Training Log Archive: bl

AM DP at BHS after NHH rounding. Had to use that snow left over from yesterday! Flat baseball field, most of it covered with a flat (very slightly ripply), slithery surface. One push with poles probably gets one to 10-12'/mi rate of motion. Best surface was minimal old soft crust over ice - moderate variation depending on sun's hitting or not. Did some back & forths, then some ovals, one 18" wide bridge between bare grass on the north side of the field. Ended when the beeper went off with cell in car. But it was time to go anyway. As Robert Frost noted "I have miles to go before I sleep".

Purgatory loop again, week later. Better than a week ago (tired from the Friday) & high time to wake up from winter's sleep. Puzzling cop-out on the climb again - this time around 7.7 mi. Hard to know whether I prefer CW or CCW, different way each time & I prefer the different way each time. Lost a head band & one glove (which I liked) - noted at 3.8 mi. Finished, drove to something like 4.5 mi point, expecting to see these items somewhere along the way - right in the middle of the road perhaps. No such luck (couldn't always recall which side of road) and then spotted head band on "opposite" side. So drove another 4 mi RT hoping to spot the glove as well but no luck! I'm of the belief (ostrich?) that if I just keep looking, I'll find what I'm looking for (even if looking in the same place numerous times:). Have played that out with the wallet numerous times over the years - tho' last October, I lost.

C • Nice run 4

Quiet Sunday PM led to a visit to Robert Frost's farm (in residence 1900-11) in Derry. Had seen his wooden writing cabin in Ripton, Vt as well as visited his grave in Bennington. Took this short field trip with the dogs. I'd been aware of this residence - closer to home than I thought & a nice opportunity to read poems in a sunny field.

Frost farm in early spring



A Patch of Old Snow (RF)

There's a patch of old snow in a corner
That I should have guessed
Was a blow-away paper the rain
Had brought to rest.

It is speckled with grime as if
Small print overspread it.
The news of the day I've forgotten --
If I ever read it.

(a day or two ago, it might have been there)