Training Log Archive: dlevine

One final excavation - and the driveway is exposed! - plus some brush hauling. (Then a long drive home, not logged.)

Still more ice excavation. One more day and the driveway should be clear. My mom pointed out today that the next four days will be above freezing and that if I do nothing, the driveway will probably be clear by Monday, but I promised to do it, so I'll probably use the morning sun to help me finish tomorrow.

At Notchview Reservation near Windsor, MA. Tremendously variable conditions: as looped away from the warming hut, it was gorgeously tracked for classic and skate, then nice for classic, then rough for classic with the tracks coming and going after thaw/freezes with no retracking, then a complete loss of trail (in a field - thank god I had a contour map telling me where to pick up the woods portion!), then crunching through crust and finally back to the good stuff as I head in. Went pretty hard, but kept getting "thrown off" by permanent O course markers. Asked at the warming hut but the guy didn't know anything more than that they were there.

Tried (one of) the skating loop(s) at Notchview. Being tired, it was actually easier for me to keep my rhythm than in my other outings, but I gave up on some of the hills. Also stopped (but kept the clock going) for a conversation in the middle with a skier who appeared to be (but was not) in distress.

More "ice" excavation in my parents driveway.

Visiting my folks. Cascade Road Loop,

Excavating my parents mailbox.

Two days before the last big storm, the plow clipped their box, sending the top flying. Then, during the storm, the plow crew saw no mailbox so let a snowbank accumulate in front of the box. Now, even though the box has been replaced, the post office claims that they can't get to the box until we shovel it out. Of course the snowbank is more or less a solid block of ice once the top part is off. I'll be back at it tomorrow...

Clearing much heavy snow for a delivery later this week when I won't be here. Now I just have to hope that there is no significant accumulation between now and Wednesday...

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