Training Log Archive: bl

Beaver Brook, UNO annual club meeting. Pleasant, sunny, warm start to December. Did brown, considered green - seeing the green course later made me wish I had. The section NE of the barn is rather gently rolling & very much different from the woods on the opposite side of the wet areas separating the map. Brown, green & red shared most of the same points on the far side.

Lost some 3' total. To #2, not 200m, I looked up/ahead early and noted the knoll I believed I needed to navigate to...which I did. Along the way, I saw a flag on a rock feature about the same time I was crossing an intermittent stream...what the map indicated was my point. I told myself that stream was a "newbie", and there would be the intended one, as mapped, on the far side of the knoll and right beside it, the rock face & my flag. Didn't happen. No stream or potential for one, a sinking feeling. I'd run by the flag, crossed the intermittent stream which I'd dismissed. The problem was my deciding I had it right ('unmistakable knoll') pretty early on in the leg. About 1.5' lost.

#4, maybe 150m, was a small rock face in green and called for utmost map contact, pace & attention. Maybe 1.75' lost. #9 was in the same path network that confused me last December 3 (on a very nearby feature). I came on a different path & it was straight forward except for my thinking the flag was on top of the big knoll but it was at east foot and pretty far from the top - so some bewilderment in the making but rather quickly snuffed out

Meeting afterward discussing, among numerous things, the schedule for next year. Offered, along with Steve Tarry, for a Bear Brook meet around 4/20 if there are no DRED hurdles to snuff it out.

Beaver Brook

Brown - Splits

Bear Brook after work. It was 3:40 by the time I started. Beth met me & came along which led to an additional 30' while I waited for her on Regional Dr. Didn't have my compass (having had it in my hand in the house this am) & so my "ambition" was immensely watered down - and it was pretty dilute in the first place. I was not interested in wandering far from a trail. It was completely overcast & the woods & topography looked much the same. I ended up going to find Beth on her out & back trail & walked back with her, just enjoying being outside in the woods. We both had headlamps but were done about 20' before dark.

Prior took a pair of nordic skis to hopefully sell at the Concord Capitol ski club sale tomorrow.

A year ago today

Treadmill

@ BHS on the soccer field. There were faded tracks from skating but mostly soft, wet snow from partly bare ground to 3" on the shade side. Gray but pleasant above Turee after a lot of rain, some snow.

Saw two HS girls running, both in T shirts, no mits or hats, one in shorts @35F around 3:30.

Treadmill, stationary bike, recumbent. The treadmill unit was brand new, with a large computer screen offering all kinds of pertinent and not so pertinent stuff, incl weather app, Netflix, Hulu etc. - actually too much to really begin to recall.

Notably crappy weather: gray and dreary as can be, raining steadily.

Event: WCOC Sessions Woods
 

Had classic ski in mind but delayed and ran out of time before a matinee. Watched Free Solo in town, the story of Alex Honnold's free ascent of El Cap, an excellent Nat'l Geographic cliff hanger to say the least.

C • cliff hanger 3