Training Log Archive: bl

Lolled about at noon, spent time searching for hamstring rehab cures & potions. Found some promise (can cynics find promise:-) here. Some hot-cold contraptions as well as consideration of home US. $ can buy happiness...?

Thought about the varied weekend (865mi on the road): memorial service, TT SUNY campus sprint, Peekskill forest and WPR camping with its interesting offerings. Nice time, no cost benefit analysis. Thanks to those who make things happen! It also marked the end of the spring 0 season, in case the heat wasn't making that point. Emailed OCAD today, requesting instructions on how to get OCAD 10 "out of hock" so as to get on with BB course planning.

C • Hot-Cold Contraptions 2

DP in Sandbox, hot, dry, no water, deserted "desert" except for prints and pleased-enough dogs.

Faraway series, photos from elsewhere, #66

(a Monday guest from as far away as Ward Pound Ridge)
"Ferns first appear in the fossil record 360 million years ago in the Carboniferous period"- Wikipedia. It's prime time for ferns at 7 Allen as well.
And the deer kept away from the hostas in our absence this past weekend so maybe an effective solution.

TT long, 8.6k. Walked 1 mile each way to shelter w/o any trouble but when jogging to loosen up, could see that it was going to be a problem - stiffness/soreness that did not go away - definitely diminished capacity at start but hard to quantify. So started w/ doubt..."just get thru accurately" - did ok til 10-11, getting a bit less accurate. Small error at 5, but saw Charlie, caught nearly 4' but he got ahead again to be seen again at 7, which I found first. Followed Marie Arnesson (?) off to 8, we both went left of intention (my conclusion); got to 8 after Charlie & Marie who went an entirely different way. Ken Walker caught/passed me at 11, I followed out to path, he went left, I went right then thought his way looked better, turned, took a few steps & got some fairly sharp pains up & down back of right leg and that was that, couldn't run. Was only 400 m or so from finish, straight line anyway. 305 has the route. Time to try QR as I have the tools (not true today's try revealed). Not sure why the line to SUNY!

May started w/ promise at WP, ended with uncertainty in Peekskill. Don't want to think about it near future - can't imagine running for awhile, maybe stuff at gym. Less than 2 mos. for Europe. Why me, why May, why hamstring?:-). The answer is blowing in the wind but it does exist. Throbbed all spring when on a long car ride - needed to shift weight to left side. Asked PG if he stretched - he said "no" and further stated that days of stretching, for him, were associated with periods of "frailty"...what works for some doesn't necessarily work for others.

Spoke with Dave Pruden, saw Steve Templeton in passing. Way positive notes: prior to red start, found my compass well put away but in the "wrong" place. And, namely, when cleaning out the car after returning home (vacuuming behind the front passenger seat, there was a black rectangular object...the missing wallet from last October, the one that disappeared w/o a whimper! (but of course). How many times and how carefully had I looked at every possible nook and cranny in that car... $18 "reward" plus a few other things and some now-worthless credit card plastic.



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Night at Milestone shelter in PWR. Had to walk a mile, thus the name. In a clearing surrounded by open forest, ferns, a spring (covered by a small stone "house" for protection). Light sleep, mosquitos, no repellent but they went away as I was perfecting the art of covering up from mosquito whine/threat - tho' that made warm almost hot. Mocha barked at something as well. Up early & back to car, lots of birdsong. Not sure what affect, if any, on today...a weird night's rest but felt ok at start, putting leg doubt and certainly poor-night's-sleep doubt aside.

"Heard you're packing to leave..."* - Milestone

S&G ♪

C • GPX and Ham 5

Red TT - Splits

Event: US Team Trials for WOC '11
 

Saturday: operative word was "hot". B minus run due to #8. Haven't seen splits but it felt like maybe a minute lost - do not have mastery of ISSOM symbols & certain significances, esp. as applies to campus/cities with large &/or complicated buildings as well as walls - where a cul-de-sac etc could cost critical time. On #8, ran more or less under the control! So a bit disappointed - about 2' behind PG, within a minute would have been of satisfaction. Distance a guess.

1 - ok but stairs/gray need more facile interpretation - don't know what gray indicates & no legend readily available - esp not at this picnic table at WPR where I'm writing. Maybe at start area earlier - but maybe for TT, ISSOM is familiar but there were a lot who would have benefited from this info.

