Training Log Archive: bl

Out the back on a warm, showery day. Managed 1.7mi woods wandering, crossing two trails until I had to get home by 5pm. Could predict what came next maybe 3/4ths of the time. At one point, well into the woods, a voice spoke out in greeting. It was a hunter less than 15' away. I might have passed right by w/o noticing his presence. Can’t say he startled me but it was eerie. He’d been sitting there for two hours, deer hunting. I told him I was walking thru a ghost forest which it was at times.

Came home, realized it was the night of the full moon. The sky appeared completely clear but as we got near the top of Great Hill, the eastern sky was largely cloud-filled. Maybe 15’ after moon rise, some cloud edges lit up and shortly the moon peeked thru a gap. We were on the lower spur in the shelter of trees. It was too windy on Great Hill, all of 860'. We’re thinking about trying to watch the full moon rise from Gt. Hill every month thru spring.

Took a look at BHS track but it was well-occupied by foot-ballers. Then drove to view Touree, looking quite November.

Last eve of October with a near full moon over the giddiap grass, a lovely sight I've seen before. Departing, a black pickup was entering. It's dark windows were up. I took Mocha home, got my camera and returned, suspecting creeps that were sneaking in to dump illegally. When I found the truck, it was just two kids and their dog walking the dunes, a pleasing surprise.

Last of October gold

C • Grass 2

Drove to S. Berwick with Mocha to see where Rhodora was. I wasn't quite sure where but my expectation was that she was inside a shed as tonight’s storm (according to marine forecast) hits.

Leaving, I wanted to look at Rye harbor (that I've rarely gotten along with over the past 15 yrs) before this impending storm but the optimal route home was heading west, away from the depressing sea views I've seen too much of, thru Dover (of Dover Raid memory) and Rte 4/202. Now life simplifies.

I’m continually impressed how O-maps, who left orienteering for some 10 years, has returned with “lost time” energy...popping up here, there and everywhere with good results, as I've seen on AP over the last few years. Steve first introduced me to orienteering at Bear Brook in 1975. We were earnest competitors over many years. In those days, I hoped the blue course would be 10k plus. I'd have a better chance as a better runner vs better navigator. At the Quabbin BG, I beat him but only in the finish chute.

Intensely pursue a cause and one should be rewarded, in one way or another. AP can motivate. It comes under something like 'comparative psychology'.