Training Log Archive: bl

Event: UNO Pawtuckaway Camping Weekend
 

Green, Camping weekend. Give this a C/C+. It was sunny, I had decent energy and the untested (in O) hamstring did not complain thru the course. Had correct dress of singlet, shorts & no gaiters.The third control was the center of 2 loops - first time, pretty much got it tho it was a tough area UNLESS one made good note of the 5 large boulders to the north, groups of 3 and 2. Second approach, I ran in a few circles & found it but added no knowledge as to how to find it again. Third time, from a new direction, last point of certainty just 110m to the NW and came to where I should be looking - was at the gp of 2 boulders - did a lot of fanning out & returning. FINALLY, I looked long and hard & realized which boulders they were. By then had lost 5-6'. Around 12' total (am often underestimating, splits post will help), missed 7 of 14 to some extent.

Dinner time



pre-Vampire & Night O gathering

Night O, dry, good conditions. 22 starters. Got out to good start. Maybe even 5th to first control. 100m on, my lens fell out of my glasses (not a surprise but had not happened for weeks - headlamp had a bit to do with it). Maybe 3' later got going. Had seen Alar a good bit behind due to overrunning 1. He passed me & was ahead - his was the only light. Was looking lonely/gloomy but to my surprise, there were several lights leaving #2, making it easy to find & depart. After departure, lights disappeared but then Ed Kotowski came into my visual sphere. Not long after Hans B. We 3 went around the E end of Mymeeba Pond more or less together then spread out. As we approached 3, there were numerous lights. Ahah, company! From three to seven, was cozy with lights left, right, ahead, behind - ahead they would converge to the likely point.... In the midst was the weird laughing that was JJ - did not learn til today. Thought it was a crazy runner but why always in the same place.... Noted Ken W in front of me on way to 7. He saw it, I looked where he headed, saw it. In departing, there were numerous lights searching to the NE. Pretty much straight to 8, running on the green belt of Incredible Pond - fun running to the ridge & along. On nine, I had doubts where I was at times, Ken W was leading, Garry G and an unidentified women were just behind. We got to vicinity of 9 but "all the kings horses & horsemen" failed to turn it up with combined search illumination. We wandered to Fundy Tr. south of it. The lady opted out after a few minutes. The three of us went in again. When the stone wall failed to appear, I was out of there, thinking 60' was enough anyway & this was double. Garry & Ken returned around 1145pm. Energetic youngsters they be. Pleased enough tho unfortunate to go so far to 9 & fail to find. Had 6v light on my waist as well as small led for map reading. really need to take the plunge and buy a proper night O light. Good, unique fun. Grade: B/B- (not finding #9).

Night O - Splits

Green - Splits

AM DP bright, blue, breezy. Wandered in the woods near the "pond" - dementia practice....

Breezy, still cool, cw over Winant Hill for the good sw views. Matter of fact, first cool midday run I recall in a very long time.

Some orienteering this weekend after a long period of idle time.

TGIF, Molly at Fox Forest, March, 19, 2000

Mellow AM DP in the Sandbox, no one around..."not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse"...
Chasing the ball, seems more Z's thing; M's is 'bone bossing'

After work run/DP, tired. Cool, breezy, dogs beat, too. Crunchy leaves tho not quite the right colors. Busy day at work & window project here. Diane's last work day as well...and too much refined sugar* on G unit.

*what whither, where for Ty 2 diabetes in America:

it's everywhere one might cast one's glance;
will, eventually, there be one last chance?

...before diabetes galore,
unheard heretofore...
wreaks from shore to shore.

Who knows? time will tell -
And cast its (likely) ugly spell.*

(*time's passage spells everything accurately)

I roughly recall when I met Diane. I was finishing a January, '08 run and sensed a runner running up behind me. That was Diane. The other time I recall a woman runner running behind me was Jenny Taylor-Tuthill (unknown to me at the time; Boston marathon early notable) at a Fresh Pond Sat am (2.5, prob 5) mi race c. 1971 - she, a noisy runner, like me, was unforgetful...the two "last" women runners I won't forget.

Two rats on an islet (one evidently smarter than the other), having abandoned the proverbial sinking ship



A refined sugar smile

AM DP bright, blue, breezy. Wandered in the woods near the "pond" - dementia practice....

Luti 5 with Diane, last workday run with her. Sad to say - she's on her way - to Manchester VA - for a social work position thatta pay - 50% more. Was breezy & cool - surprised me. We were pretty slow.... Not sure I've been over 60'.

PM DP, cloudy/cool. Found a tennis ball, threw it just over top of say 18' dune - dogs race up...where did it go...? Thought the white pickup was Got Snow's but luckily not. Put 1.7 qts of oil in the station wagon while on the PL where seeing was believing. Should not relinquish attention to such detail to others.
Had two Scottish 6 day maps for perusal. Bought a light that just happened upon at Auto Zone for night O - maybe it will do the trick cheaply...or bridge me over til next pay raise.

SPS noon, got hot, so shade seeking like last week. Had 3 WP maps from last spring (oh so long ago!): Grn Y1&2 and Beth's brown. Y1 4 sloppy controls of 11; Y2 3 of 13; 7 wayward controls in 2 days - 5 too many....?

PM DP - 'no' was not an option.

Faraway series, photos from elsewhere, #32
A stroll on the beach, Grenada, 1987



Enforced rest...11 hours from dropping mooring pennant to arriving in driveway - no interest.

Waiting with company for the sun's first rays

Middle Road, North Shore again, but CCW. Breezy, cool, started 0720. 3 cars (first after 28'), 2 people, 3 crows, one perfect skeleton (dog/coyote), various runned over creatures on the road.... Bright and beautiful.

A side path to Penobscot shoreline



Mirage-like, a road on and on, up and down



Road art - have always wondered how the artist makes his strokes (but am not up at such a creative hour)



Went on to Horseshoe Cove to visit Ann and Aaron. Dinner with them, fantastic phosphoresence on the water in returning - each oar dip was a veritable Milky Way. Up at dawn to see first rays on shore, boat, rocks.

A2 (NEOCers from the '70s' thru 2000) and Beth at their lovely place by the water