Training Log Archive: bl

Visit to Bear Brook after 5-6" snow yesterday. Around 35F. Not surprisingly, quite a few people out. BB looks particularly thick when boughs are full of snow. Pondered the time when Beth & I skied on Smith Pond & climbed the bank by the lean to - must be 10 years ago.

Y after work. Snow starting early this morning - 100% about face from yesterday's 50F to today's winter wonderland, 25F by late pm. No time for a planned jog, instead bought a new cell phone (finally submitted to iPhone affliction, presumably followed by addiction) after some 9 weeks without any phone.

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Started from Iron Works pkng. No energy to speak of, maybe 3 hrs sleep last night, so jog-walk devolved to just walk. Had an impulse to leave the road & made my way into the Turkey River watershed. Had been there about 5 years ago with Diane. Today, flooded areas, no place to cross and had to retrace. There were many streamers along the river banks but I couldn't figure out why.

Cold, miserable, rainy all day. Sat in the car after work finishing the paper, opted out of the Y and went to BAM to read sailing magazines in which the sun shone and the water beckoned.

In east Concord - came upon a nice city park for parking. Started east on Pembroke Rd. Saw 2 cell towers high on a far hill & thought I'd head that way for some adventure. They soon disappeared but I crossed Sheep Davis to North Pembroke Rd where I’d been before and then by large sand and gravel pits, one I’d run thru the only other time there. Decided I wasn’t going to get to the towers in the 4 miles allotted, entered a gravel pit and headed for the hills there. Gravel pits of that size are unworldly - there was a monster truck and excavator and huge piles of crushed stone. Lots of soft mud at first, then a climb to the high point, then departed thru really crappy woods back to N. Pembroke Rd. Right thigh felt a bit charlie horsed & right leg ever so slightly uncoordinated around mile 4, so did some stop & go.

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Going back on N. Pembroke, a car passed at speed and next thing, a loud crash and some car parts flying, about 100 yds ahead and just coming into view. Fully expected to see a seriously injured person in a flipped car. Two cars had also stopped. Got there, no car anywhere, not in woods and no drop off. One of the drivers said the car had made a left 100 yds ahead. Indeed, there were drips on the road indicating that. I took a jog down it, could see the car and driver parked in a warehouse parking lot. He was out & looking at the damage and not apparently injured. I suspected an impaired driver & did not go any further toward the car. He got back in & drove by me, the right front mangled, car sounds of scraping, the right rear tire near flat & wobbling. A couple that had stopped earlier came by & were about to call the police. The car went L on N. Pembroke, toward the traffic & likely interaction with police. The driver, a man in 30s or 40s, was red-faced - as in intoxicated. Not a dull run.

Not a dull meeting last night either re NH Fish and Game public hearing re a proposed bobcat trapping season. A full house, maybe 300 at the State House, maybe 95% opposed. 11 F&G commissioners, per state law - “each must be an active outdoorsman holding a resident fishing, hunting or trapping license in at least five of the past ten years”. There were very strong comments against. I can’t imagine their approving this. Their funding is at peril with a “yes". One voiced threat was to get opposed landowners (one petition had 10,000 signatures) to post their land “no hunting” for deer, bear and turkey for backlash against F&G. Very interesting to see what comes and also to see the inside of the SH - many old paintings, flags and murals. Small state, sort of large history.

Two Stoney Brook laps. No hamstring complaint. Not sure what the episode of 10 days ago was about - a one time thing so it seems. Need miles with an A meet next month. It was near 50F today - dealt with two burn piles which felt good.

Nottingcook hike with Beth, point to point, 2 cars. We started between the Woodbury places and went to Woodbury Lookout and then down. Beth lost a Yak Trak early & it was slippery but we found another one on the trail (pretty sure it was from the guy who hiked past us & did not come back looking - as we did not go back to look for her's) so that was most helpful. Fair amount of straight thru woods. Saw more opportunity for classic, waxless skis than I would have guessed, both in woods & on trails. Warm day.

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