Training Log Archive: bl

Event: US S/M/L Champs 2011 & WRE
 

Warm up

Sprint - would give it a B. Not careful enough enough of the time. Nicely mapped area but allowed myself to get out of touch a bit too much. On #2, had trouble with bldg vs wall vs what I thought was parking as well as open concrete walking surface. Lost a bunch on #7 but was cheered by Ernst's tale of woe on trivial #8! Did a 180 departing #10, good for maybe 80m round trip. Dangerously close to going to #17, skipping 16...phew!! Nice day even if so long in car for 23' - wonderful weather. Fun to talk with usual and unusual folk. Judy Karpinski told me tales of woe as a social worker in the locality. Columbia St. was a world very different from anything in NH north of Manchester. Was about 2hr 10' home for 68mi. Bit irritable by time was ready to turn in drive. A lone car coming the opposite way (now dark) - could have gone in w/o waiting but courtesy said let it pass. It slowed & stopped - whoa, Bob, don't be irritable! The driver (a lady) asked if I needed something. I said I needed to turn left into my drive lickety split. . We had a chuckle over that as she apologized. Sometimes we do indeed have positive interactions, we homo sapiens. No bad aches/pains/stiffnesses. Hamstring held up. If all is intact after this weekend, then time to profess "injury-free". Easy to see all the effort put into meet preparations. Wanted to take a walk about in FP - lots of stuff of interest (eg, whatever cp #2 represented), much going into neglect - but felt the need to move on.

Finish view

Had in mind naming as many as possible but the list went on with zoom

Green Sprint - Splits

Today's activity.

a product of discussion at our Bow Open Spaces meeting a month ago. Trying to get townspeople (kids/parents) into our/their forest(s).

Slough & back, gray, rain due. Back hoe running the 18' I was there, no one in sight.

Winant Hill before rain - started just as I was finishing. Not there since
green leaves of summer. Nice colors. Hot uphill - took off T-neck which
made for a 10% energy improvement tho legs dull from yesterday.

BB Brown Saturday. About a B; have to QR later. New legs, some different views of map. Occ too small a boulder mapped - did not have cp descriptions. #2 called for circle cutting. #6...that small bldr? #7...2 bldrs should be on small knoll? #12 - did not find, not sure how high, indistinct marsh boundary to say the least. Fun time!
QR

Getting to/finding start. had never been & some of map was missing > some deducing. Hayes Field empty - last there, there was sun & people. MTBers when I returned.

Bear Brook Brown (Sun) - Splits

AM DP in jogging mode. Bright & brisk. 2 days rest. Hamstring making noises after Friday 50/50s.

South, Iron Works, Clinton, Langley into woods. One lap on CHS track at 7:34 pace. 790 mi on Locos but pliable soles are kind to left achilles.

Honest yard work, gym equivalent. Consolidating logs from all over the place. Can't bear to see fire wood go wasting - go out of the way in gathering. 2 deer ticks tickling for my efforts. Couldn't kill one of the hardy souls by squeezing. Wrap them up in handy waste paper - too many trips to the toilet otherwise (on some days).

Not the weekend I was looking for but of note anyway, Beth drove 720 mi for the cause which was a failed attempt to get boat to Portsmouth.

Muscongus is a rock garden with a variety of route choice


Sea & sky


Quicksilver