Training Log Archive: bl

BHS track again, around 5p. Calm, warm, but clouds for shade. Felt lazy being end of the day. Morning taken up, began with rounds, then house stuff. More map reading, this time Northumberland Country Forest, Ontario - says "Ontario Champs, my first blue course, 6/3-4/1978", so 38 years ago today. Never found #3 on second day though…complex contours, no rock features or walls, not many paths. Lowry way ahead of the competition.

Stopped watch to change maps & lost 1.5 laps before I took a look. Map reading has the advantage of distraction.

@BHS track, mostly walk 100, run 100, did 2 200s, too. Legs felt good for a change (49 & 22, the 22 could have been carried on). One stretch of the track was breezy and shaded. Right knee is about to be part of injury history.

Had Canadian Champs maps from August, 1980, Lac Sir John Lac etc., 1/15 scale, tiny boulders, knolls. Made for good company on the walking parts. Days of Ted de St. Croix, Ron Lowry, Gord Hunter. Lots of applied energy back then but not always as efficiently as desired.

@ CHS track. Went to BHS around 8:05 but kids were using it. Pretty much empty at CHS. 2 miles, walk & jog. Felt stiff & not much energy. Goal was to get something in before going to work.

This time, car puzzle was mine. Pressed the open trunk button & heard an obnoxious static sound coming from the back seat area. Turned out to be coming from the rear seat speakers. There were also a few base speaker-type sounds. Engine & radio were off. No matter what I did, this continued. Walked away from the car for track at CHS & when I returned, the static etc was gone and still is.

After work, parked at Audubon & utilized SPS campus for most part. Saw a young woman come out from behind a small car in the corner of a parking lot with what appeared to be a great dane, on the thin side - but still big. Then I saw two others, also tall but more slender. Turned out all three came from the back of the very small car she was driving. I wished I’d inquired more. It was a sight. All work though, this 4.73 mi.

Low voltage day

Had the echo &, by chance, the cardiologist reading echos for the day was someone I knew from college as well as my time at Concord Hospital '95-7. That opened the door to a good bit of interaction, going over the study & making light of alma maters & fund raising. Anyway, a fairly leaky mitral valve whose solution remains to be seen.

Missed any kind of run - came home from a half day of work, took a nap, then did some outside stuff. This eve, we went off for a ride to Canterbury, in part to see the Shaker Village. Was on call, the cell with under 5% charge but Beth had hers. The Village dates back to the early 19th century, very picturesque and particularly on the fine June eve that it was - rustling green leaves and waving grass in the breeze, birdsong, distant views, fields, gardens, dirt roads disappearing into the forests, a large pond, walls and all the stuff that can make a rural NE state like NH look so fine. Coming back, lights started to go on on Beth’s dash, suggesting a battery issue. She’d just had one 3 days ago, the car dying about 1.5 mi from home. I was coming home then, drove by & returned with a portable battery starter & she was home easily. Battery then fully charged.

This was the first outing since. Canterbury is about 18 mi from home. Tonight, eventually same thing - first various dash lights went on, then finally the car engine stopped in the last mile from home. So it was coast & coast some more down the long hill. I turned onto Allen with little brake or steering power & coasted to a stop 25 yds from our mail box. I had the Sears starter in the trunk for this undiagnosed problem should it reoccur. The battery read 10.4v. The car started started readily with the jump start but upon disconnecting the portable starter, the engine stopped again. So I restarted it & Beth drove into garage with the hood up about 18”, the starter battery sitting on top of things doing the work. So now the shop - but how lucky to get as far as we did w/o any frustration. No way one could have driven the car with the hood as it was. It remained the fine eve it had been.

I try to imagine this place in the cold, isolated winter of something like 1825 (the settlement started around 1816)

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Similar to yesterday - got there late, just after 7p. Silken eve, fitting for the last of May.

At BHS track around 5p - hazy, warm. 100s & 200s around 8' pace, 2 400s same pace. All work but good work. Have an echocardiogram Wed am, a catch up assessment of the ticker which I'm looking forward to.

No jog-walk yesterday - painted the bottom (for the last time?) and finished off the bright work I'd heated & scraped to bare wood. Left me pretty tired. Then went to S. Dartmouth for dinner with Jim & Colleen. It rained so hard this morning that it was hard to have a conversation at times under the cover. A tropical depression moving along the coast. Some sun by the time we got to NH.