Discussion: the block

That's not your block, but it's a block. Your block would mean Gunn Mountain Rd. But you didn't say it was your block, you said "the block", so this is just an observation, not a correction. But the more challenging block is the one on the other side of the street. Can you get across the river on the RR bridge, or do you have to go all the way to Rte. 5?

Yes, the RR bridge is now a fine section of rail trail, so the "block" that way is about 19 miles. I've bike that way a lot but never run. Never run it using the RR bridge that is. I did run it a few times before the RR bridge was open to pedestrians, had to go out to route 5 for a couple hundred yards, a little over 20 miles....

Coincidence of the day -- the title for your comment.

Perhaps an hour ago, when I was posting my run, I wanted to look up what I had done last time I ran the route, a month or two ago. So I used something I often use, though I'm guessing not so many folks do use it, namely, the search box on my training log page. Not the one in the upper right of all AP pages, that just searches the web, but the one a little ways down in the rightmost column of my log, which searches just my log.

The question always is, what to search for. I thought I had used the term "around the bloc" for the route. So I typed in "block".

Up popped 15 results, the second of which was a time I ran that route last spring. Good enough.

As I scanned down though the rest of the 15, one caught my eye, October 31, 2011. Best orienteering I did all year. Midnight at a parking place at Bradley, on the way back from St. Louis with Ali and Alex, big snowstorm, snow and ice everywhere, power out. Car parking place jammed with people trying to get their cars back, some waiting there at least a couple of hours. And Gail and I were booked on a plane out of JFK the next evening heading for the Istanbul 5-day.

So I clicked on the title bar for the story, which now displayed it as a single day of my log, with comments, and then clicked on "later" to get the next day, and then later, and later, and a bunch more times later, for about three months worth of my log.

Istanbul, and then making the Earl's Trails map (with your OCADing it), then the concept of the Western Mass 5 Day, and on and on. Laughing many times. Not at all a wasted hour.... :-)

I use my log search a lot, as AP acts as my journal and there are times there’s something I need to find. A fine feature.

I could certainly imagine a curated collection of PG-posts making a fine book.

I also use the log search.

I didn’t even know there was a log search until Cristina recently pointed it out to me, right under my nose all this time. I have since used it often to find stuff in my own log, usually similarly to the case you mention in this entry (looking up a past experience at a current location).

But there there are things I still just don’t grok about how search on AttackPoint works. For example, if I look up “eagle omen” using the PG log search, it returns nothing. But if I look for “eagle omen” using the general AttackPoint search, it gets the expected results (which unfailingly make me smile). I would have expected the opposite.