Training Log Archive: CleverSkyIn the 7 days ending Jun 13, 2020:
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| « | » |
| » now | ||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |||||||
| Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa | |||||||
Saturday Jun 13, 2020 #
11 AM
Note
Scary moment of yard work: I was pulling up bittersweet in Nancy's front yard and stepped back onto the top of the retaining wall. The uppermost stone, something a bit less than a foot square in cross section by four feet long (basically, very heavy) decided to take up a new residence at the foot of the wall. I avoided being crushed, but ended up out in the street in front of an oncoming car, which somehow didn't hit me.
In other news, there's a baby bird in the robin's nest in the bush in her front yard (in the bog down in the valley-o).
In other news, there's a baby bird in the robin's nest in the bush in her front yard (in the bog down in the valley-o).
2 PM
hiking (sand) 20:35 [1] 1.47 km (14:01 / km)
shoes: no
Nancy usually gets an annual beach pass to Crane Beah, as she did this year, but then they instituted a policy where you also have to sign up for a time slot on a specific day, and they limit the number of cars at any time. As soon as she signed up for the pass, she went to the reservation system and they were full up for the next month. They changed it so that you can now only sign up a few days in advance, and last Thursday she spent 45 minutes on the website and for a slot for 1PM to 6PM today. So we got our face masks and went to the beach. This was from the car to where we set up the beach chairs. Fortunately, her favorite lobster roll place was open, so she was able to have a happy lunch.
hiking (sand) 1:14:09 [1] 5.45 km (13:36 / km)
shoes: no
Down to about the end of the beach and back. I think I got my face sunburned, but the rest of me is fine because it was cool enough that I didn't have much skin exposed.
hiking (sand) 25:14 [1] 1.47 km (17:11 / km) +2m 17:03 / km
shoes: no
And back to the parking lot, where they were setting up for the Ipswich HS commencement ceremony tonight. The graduates all meet somewhere, have a car parade through town, then they end up in the beach parking lot where there's a drive-in movie style ceremony with big video screens mounted on trucks, restricted to graduates and their families. It's a weird year.
Friday Jun 12, 2020 #
6 PM
orienteering (course setting) 1:13:32 [3] 7.07 km (10:24 / km) +157m 9:22 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280 #1 (blue)
WBSW, some on trails, some exploring unmapped woods, some checking out the fieldwork. I found a trail that I've run past countless times without noticing it (I found it by cutting through the woods).Turns out that it's a well-established trail that mostly goes through one of the densest and most extensive laurel ranches I've ever seen. But it also goes to one of the highest spots in the park, which I'd intended to try to get to for a while.
Thursday Jun 11, 2020 #
7 PM
running (trails) 42:13 [3] 5.76 km (7:20 / km) +26m 7:10 / km
shoes: Inov-8 Oroc 280 #1 (blue)
Robbs Hill. Earlier it had been warm and sticky, but when I went out it was cool and clammy. Checked out some trails I had seen before but not been on, or at least, partly not been on. Some of them were pretty small. The GPS track is not so great, for the most part, if it looks like I was maybe on the same trail a second time, then I was.
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020 #
6 PM
running (trails) 22:27 [3] 3.3 km (6:48 / km) +11m 6:42 / km
shoes: GoLite Blaze Lite
A little run around a part of the Cowdrey that Nancy and I didn't go to, then across the street and I ran around the trailer park including the back section that I didn't know existed, then a little on the ATV trails betwwen the trailer park and the road, then another little loop in the Cowdrey. The snowmobiles appparently have some way to get between the Cowdrey and the trails that lead north from Robbs Hill, but I haven't figured that out yet. I did find this map, but it doesn't seem to work very well. Hmm... OK, I tricked it into showing me whatt I wanted to see, and it seems to indicate that they go on the road down Mass Ave and up The Lane and then into the orchard.
Tuesday Jun 9, 2020 #
8 PM
running (trails) 26:55 [2] 2.81 km (9:34 / km) +32m 9:03 / km
shoes: Merrill Bare Access XTR
Someplace on the way home from flying, just ahead of The Dim. I spotted a jeep trail so I pulled over, and started on what I thought might be an out and back. But I got to the power line and figured I might as well go back that way, because power lines always have a trail, right? Overgrown and eventually too swampy and I had to back out (well, I had to get these new shoes muddy sometime) and work around it through the woods. Finally made it up to the next tower, and the trail resumed, but still overgrown. When I got to the paved road I figured I was done, until I spotted another trail that didn't go too far before dissipating, and at the end I tried the trail across the road, but that was no bargain either. Didn't kill me, made me stronger.
Monday Jun 8, 2020 #
5 PM
pedaling (road bike) 51:41 [3] 22.48 km (2:18 / km) +218m 2:12 / km
A loop on the Incubus. Finally managed to have a day that was a little easier, or at least a little shorter. Very nice weather. Saw a big ol' snapping turtle making her way across the road at one point.
6 PM
Note
Little bit: took apart the remaining corner of the roof of the big shed, and dismantled the south wall. About 75 minutes, I think.
Sunday Jun 7, 2020 #
3 PM
hiking (trails) 2:40:34 [1] 11.74 km (13:41 / km) +47m 13:25 / km
shoes: Oboz Sawtooth II
A loop that Nancy scoped out from her house, almost entirely on trails. We stopped and did most of the exercise stations in Grassy Pond.
8 PM
Note
Some yard work at Nancy's including discovering the incredible utility of the leaf vacuum that I've had for a couple of decades but never really used.
And I realized that my street finally showed up on Google Maps street view, images from last September.
And I realized that my street finally showed up on Google Maps street view, images from last September.