4 - not sure of what feature was but could see control thru fence; spending extra seconds knowing what the feature is & where it is might very well save time - tend to run to feature in the center of the circle, not necessarily knowing what exactly it is - usually get away with it.

5 similar - ran to center of circle yet not knowing what I was looking for & where; in my case, control descriptions needed to have been more readily available (were on shorts at waist lvl, no shirt on)

8 - was not able to read map, potential for 3-dimensional situation/confusion

10 - had already driven thru the tunnel 2x looking for meet site, so could figure it out!

Right hamstring disgruntled at requests made of it

7 to 8:

oops, pic omits top of tunnel - ran to its end, saw the light of day & wide open spaces (on a 1/4000 map) and thought "uh oh". Turned around and found a staircase before oblivion set in. Can see depression tic line on map but making the appropriate observations OOB in the heat is another process.

No FR route for some reason....

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Dropped Beth off at WPR about 10:30 with plan of a 10 mi hike with O map. Went over a route, plan was to meet at XC center at 5p. Stopped at office before heading off to learn that shelter 6 was available. Was avail yesterday am but being a mile walk, I wasn't interested. After driving some 10 mi away on way to Liberty Corner, decided a license to park in WPR was worth something, called, but it was gone. Today it was available - last minute Memorial Day weekend camping is not likely, I was reminded. Last night's $108 room was fine but nowhere near as nice as this moment at a picnic table, breeze, sun, green & shelter waiting, located on O map.

Spent some 90' looking for meet locale @ SUNY Purchase! Arrived before signs, went to main campus. Asked a campus police officer who had no clue. Went to the admin police office, still no. Asked some students at a bus stop re wifi (campus quiet, between sessions). Even provided a password but no luck. Finally approached a group of 30+ visiting musicians (clueless) but they pointed out a woman who might be able to help. No wifi signal adjacent to the Performing Arts center but she took me to her office for a hardwired computer. Nearly 5' later we found the crucial words: "PhysEd building parking lot" and she provided a campus map. Some runners said there was a late-posted map but, interestingly enough, we did not see in our complete perusal (so I thought). An addition to the annals of finding the start triangle.

Under Father Time and too hot for a shirt

C • #8 6

C • Wicked.. 1

Red - Splits

Mentally, warming up for the TT, not as in competing tho that should be fun - as in Harrison/Purchase, WPR/Rte 35/Katonah & Blue Mountain. The last was the site of an A meet back in November, 1980 - the month/year I bought RHODORA & brought her back from the Chesapeake, missing the meet. Back then, missing close-enough A meets was not something well tolerated. This was close enough that I drove there about a month later to run the courses (recall the ground being white). Also in those days, I owned GYPSY, a camping van and was able to sleep on the map without anyone disturbing me. Wonder if that is still possible on December nights...it might be.

WPR full for the weekend - as was Mountain Lakes! Que lastima! Went on to Liberty Corner for CBE memorial service at LCPC, 90F kind of day. Visited Harry Dunham park for dogs' cooling, Mocha found a "roll supreme" and stunk to high heaven, the latter in keeping with the message of the service. After service, spent an hour at English Farm, noting an end of an era ('66-present) as well as significance of grand and great-grand kids. Sorry to have left w/o taking a single photo. Then 287 to 87 to Newburgh as tent plans are the best laid plans of mice and men for the time being. No enthusiasm for hide-away in Harriman as once might have been the case. Could wifi peruse from the Days Inn parking lot and now inside a room. "No pets" allowed sign but they're quite at home & can be seen from here.

Room with a view


TGIF: "What, me worry?"

Molly, 1997 (wearing bone talisman from a birthday steak for Duke, '74)

C • Harry Dunham Park 2

Good energy, hot! Singlet provided decent defense so did SW wind when
coming at me, shade-seeking as well.

Off to NY-NJ, incl the some of the TT! - just as if it were some 30 years ago.....

Luti CW, got hot! Took off shirt which I've become more self-conscious about doing - in somewhat public setting - but better that than heat stroke.

DP, fair-weather clouds, all's right with the World for the moment.