Training Log Archive: CleverSky

From the west end of the Minuteman bike path in Bedford to East Campus at MIT, mostly on bike paths and bike lanes. After almost 39 years, my recumbent returned to the place where it was created.

And back to the car by almost the same route, after the neoSteerRoast consisting of a hearty lunch and socializing with old friends. Everything worked out just about precisely as planned.

A mixture of walking and running with Nancy, which was more than I had been anticipating in all dimensions.

Across the street. I picked a loop up across the town line, haven't been up there in quite a while, and there are a few new trails that warrant exploration. My watch offered a suggested workout, and I said okay. What that seems to have meant was that it buzzed every so often and I think was telling me whether I was going at the recommended speed, but I don't know if it was approving of my pace or not. And then it said I was done, but of course I was still out in the woods so I had to keep going. Interesting to try, I guess, but not really entertaining enough for me to want to keep doing it.

Across the street. I worked out a reasonable route in my head, then decided to do it backwards. Somebody has been doing a nice job of rerouting some trails to avoid wet spots.

A token walk, In The Dark. But we totally dominated at trivia tonight: 106 points, and 2nd place was a tie at 92. The Lundbergs were a key addition to the team (I first met Eric in 1973).

Around the block, In The Dark. Tired today.

Walk to the start. Yesterday's was worth logging, too, but I didn't start my watch yesterday.

Black Rock Forest, Red M35, 7.7 km, 320 m, 9th. I finished this thinking I was going to be way up the track, but it wasn't so bad. Tough course. I had a goos split on #1, after taking the trails instead of shortcutting through the whiet woods, but then going straight up a (mapped) small break in the big cliff (still required some rock climbing), and popped out right at the control. OK through #4, but then #5 was a long leg with no appealing options. There was a twisty route through the middle that was largely on small trails, but I didn't see that, and opted for an around route to the right. That probably would have been fine, but I must have missed a trail junction, and forged ahead eventhough things didn't really make sense. Then I thought they did, but they didn't really, until I realized I was at a big road junction on the edge of the map. Navigate from where you are, so I went clockwise around a lake and attacked the control from behind, which made it really easy, but my route was a giant S that wasted a lot of distance and almost seven minutes.

OK, back on track. Julia Doubson and another woman were ahead of me and they went to the left of Arthur's Pond on the way to #7; I went right and cut the corner and gained about 2.5 minutes and never saw them again. At #7 I encountered another woman (maybe Marie Pangracova?) who was moving really strongly -- as fast as me in the woods and much faster on trails. We were together through #10. Slight error leaving #10, headed too much south and hit the marsh, but when we got on the trail the woman took off, and Wyatt passed me in there and those two left me in the dust.

Drifted a bit right leaving #11, and Andis Vitolins caught me at #12, and I kept him in sight until the finish (pretty good for me!). Andis made a small error on #13, and Daniel Schaublin appeared -- I hadn't seen him since #4. I had a small moment of triumph on the crazy diagonal downhill leg to #16. Andis was going straight, and I contoured a little higher, then when I was directly above the boulder (easy to ID since we had seen people leaving it), I turned and careened straight down the hill. Not only did I beat Andis's split, but I got a rare fastest split (and didn't crash and die).

It appears that I got 2nd place for combined time on M35 for the weekend, but I don't know howmuch I missed by nor how I did compared to the other old guys on Red (and I'm too lazy to add the numbers together myself). (OK, I checked, Sergei Fedorov got me by a ton in M35.)

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