Training Log Archive: bl

Dix Island, set out with 2 mi in mind. Great sunset and best night sky all summer. Slept poorly as did Beth. Anchor chain was scraping on rock and it sounded like thunder tho the night was as far from that as possible.


Dix sundown, Milky Way to follow

Bear Brook training. Mild day. First 7 fm 2011 blue. Thick woods for most part.

From Sag To Longbeach Lane & got hot enough to want to take a swim in Noyac Bay which I did. Had expected a second short run later in the day but sifting thru the past as well as socializing made it about impossible.

Drove to New London, took the Cross Sound ferry to Orient Point, then drove to Greenport to take North and South Ferries to and from Shelter Island to Sag Harbor. Met Vicky at Longbeach La. & sifted thru 35 years of father & stepmother’s past, an overwhelming, impossible chore. Vowed to clean up as we go along vs stuffing attics and basements and closets with the stuff of put-off decisions. Brought some home. Night and dinner in East Hampton with Gregg & Vicky. Visiting Jackson Pollock's studio was a high point. Dogs along & tired were they of car confinement.

Nottingcook Bog Meadow loop. Went to BHS to use the track but sports were
taking place in infield. Same at the elementary school track. So back to square one. Had not been there in perhaps a month. Seems like hunting season of some kind: two pickups, one was Got Snow.

Some colors and usual fall freshness. Junk in the usual places, too, incl. a porcelain toilet shot up into bite size pieces.

Had 3 maps: 2 were of Silvermine from a Silvermine Sweepstakes 9/14/80 & a training visit 11/20/82. What a forest - Harriman return coming up but nothing like the early days if only because years have passed with the inevitable change.

Hopkinton loop, breezy NW day, perfect conditions, colors beginning.
Reasonable energy. Did not encounter a car til 2.1 miles and only one on first 3.9 miles which was all dirt road. Slowest I've run this per location search but second half was better. Not enough long runs these days and it seems like never enough time to get stuff done.

Bear Brook brown course from 2011. Muggy/gloomy around 4pm when I started. Saw 3 MTBers & then had the place to myself. Could have had a better copy of the map - symbols not really clear enough but did not consider that at home. Claustrophobic canopy after wide openness of the western prairie. But some really nice open woods in the 6-11 cp section.

Stopped by to ponder the Leavitts - still as still as ever, the small plot (from 2013) maintained by someone.

There was a NEOC meet at Boojum Rock but no inclination to travel.

Getting to start triangle.

Bear Brook Brown (Sun) - Splits