Training Log Archive: bl

Event: CSU Urban Adventure Run
 

Bower loop with Z&M, Z getting too muddy for coming inside last few times.
And then acts like "what have I done?" when summoned for a hosin'.

1 mile before, between, after.

BHS 3 times one mile was goal. Raining, about 60F. 9:04, 7:48, 7:47, the second two hard for me, 2nd esp because a cotton T was too hot. Long way to go for lo 7s.

Event: Boston Park Series: Cat Rock Park
 

Hopkinton Village Greenway after work. A perfect antidote to lack of enthusiasm. Mostly new - noted a few blazes yesterday & looked up the area trails. Covered two short stretches from yesterday. More green resplendency.

Along the way




Could not muster enthusiasm for a drive to Weston...out of the pan into the fire at rush hour.

Patch-Rolins loop. A resplendent, transcendent day. And May is half over tomorrow!

One of numerous memorable photos from a hard drive recently resurrected after 3 years:

taken at the February, 2008, TOC O meet

DP evolved to picking up the water stop from May 4 meet. Spring green is filling in. Cool, gray.

Basically a DP & hot in sun at 11a. No particularly significant aches or pains.

Did the 305 route from yesterday for practice - takes a lot of time. Drawing with a red pen probably makes more sense. One still has a lot of adjusting to do, eg, path bends etc.

A bear visited last night around 11:30. This was the first time in years the dogs made a ruckus. The bear gently tipped the feeder's contents into its mouth, not knocking it down. Needless to say, feeder comes in at dark for a while.

Evening walk with Beth & usual suspects. Went to the trail head on Parson's & wound our way on familiar paths to Stoney Brook & home. Nice beaver pond to walk beside as we were finishing up woods section.

Route

Event: 36th Annual Billygoat Run
 

36th BG at Baldwin Hill, course by JJ. As fine as a May day can be but also on the warm side - actually 80F on the car on the way home around 3:30. Singlet & shorts worked for me. I’d call this a very good run, A - (maybe needed more hustle). Decent energy & no cramps. Only cramps (thigh) were some driving home but managed to “defeat” them. Skipped the first point, so from then on it was just about orienteering. Lost maybe 30” on my first, #2, when I followed runners down into a depression (did not see the path) but they were on their way to #1. Other than that, I don’t believe I lost any time. Flags were always where I expected them to be tho I wasn’t always completely sure they’d come out of hiding. JJ had warned they’d be low to the ground - no give-a-ways. To #3, saw Wyatt Riley who passed and one other who also got ahead out of sight & then no one & was a bit shaky on map contact but target was a large reentrant.

4, 5, 6, 7, 8 pretty much alone. Ted Good passed on way to #9. Felt quite good at the refreshment point. #10 to #11 to #12 were the tiring &/or hard points. Ahead of Ted to 11. Pretty much alone to #12. Saw Steve Olafsen leaving, looking for 11. 13-17 alone, an occasional flash of color ahead or to the side. 15 to 16 was another keep-in-contact-or-else leg. #18: read the second half of the leg very carefully...up into green, turn right, go some & there it was by the marsh. Alone to 19, saw Lynette Walker, on the Pygmy, at the approach. #21 was the last point to speak of & uphill. Hit it right on w/ due care. Jeff Saeger & Steve O passed 3/4ths of the way to 22. I pretty much followed or kept them in sight & then it was over. And I wasn’t “dead” which was a pleasing revelation. By skipping the first, I got ahead & did not see as much of the “crowd” as in other Goats. for better or worse. At least, it made me get into the map.

Teamed with Ernst there & back.

C • A very nice run, old man… ... 4

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