Training Log Archive: bl

Bear Brook round Hayes field - some trails to walk/GPS, a lot of green. Hot in the sun. One trace was pretty much along a straight wall, another on a SVT - neither looks enough like what I believe I walked. Another wastwice along a narrow path and traces are more separate than one might expect. Still should be a lot easier to locate than by compass/pace with vague contours.

Wrenched the hamstring but good tripping in ferns & green crap following a ruined stone wall - must have missed its message.... Not happy.

C • Technical training? 11

Bear Brook fieldwork. Didn't think I'd visit this section but was there so why not. GPS trace should be helpful. Too many ticks by end of day - when Lyme infects wood ticks we'll really be in trouble.

Certainly leafless photos. Some nice stretches of deciduous.

DP with Beth to Stone Sled conservation easement. Some nice woods, rocky.
Started at pump house, finally found the trail, took it toward right-hand corner and then back toward left - it went on somewhere, we turned around. Condo development itself is a bit depressing - unfinished, lots of scraggly, thick brush where woods leveled, some trash lying around. Easy access from Parson's Way.

DP to Hammond Nature Preserve belonging to Bow - 155 acres, mostly field, some woods at far end. Looks like Scouts use it mostly - tables, campfire sites, stick games. Thought Z was going to pack it in with her breathing & gimpiness. Not to mention being two tone: yellow top, black bottom from some unseen swamp. Guess I wasn't very considerate but I want to get a feel for town properties and Z&M want to come along....

View from Hammond cemetery


Save the last ride for me...

DP short & sweet - bright blue, crisp, breezy. Mocha's pet therapy day & needed to get back for a bath...rid her of favorite scents.

Made a discovery yesterday - the episodic right groin aching/burning periodically experienced appears to have declared itself as an inguinal hernia. I wondered if it might not somehow be related to the hamstring issue. Yesterday was uncomfortable enough to pay attention: localized tenderness, a small swelling and enough discomfort to be distracting. This occurred while mapping so lay down on ground, put feet up on a tree trunk & it quickly disappeared - and did not reappear over the next 75' of walking. Another thing to contend with in the near future.

Evening DP w/ Beth as well. Pathetic amount of calorie burning on my part. Miss real, carefree running. More dry needling about which I'm developing a complex, eg, damn uncomfortable and so far w/o discernible result.

July 4th around here. Maybe 2 good days of field work @BB. Spent a reasonable (maybe unreasonable seeing as it was at work) amount of time pondering a portion of base map today. It's satisfying to be able to see much of .33 km sq in one's mind.

DP, cool and just right length for Z&M. No Tiffany's crowd for some reason this year. So little mileage!!

Map walk with field checking at Bear Brook. Drove well into the forest - had not been in that part for quite some time - used to run a 6 mi loop on the same road. Not too hot or too buggy. Always a slow process getting things right. Takes more than one look-see for me. First pass get-acquainted, second mostly right, third better be right or right as can be.

Walked up to a streamer wondering if it served an O purpose but saw that it was occupied for another purpose.

Meetings & acupuncture whiled away the time. At acp, a different lady was talking about her husband just finishing first year FP residency at CH (bl was first resident there, '95). She was saying she hoped the next 2 years would afford more time. I made some comment about Concord being a pleasant community in which to work (a lot less stress than, say, NYC) and that I had chosen Newton-Wellesley Hospital for similar reasons in '77. She informed me that that was her husband's previous place of work as an ICU nurse. I was then telling her that I had an old RN girlfriend from there who became an acupuncturist among other things. Lots of needles was the reward, apparently.

Faraway series, photos from elsewhere, #70
Cape Horn astern (voyage of ANNA CHRISTINE, Bergen, February, '82)

C • That old Norwegian flag loo... 3

DP, happy dogs after 3 nights in kennel. Hot & loads of FDFs. Deer remains completely gone - a few hairs & 2 plastic bags.

PT with more dry needling - 3 times right butt, give it a 5/10 for a few moments each time. A distraction on the jog.

Dix I walk, brief after weeding wacking Lyman's place - mini-exercise. Dix
offers a few variations on running the perimeter with excellent views. Miss
not being able to do for time being. Raw by the water, walk was mostly away from wind and in part in woods. Next time I return to Dix, I'll have been to Sweden & Scotland with the insight re the physical status quo that that will produce. A weekend of fog for the most part. Visible shoreline occasionally reduced to mere imagination. Navigation, however, still remains generally trivial with boat icon showing current position on chart and radar's magenta display showing invisible shore and objects (buoys, other boats etc). Technology enables one to venture out but the senses (6th as well) atrophy.

A ship's prow in passing


Chart plotter/radar navigation


First rays