Training Log Archive: bl

DP near work returning from NHH - Upton-Morgan SF, a small green patch by Clinton.

Night #3 outback at Pine Haven for lack of a more imaginative name. Walked out with stars, sound of silence-type night broken by coyotes yacking & yelping (maybe 4 sessions, starting & stopping so suddenly). Then first light pitter patter of rain. No reason not to sleep well but for some reason really was up most of night - ascribed to change of venue & forgetting the Tyl PM.

UNO Silver Lake SP local meet. Theme was get out orienteering, regardless of wx. 33F & wet snow in Bow on departure, 41F rain in Hollis. Maybe B run, went to all except #12 on far side of a field. Foggy vision much of time. Crossed field behind another runner, went left as he did, stopped paying (foggy) attention - & that probably was 90". Enroute 4, got to end of peninsula, looking west & not NW, thinking the crossing was flooded - nearly stepped into thigh-deep cold but took a peek around the corner after some basic orientation with the map. Too cold contemplating, too hot by #6, wanted to discard a shirt but didn't get around to it. Wasn't really good in the orchard. I think it would have been better to go a little left or right for the orchard roads (right on 7 to 8). Crossing rows was slower than I would have thought as the trees overlapped. Woods & fields provided fun variation. The depression controls were well placed. One really had to see the depression to see the control. Right ham soreness as cautionary feedback.

Mtg after, 11 f us, got a bunch of stuff done, BD at BBSP is starting to loom as a reality with work & deadlines!

Green - Splits

AM DP, chilly, blue/bright. To the calm waters of the slough & back. Birdsong.

SPS track, no plan, bit lacking from yesterday. Gravitated to 8x200, walk 100 between - 50-52".

C • Deuces.. 2

Warmup & down.

DP blustery, chill. Porkie season has begun, had a quill puller but chose the Sandbox with little likelihood of untoward sharp objects

Sandbox shapes, sculpted by unknown artist....



juxtaposed: "Deception in Rock and Sand"

Run home from NHH, NW windy, windy - picked a southerly route right from the starting block. Ducked into woods which made for a nice "surf & turf" experience. Decent energy, still a bit chilled when said & done. Hot shower was the rx.

Raw, drizzly, east wind, short changed dogs who didn't notice.

Finally went to O-ringen entry, had some trouble with getting registration page in English, was showing Beth who noticed the key I hadn't seen. Could understand the "Klicka har!" and "Logga in" but was seeing yellow triangles with black exclamations inside when I tried the obvious.

C • Priorities 2

Luti CW. Same gray chill but 15' after starting it went unnoted. Continued along Pleasant to Fruit for change. Finally caught up to the fellow who was ahead 2.5 mi earlier - was quite curious. SPS & CHS featured kids in shorts
as if it were cool....

DP, gray. Beth the "Saab" story as in sob, Beth left/lost? her car coffee cup 10 days ago in the forest. Parked it on a stump & forgot to pick it up. Told me the next day but neither of us had/took time to see if it was still there. Today is the day for the road not taken & voila! right on the stump where she'd parked it (and 400m from where I thought she said she put it - did I say "O challenged"?). Its existence was as far from my mind as a 2' snowfall is today but unlike the falling, the cup's sighting was a warm moment (of repossession).

Warmup.

SPS track, gray, light wind, light rain at end, 45F. Started out ok (7' pace being the goal) but lost enthusiasm, partly a time factor, partly blah-type day.

1:47, 3:30, 5:20, 6:59, 98

Took PC to work, turned on first time in maybe 2 months. Tickled memory with OCAD, Bear Brook being part of the reason. A moderate amount of field checking is needed but my role is minimal unless I find a different mind set which is not happening. Also was reminded this PC has Terrain Navigator on it which includes every topo in NE states (on separate CDs). It also has C-maps which contains most every nautical chart in the world. It's been there maybe 3 years. Think if came off a single CD. Was looking at Valdivia, Chile, then up the Peruvian coast, then over to Capetown, finally Scotland - all there in useable detail, all free - someone gave it to me. Needless to say, renewed appreciation for this middle-of-the-road 7 y/o PC I bought from Ed Hicks for OCADing Nottingcook in '06 for $200.

Quiet at the gym for a Monday - 60F probably had a lot to say.

Boston marathon watching was awesome! Fight to the finish was one theme and why not considering how much winning was worth. Way to go USA!

Faraway series, photos from elsewhere, #61

Half Dome reflected, '00

DP with Beth as well. Found rest of blazes.
Last spring's beech leaves awaiting their relief

Chilly DP, good marathon day says the paper. Slept out (#2), place needs a name. Windy (levels of roar as all trees are pines) but cozy. Sometime in the middle of the night, I was thinking that there isn't a hardwood in sight from the tent (which proved true) and I could only think of one rock between us and the house about 400 yards away.

PSP with Beth. Hiked to top of North Mt. I went on, she returned same way. Had an O map but getting to south side of South Mt. was too much for today so came back on North Mt. bypass. A lot of pretty woods and trails, one huge cliff, bigger than any I recall from a place like WP. Had been on same trail around 2003, remembered some. Map is rogaine-style accuracy calling for interpretation & hunching in a few places. Also saw the boulder field which was impressive - a number of boulder-climber types there. Nice to see P-way from another, non-O perspective. There's more to life than just orienteering.... Oh, blasphemy!

Atop North Mountain



A portion of Dead Pond, NE of North Mt.



Indeed big but nothing for scale


Warm enough for the cold-bloodeds

C • Nature on the move 3