Training Log Archive: bl

Sunday brown from 2007 BD A meet - don't think I ever ran it right thru, just in pieces. On the dark side in pines after five. Decent steady effort - accurate but having made map & course, any needed relocating is generally not too difficult. #5: belated, big detour. Thought #7 was a boulder but reentrant entered mind along with 5 year old concern if it was a fair point. #11: should have walked last 100m from trail - went up rough open & entered a welter of confusion.

Fun to run up the finish reentrant (in front of cheering crowds), never really utilized due to less than optimal finish placement. Nice to have decent (if familiar) O in the backyard. No AP brown splits entered in '07 for comparison.

N.B. John Keats came on the radar last night when Gillmore was here. Keats didn't live to see 26, ravaged by TB. Finished "Memoirs of a Debulked Woman" by Susan Gubar. A web visit showed she is still living. On knells for whom the bell tolls...

BD 2007 Brown (Sun) - Splits

DP, dewey, crystal clear. Circled the Arena marsh, marveled at height of aspen-like trees, noted the fresh moose tracks, perused Nottingcook map for sign location & also relived two O-ringen courses from last summer. Wondered if it was getting mentally tiring picking thru a lot of detail packed into a small area of map - being there makes all the difference.

Parked under 89, went down bike path, under 89 to SPS boat house & back on access road, largely in genteel shade. Had etappe 2 & 3 from O-Ringen for company - reading detail necessitated stopping.

DP to slough, low water in spite of recent rains - beaver-determined, I
guess. Past two morns dark & gloomy with predawn thunder and lightening, up unplugging various at 0330 today.

Leaves turning, squirrels dropping acorns on the skylights.

Noon to Winant Hill, along base & back. Breezy and dry, improved from
recent humidity. 50/50 alternating for 14', need more of it.

Noon, hardtop loop, less of these for summer heat reasons - 18' before shade. W. on Clinton, Iron Works, Rockingham etc.

Beth found some summer clothes in a box misplaced for more than 5 yrs. Wore a once-upon-a-time May 13, 1984 Northfield Mt. BG shirt.

C • Woah an original 10

DP, not much of this, a few with Janelle last week. Impressive erosion on slight slope in road from heavy rains.

Looked over shirts in box: NE Champs @ Mt. Tom '78, US Champs @ Boxford, '78, numerous BG shirts '84, '87, '92, '02, various WP & more. Favorite for time being is Boxford - nothing like an old but healthy t shirt.

BHS track on way home from work, overcast so not too hot. 2 800s (3:33,3:37) as a look-see and some 400s etc.

180 mi, Monday, MSO, nap, dinner with Diane & Liz, movie with Beth conspired for a do-nothing-else day. Passed a 2130hrs runner on South St. with bright headlamp out between heat.

Foggy/dreary, rain at end. Middle, NSR ccw. Wanted a photo for "memorabilia" - this critter came charging, then led, chased a car in middle of road over a blind hilltop, had to get help to make him stop following. Passed 2 separate female runners - proof when it rains, it pours.