Training Log Archive: bl

SPS campus, tired, no expectations. Warm/pleasant.

Missed running on the NAOC maps - wonder how well I might have kept things together.

C • We missed you too. I'm sure... 2

Tony Mangan finished his world run at the Dublin marathon this past Monday - the same place he started 4 years ago. It was 50,000 k to the meter, some 1200 marathons. The last part was a lap around Ireland. He passed over Pakistan for safety reasons. His two favorite countries were the US and Iran.
Four years of archives provide a roadside view and account of an amazing feat. He was the third person to complete such a run but the longest by 13,000 k - a most comprehensive route seeing we're not yet running on water. There is a a fellow who rode and rowed around the world.

Dublin marathon

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Bear Brook, start 3:20 - bit gray, gloomy initially but sun came out. Watch off for some 40' I think! Always good training with the technical detail. Finished more or less under cliffs on Bear Hill --- which are very impressive.

BHS track around 5pm. Mostly 200 on, walk 100, sucked wind a bit on the last few and last 3 were 49, 49, 48. Spent 4+ hours in the car driving back from White Plains so this was more an unwinding. Stopped at Turee after to admire late pm reflections.

From Crowne Plaza along Bloomingdale Rd. into golf course areas. Cool, gray. Tired from past few days.



Felt above was appropriate - on the board in the music room at HHS.

50th reunion is quite an experience, past and present mixing very well. A group of us met at the old HHS building this morning, a building unchanged on the outside in the past 50 years & largely the same inside but modernized. The auditorium was just as remembered, the gyms modernized and the pool looking good after 50 plus years...and this building for the use of the middle school which may be just 7th and 8th grades - certainly a lot of space with excellent facilities for mind & body.

Yesterday (1964) and today - same classmate 50 yrs later on marble promontory on right

Event: NAOC2014 (North American Champs/Ottawa O-Fest)
 

Drive to White Plains with a stop at Pound Ridge. Had a course on a 1/15 map last used June 21, 1983 (!) with notes of 90F, hot/thirsty, summer T storms and fun time anyway. WPW is to-die-for terrain, easily 150-200m visibility, virtually no understory, stone walls to add gentility. Hurried away from the car, had given it an hour, and did not take camera which was too bad.

And then a 25 mi drive to WP. Drove right by Mountain Lakes on Rt 121 - and back in two weeks. And then, pretty soon thereafter, going nowhere for a suitable length of time.

Rollins-Patch, cw. NW breezy/cool. Nice fall pm.

Audubon-SPS wander, mild pm. Days of L achilles awareness, likely brought on by the weekend's sprinting - and maybe the other events, too - achy but no current problem with running. Had gotten careless about using heel inserts since all had been fine. Now care with using a good insert, and ice & ibuprofen after each run.

Turkey and Little Turkey paths are the epitome of rocky-rooty.