Training Log Archive: bl

Cuttyhunk visit. Took 9.5 hrs to get here! 4.5 driving to the Cape in Monday am traffic like I did not foresee.

From 495 on Rte 3 to Rt128 was stop & go & from where I got on 128 to Rte 2A in Concord, the same. Took 2A/2 to 495 and then south. It turned from sunny to showery. I’d dismissed Cuttyhunk but went to Falmouth Hts. to see if I could find Courtenay. It looked pretty good on Vineyard Sound so I came here in an abiding southerly.



End of season, pretty empty & nice. Got ashore just before 6p and tried to get to west end but found some dead ends and No Trespassing signs. Will try tomorrow. Got to some vantages. C’hunk is a small ship surrounded by what seems to be big ocean though it isn’t. Found a few tracks and ran some hills & admired the moorlands - but no sheep .

Harked back to a November eve before 1984 when Beth & I came hereon Rhodora. I was running laps from the Compass Rose intersection to the island height (maybe 1 mi per RT) and Beth was lying on the rose in the middle of the intersection in the November dark which I never knew until much later. And didn’t trip on her - that would have been an awakening.

C • Cuttyhunk 3

Event: NEOC: Townsend State Forest
 

UNO meeting at Harris Center for A meet. A really nice place, should be an excellent venue with finish in a NH version of an English tea garden. I do admire Hancock - was there a year ago, second visit sinks in more. Had expected to go orienteering as well, either at Townsend or Pawtuckaway. I wasn't going to get to the former by ten and the meeting by noon & it turned out that the best way to Pawtuckaway was right back to Concord/Bow and then another 25 mi east so it didn't happen. And Townsend was not ready to go at 10 am anyway per Darrell's report. Also a NASCAR race day in Loudon so it was probably pretty awful from Concord north, south and maybe a bit east on 101. Arrived home, entertained grandchildren and got back to staining the house.


Something about this as the days chill

Event: Ottawa O-Fest - 2015 Ontario Orienteering Championships
 

BHS track around 5:15p, lengthening shadows, chilly in the shade, track about 20% sun. Had warm up pants on when I got there. The house was 57-60F all day so chill was at work. Settled into 10x 200m, with 100m walk between, around 55" av. Last was 46", 22 & 24", legs turning as fast as they would go on this particular Saturday eve. Thought of the days when reasonable striding was good for a first 27-30" on the way to an 880.

Must have been a football game there this pm - there was enough discard on the field to suggest so.

The below came to mind:

"As shadows lengthen
Resolve must strengthen.
Or be lost
At whatever cost"

To Parsons & back thru woods to Stoney Brook around 4:45 with the 310. Tried hard to get it to be recognized by AP & now it seems I'll finally pursue Ken's expertise, as it's high time to upgrade from the 305. The list of stuff I take forever to get around to.... Added staining c. 35% of the house to the to do list --- to ensure I never get on top of things. Did one hill 5x to add to the mix. Wanted to get home to get some staining done before end of day.

C • The list of stuff 2

Up Allen to WH, into shady, cool Nottingcook. Nearing PL, decided to go "straight N" - took an eternity to get to PL and then from PL to home on shaky DR. Woods ever so thick, much more so than 2006-7, 26' adventure. Best sighting was very fresh moose droppings but no moose. Had Pawtuckaway map in hand which I looked at on the road.

End of day, & too late, feeling cold in the house so jogged over to open Nottingcook PL when the 9.5 wouldn't start, the battery in need of cpr. I found receding warm sunshine, and managed 10x on the hill. As I was completing the last, I heard Beth's greeting - who had come to PL environs with M for their evening walk. We walked back to her car. I was glad enough for a ride home, but first we paused to listen to Writer's Almanac.

3 times around Stoney Brook block with O maps from '79 O-Ringen. Felt productive just staying nearby & did a small chore between laps. Gray day, seemed chilly w/o house heat.