AGM, the kind where I count votes and basically don't have to be at the meeting at all. I was joking around about what we'd do if there were a tie, and I had momentary horror when I looked at the spreadsheet totals and saw that there was. Fortunately, it was a resolvable issue, and I take some pride in having taken charge to allow it to resolve itself without the need for a second ballot. And I think the election turned out just fine. Now let's see where this BoD takes us.

Having missed the Silva Service Award announcement, I was also quite pleased when I heard afterwards that Barb was the honoree -- quite deserving.

Bruce Freeman rail trail SW out of Chelmsford and back. I've now ridden the whole thing (not counting the part that's still under construction). Rode until I recognized something from my previous outing (from the opposite direction), then turned around at the next road crossing. At the beginning, a small group of people on bicycles passed by when I was preparing to mount, and since they were riding very casually, I tried to stay with them, unsuccessfully, but I kept them in sight for about eight minutes. After that, I still kept the pace up, so this was quite a bit faster than usual.

Pawtuckaway Red, 5.4 km. Watch was still out of battery, so I used my regular watch. It's clear that the start box was off by about 30 seconds all weekend, as both my Saturday and Sunday times were 30 seconds faster on my watch. Navigation went fine (I was mostly walking), except that I had trouble going in the right direction to find the dam to get off of Big Island. I had the advantage over a lot of people of not starting until after the brief, intense rainstorm had passed.