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Monday Aug 29, 2011 #
8 AM
track 32:23 4.08 mi (7:56 / mi) +131ft 7:42 / mi
ahr:142 max:166 shoes: pegasus #2
In Litchfield. Very happy to see the power still on when I got there about 7 pm with the storm over except for a bit of steady but not strong wind. Several detours for road closing on the way, but two didn't affect me, one cost me only 5 minutes, and the other I just ignored (turned out to be a tree resting on the wires about 15' above the road, but cars were coming the other way, so why not).
My pleasure soon ended, as the power went out about 30 minutes later. Out came the candles and flashlights. Somewhat of a nuisance (though I'm not the one dealing with it), because mom gets up every hour or two during the night for a bathroom trip and needs assistance. So for me it was an early bedtime, 9 pm.
Up at daylight, still no power, electric company had no idea how long. Took a short tour around town, all the power seemed out. Back to mom's. WTF, might as well go run. And I'd been thinking after yesterday that I needed to rev up my legs (or as Tiger would say, I was in need of some reps), so off to the Litchfield high school track, a very pleasant spot on a very pleasant morning, and quite deserted.
Jogged over, 8x200 (200 jog) seemed plenty ambitious enough, and I managed that without disgracing myself -- no falls! -- and then jogged back to mom's. Feeling quite pleased with myself.
And then after a while, having determined that there was really nothing I could do there of much use, I split. Stopped at Charlie's on the way back to see how he and his ailments were doing, but no one there. So then I stopped at George's to see how his ailments were doing, but no one there either. Maybe that will teach me to call in advance. So then stopped at a golf course in Agawam and almost no one there. But in this case that was a good thing as they were open (a little wet but not bad), so I played a quick round, 9 holes quite atrocious, 9 holes quite good, that's about my usual mix, just it usually alternates hole by hole rather than 9 by 9. And then headed home.
Where, if I can get my act together, I will start up OCAD and start learning how to use it, and see if I can get a basemap of Earl's trails from Eddie with some newly discovered lidar, and maybe sometime make a new map. Maybe....
And also, now that I've had a little guidance from Alex -- who now has a room in our house for her occasional use -- about how the modern world works, maybe even revisit my Facebook page for the first time since I established a presence there a couple of years ago, and see if FB is a useful/amusing/entertaining spot for someone about 50 years older than the average FB user.
So much to do....
My pleasure soon ended, as the power went out about 30 minutes later. Out came the candles and flashlights. Somewhat of a nuisance (though I'm not the one dealing with it), because mom gets up every hour or two during the night for a bathroom trip and needs assistance. So for me it was an early bedtime, 9 pm.
Up at daylight, still no power, electric company had no idea how long. Took a short tour around town, all the power seemed out. Back to mom's. WTF, might as well go run. And I'd been thinking after yesterday that I needed to rev up my legs (or as Tiger would say, I was in need of some reps), so off to the Litchfield high school track, a very pleasant spot on a very pleasant morning, and quite deserted.
Jogged over, 8x200 (200 jog) seemed plenty ambitious enough, and I managed that without disgracing myself -- no falls! -- and then jogged back to mom's. Feeling quite pleased with myself.
And then after a while, having determined that there was really nothing I could do there of much use, I split. Stopped at Charlie's on the way back to see how he and his ailments were doing, but no one there. So then I stopped at George's to see how his ailments were doing, but no one there either. Maybe that will teach me to call in advance. So then stopped at a golf course in Agawam and almost no one there. But in this case that was a good thing as they were open (a little wet but not bad), so I played a quick round, 9 holes quite atrocious, 9 holes quite good, that's about my usual mix, just it usually alternates hole by hole rather than 9 by 9. And then headed home.
Where, if I can get my act together, I will start up OCAD and start learning how to use it, and see if I can get a basemap of Earl's trails from Eddie with some newly discovered lidar, and maybe sometime make a new map. Maybe....
And also, now that I've had a little guidance from Alex -- who now has a room in our house for her occasional use -- about how the modern world works, maybe even revisit my Facebook page for the first time since I established a presence there a couple of years ago, and see if FB is a useful/amusing/entertaining spot for someone about 50 years older than the average FB user.
So much to do....
C • Facebook 10
6 PM
biking 19:13 5.13 mi (3:45 / mi) +318ft 3:32 / mi
ahr:119 max:143
Up along the river for a couple of miles to check the flooding. The road was underwater for maybe 150 yards. A couple of bikers looking at it on the far side. A guy in the process of taking off his bike shoes on the near side, getting ready to walk across? And a guy out in the middle, about knee-deep, walking (not carrying) his bike across.
And the Connecticut was quite impressive, moving right along, all sorts of debris from Vermont (pieces of road, top soil,...), plus I thought I spotted a bit of Ken's driveway going by. Vermont seems like it really got screwed, lots of roads gone and they take a lot longer to fix than downed wires.
And the Connecticut was quite impressive, moving right along, all sorts of debris from Vermont (pieces of road, top soil,...), plus I thought I spotted a bit of Ken's driveway going by. Vermont seems like it really got screwed, lots of roads gone and they take a lot longer to fix than downed wires.