Training Log Archive: bl

DP, raining hard as we set out, quickly stopped, ended up drizzle. Always nice to get out & 'test the water' before diving back inside - as into the work space. Bow Town truck was only a few seconds behind, parked w/in 25 yds. Thought I might be getting a chat about "no unauthorized vehicles beyond sign" but it's Friday and that wasn't the case.

Pincushion Days

about describe the past two. Needles here and there, seemingly everywhere. One in a Western vein, the others in an Eastern vein. Make a noticeable difference? Not yet.

Canned the drive-to-Maine-this-eve slip of sanity. Had my reasons for driving on a crappy Friday night to either row out in the dark to a boat likely rocking in wind & rain or, assuming sanity prevailed, sleep in the back of the station wagon. Fun denied.

TGIF: "Who said anything about fun?" (Z, 9/04)

First visit to TI in quite some time - boat prep & just plain "sunness" contrived to keep me away. 100 situps for "belly penance" due to ice cream etc consumption w/o burning off calories sufficiently. Weather-wise, a wet period with fairly hard rain and dark early.

PT visit, liked the fellow. Brought a tee shirt & shorts which were needed. Turns out, coincidentally, the selected tee shirt says "Deer Park" 1981 (with maybe another word or two) which I associate with Peekskill, ie, Blue Mountain (not sure why it doesn't say that) which is ironic because it was at this same place that I pulled the muscle making for this very office visit 30 years later. He tried dry needling which involved a nearly 3", fine gauge needle into the piriformis twice. Interesting that such a needle could go directly in with only minor discomfort.

C • Needling 2

First go at acupuncture. Had no idea what to expect. Was easy enough...needles here and there. Relaxing enough that I just about fell asleep around 1210...some Native American music interspersed with birdsong. Back Friday, PT tomorrow.

Got the scanner functioning again with new Vuescan. That along with the OCAD 10 on XP on a MAC was an unprecedented software success - failure usually wins.

DP, longer than bargained on. Bit of (hot) sun, mostly cloudy. DF's dominated, dogs had more than enough.

SPS wander, mix jog & walk. Chickens were curious to see me.

DP, fine early evening, in fact the first hour of summer if I recall from what Beth said. Fair weather sky, calm, a bit hot. Passed a painted turtle, told Z to leave it alone. Got back to car, sat on back fender for a few minutes. Then "time to go, Zoe" - she picked up the turtle I'd failed to see, expecting to bring it along like a favorite bone. She removed it from its mission maybe 300m.

An acupuncture appointment tomorrow, PT Thursday. Have OCAD 10 on the Mac which is indeed a nice feeling - now linked up to the web and consolidation as well.

C • Summer solstice 2

At SPS on grass & then on warm aluminum bleachers.

To & from SPS fields, daisies mostly, buttercups as well. Something lavender also.

DP straight out back to contours & and along and back. Over a knoll where an A meet control from '07 was placed. The last 150m of the approach then was reasonably open. Now it is a wall of white pine laced with downed branches/fallen trees, a veritable hell-hole capable of extracting the most vehement cursing.... That must be due to interfering with slow forest succession and all the resultant, exuberant growth. Crossed 200m of ferns and marshy stuff - that was different and then more ferns on dry ground. Z was beat (10 yrs old this Oct.)

Faraway series, photos from elsewhere # 69

Mt. Baker sunrise, North Cascades, Washington, July, 1980

Map walk with minimal field checking. Walked a 4.8k (FR 305 distance) green provisional course for October. Challenging terrain, gobs of green cutting visibility, excellent contours, surprisingly little rock except in a few areas.

Good to get a feel for course flow - consider green the 'backbone" course with red/blue longer, brown a bit less, orange a different consideration, W/Y too - last three perhaps 1/75 scale. Got sufficiently confused enroute #8 that I stopped, said to myself "go no further" (amongst green mansions but no "windows"); had most of a sandwich & some grapes. Was thinking a retreat to S or SE to Smith Pond but noted a bold contour not far - went to look - found a prominent 2 contour nose & could readily see where that was. Added an intermediate control, removing what had to be too difficult a leg.

Right leg put up with 5 mi walking. Wrenched a few times tripping or, once, removing a dead tree from a depression - sudden stress is not good!

Best part was being told entrance was free (NH resident over 65). Saw a fawn, nothing else, later people & numerous MTB'ers at end. Two tickling ticks since sitting down for this entry. Not too many mosquitoes.

June gem: emerald day

C • FR 5

DP, my turn & being hounded. No rest for the weary but actually feel pretty good after woods walk. Last night, the submorons (suitably descriptive word borrowed from SF) were shooting, started maybe around 8pm - not constantly but I bet 10' didn't go by w/o a barrage of bullet sounds. At 10:40p, I was po'd enough to drive over there to give 'em what for - and, who knows, have a gun pointed at me as well. The headlights revealed nothing (of course). Turned the engine off, sat there, cooling off. Noted some lightning bugs and frogs croaking in a nearby marsh and that was it. Effective might be to call police at first shot (anything after 7p?) or ride a bike over for look-see, maybe see if they arrived in a motor vehicle & note LP #.