Training Log Archive: JanetT

Cloudy and 52...a typical fall day (this, or sunny and 52-55, is how I like my fall days).
From the P.O., up Pratt Road to Bachus

Encountered a little girl (4-5?) on her front porch as I walked past who waved and said hi so I stopped to chat. She was dressed in camouflage and said she was going hunting. She had a small backpack and said that in it was a stuffed moose with floppy antlers. Her dad, also dressed in camo, came outside shiortly thereafter and I said goodbye and continued on my way.

The live in what's probably the smallest house in Malden Bridge along with two dogs. The house is sold every few years, listed at about the same price each time.

First snow of the season that's sticking, but still not much to write home about. Hope it doesn't stick around.

Started lying down and worked our way up to lunges with the ring, before moving back down to the mat.

15:06/15:29/3:50 with a stretching break between the miles to loosen lower back.

Good class, almost constant movement.

With lots of upper body stuff as well.

15:09/15:28/3:36

Event: WCOC Hurd State Park
 

Nice course by George W to get us around Hurd SP again. Nice day, too, sunny and low 50s with breeze and occasional gusts which had me just a tad worried about falling branches. SL, 5.1 km, on a 1:10000/5m map

1 was I think on a different boulder than the circled one, but visible from where it should have been... Fairly straight to 2-3-4, then decided for some reason to swing by 2 on the way to 5. I got too far down the hill and west, then had to climb back up. Along the way I saw what I thought was an unmarked mine (see next entry), not far from the E-W trail that goes by the others, but it's there west of the line (north of the purple dot), just really hard to see. That cost me as I had to climb several more contours than I intended to.

Slow to find the flag at 9 not knowing where on the cliff it was. More veg than I expected to 10, and it might have been faster to use the trail to 11 (I stayed east of the barberry/vertical green, below the steep hillside until it got less steep. Other "errors" marked by AP are basically because I'm very slow on climbs (12-finish). At least I never got too lost; 5 was my biggest boo-boo.

To check out another mine (shown on the map with a boulder and a boulder cluster) that I went by on the way from 4-5. It confused me enough I tried to figure out the trails rather than just keeping on the line on my green course.

C • Mine 2

Went to Gillette Castle SP, just to see it. I read some of Becks' blog post about it to Glen. We agree that it's pretty mental. ;-)

Then we took a short hike on the trails and saw some big trees (oaks).

And we stopped at Devil's Hopyard SP on the way back north, and hiked down by the waterfalls to the covered bridge and back th other side. I forgot to turn on my watch until near the end.

Green - Splits