Training Log Archive: bl

Event: UNO Mendum's Pond
 

Weights & rowing at Y - made it more or less a three effort with everything.
Very rainy.

Saint Paul's School map c. 2001. More campus & considerable woods. Opportunity awaits?

The plight of the blight came to mind when I saw this photo & read the caption. Symbolizes well enough.

C • St Paul's map 4

Parked at Audubon, took trail to Turkey Pond, back along bike path. Decent energy, overcast with good temp, rain on the way.

A bird in the hand

Sensed a quiet but swift passage nearby in the garage yesterday - then a fluttering of wings upstairs. Found this fellow inconveniently situated between window glass & plastic storage boxes. Probably wouldn't have bothered with the photo except that I was his namesake as a youngster. The bird didn't care one bit for me.

C • I assume you have this map.... 2

Bike path & SPS wander, fine day.

Bright, breezy. Jog to Bog for a restart re running. Dogs encountered a large porcupine & left it completely alone - how pleasing is that! One could fix the beaver dam & make a 5 acre bog (come alive) again - 3 hours of work, raise damaged part 18-22" over c. 8' & voila, renewed water surface, not dried mud. Add to the list of things I wish I'd get done.

Stopped at the Town Pond this morning looking for the geese. None seen. Got absorbed reading an obituary in my class notes, a '68 year book photo, a young face grown old, now dead. Finally I looked up to see the family having appeared out of nowhere.

Yesterday's episode in delusional thinking.

GPS route explained a few things - that make sense now. Little wonder I never saw the end of the pond. Turn around was because the path needed to take me up the hill - L hand path no longer existed. That's a lot of line o course to miss, especially when approached with equanimity & "let's nail this" part....

Event: UNO Well School
 

Event: NEOC: Breakheart Navigation Race
 

Breakheart Junior Fund raiser Score O: hot, hot day as expected. T showers much later. Was accurate - went to all the points w/o error to speak of. Only water stop I noted was my second to last flag - didn't stop there, was nearly done. So no water which was a first for nearly two hours in the heat. No water, no cramps until driving home.Then they hit with a vengeance - 20' stop at a Mobil for stretching & OJ. Then worse (manual shift prob exacerbated), culminating in the last few miles - wanted/needed to stop but no shade & no AC in car. Spent 2 hours on the bed with a fan & fluids - most times I moved my legs, a thigh cramp (right or left, anterior, posterior, medial lead to wincing & pleading... 'when this stops, I won't move for a very long time'. Finally, mostly abatement, sat up, got up walked & ok. Never so beset with cramps.

Only problem & it was a big one was the 17:57 split between 2 flags - the one before the line O & my first found line O point. I have one 7:48 & then nothing above 6' for the other 25 points. I came to start of line O. Knew I needed to really be sure where I was. Two small trails, a knoll to right with spur but it wasn't convincing - looked green & map showed white & knoll was pretty diffuse. Ran this way & that way & back to road. Even managed to get turned around. Then basic desperation...'OK, get to NW end of major pond' (just 100m in). No pond to be found...hmm. So, ok, get to road you know is north of you. Eventually did that & then same paths & on. Was not trusting with some paths missing on map or d/c'd. Did not get first 2 flags (did not know what I might have missed). My first flag was the high point halfway thru the line O, then got 3 more. Shame, shame... 305 trace shows the foolishness.

Fun perversion considering the heat. Many nice moments in the woods. Was brain dead enough not to note contours-only section - just thinking white woods & navigated just fine. Only when I got home & recovered & studied map, did I see the somewhat subtle nakedness of the contours-only section.

C • I had to stop for 30 minute... 6

Breakheart Score O - Splits