Training Log Archive: bl

I look at this photo & say "wow, I can run forever here!" Wish I'd been there.

Another pleasant, warm day. Needed a close-by loop which became Dean, Knox, thru forest, back on BBR. Legs tired, couldn't beat 10'/mi. Met 5 hunters, 2 at trail head & three returning to their trucks (latter group more in the Billy Goat gruff MO). I thought hunters hunted dawn & dusk. They're as omnipresent as jellyfish today. Second encounter was around 12:45.

On the DP this am, spotted a hunter standing on a knoll under the PL, in the open (8:56, I noted). Changed course to avoid collision. One problem is that the dogs don't like "smoking sticks" & this has caused problems in past. Do need to get out the orange see-me-now outfits. Also open house at the Bow Meeting house with bells ringing, lots of people - feels like a Sunday.

Nottingcook loop via Allen, South Bow Road, Ordway. Day was warm, began gray with rain, then complete clearing, nearly 70F...how nice! Met Beth at end of Ordway with Z&M. Got lost right after Ordway Cemetery due to logging changes & disappearance of a key old, small trail. A sign said "Ordway Cemetery 1834", which was chained off, seemingly to keep recent changes - anything but quaint - at bay. Wandered east & north thru lots of laurel. Finally spotted an old SVT, recognized it & we were on our way. Met one hunter with rifle (not hunting season yet?) and another fellow with a dog, commenting on how nice it was to be in the woods today.

Ran in brand new New Balance shoes - picked, in part, for color (avoid garish) as well as support & cushioning. Cost too little to confess to - so will call it an experiment. Color is black & so not much to show for some of the stuff we encountered wandering thru thickish, wet stuff in search of a way through.

November 1 pix

Ordway lane "lantern"


Woodbury barn, Nottingcook A meet Saturday start bus drop, 6 years, one month ago


Would you let this dog in your house?

Went to SPS around 2:40 - gray day & light rain began about 2:55. Jogged & walked, thinking now that I can enter the A meet, I need to pick up the pace over the next few weeks. Have a few days off & not going anywhere so that should help.

Sad to see October go - sodden & unceremoniously, tho tonight is Halloween. Entered the DVOA meet first thing when I got home. Felt a bit guilty passing up green but so be it.

Out back to PL & along it. Chilly but ok in sun. No energy to speak of.

Funny day - felt like a Monday...chaotic at work at first. Then Beth & I went to an 11a meeting in town a day early.... 41F inside the house when we got home around 1145p last night. (had neglected to turn the heat pump on in early dawn departure haste a week before). Better was when we realized the wind had blown open a bedroom window-door providing a 30" by 6' "hole" to let cold air in (had gone unnoticed due to dark, screen, large plant, curtain & a freezing BR to begin with). Wasn't ready for sleep so when it was time to get up here, it wasn't enough rest.

Asked George W at the UNO A meet what else was on his sked for the fall. He put DVOA on the radar - where it hadn't been. Looked at the web site yesterday: $40/day late fee, which for 2 of us would be around $160 minus USOF $16; that's just the late fee - which is unpalatable. So, shucks, guess no A meet. Wanted to see French Creek again - recall the '82 USOC there. Have call that week (which would have req'd fixing) & something ok to do Sat but did want an O experience outside my own backyard this fall. The Harriman meet would have been excellent in terrain & distance. The good (Boulderdash), the bad (late registration) & the ugly (A meet cancellation). What's next...local meets it seems.

C • Adult (21 years and older):... 12

C • French Creek 9

To Mt. Vision - it was clear but with usual mist on high. Very clear-windy last night, preserving views of Tomales. More & more mist as I got near the top of Mt. Vision, making it visionless, unfortunately. No people or cars other than Beth who passed me & was waiting in the parking lot. The road continued but was closed. Could not tell where the summit was but sat view reveals it was further ahead than I thought.

The 5 of us walked from the heights of Via de la Vista to the bay beaches - drove back. We had an inquisitive observer on the beach. And Tanis' photoshop accomplishment.

Beth & I walked down & back up Via de la Vista in the morning.

Went out in the pm for a visit & supposed run on the drive to the lighthouse and south shore but it was windy & raw & not inviting. Got back & got bogged down.

Point Reyes shore