Training Log Archive: Ari-o

Super muggy kinda pokey trail run with Jess around the Blue Hills.

I biked over to Sullivan, she picked me up 30s later, right onto 93, 20 minutes to the Blue Hills. Same deal on the way home. Worked perfect.

Did the white and yellow triangles. Greasy in places, stayed off the steep, rocky bits. Very sweaty but nice.

C • Blue hills not fells 2

"I'm going to go for a bike ride this afternoon."

Flash. Flash. Boom. Boom.

I went for a cooler-but-still-humid bike share run instead while the wife made dinner :)

This was a ridiculous run. The conference had a casino night and I didn't really want to go to that (also, dubious ethically as a Federal Employee) so I went back to the hotel. Waited a bit longer than maybe I should have but it did mean running up the access road in the shade. Then found the Killington trail map, took the A-Climb, and went straight up a lift line. 1535 feet over a mile, about the Ammy.

Caught an excellent sunset off the mountain, and could have headed back through the woods and down the road, 8 miles in 1:45 and gone to bed. But, no, I remembered (wrongly) that the AT was runnable down to Route 4. I thought about heading on the old AT to Pico for the connector trail back to Killington but when I saw it was only 3.8 miles to Route 4 I went that way. I regretted my decision for most of this descent was too rocky/muddy/rooty to run in the dark.

Made it to Route 4 by 9, ran up to Pico, found my way onto the Summit Road (which had a bunch of "don't use this road work going on" signs but a) those are for amateurs and b) those are for daytime) and marched up the hill. This was quite nice. A bit cooler, a bit of a breeze, and I crested the top onto the access trail back to Killington.

This was kind of the whole goal of the run I think? Killington built this trail a while ago to connect to Pico, but never got permission to build the crossing trail or lift which would really connect them, so it sort of gets used in the summer and groomed in the winter when they are moving grooming equipment back and forth. It was a nice jog down, and then I decided (kind of dumbly, but whatever) to take the bike trail down from there because the road had a small but steep climb.

No worse for wear I arrived back at the hotel around bedtime. Not bad for a Wednesday!

If only they would start the conference at 9 instead of 8. But I am breakfast-motivated!

I haven't had much a training plan but with a new month in place, a short one. August was a lot of volume (highest since 100m in 2021!) with a backpacking trip and some trail running. September will be more local! Plans:

* With the heavy thing room closed, I'll find some time for bodyweight stuff and double-poling. Yeah I need to rollerski.
* Pisgah! Unless it's still 90 and humid. In which case, No Pisgah!
* 30 hours of volume would be a nice goal.
* The pushup spreadsheet will probably need to come out of hibernation.
* IDK what else. Don't get injured?

After watching the Tuesday morning crew on Alex's log for the last few years I wound up here on a Tuesday morning and we ran up the mountain. Grabbed poles out of my car, warm and humid and warmer as we went up but not too bad. Then down in time to get back for my meetings.

I guess we can't log Boggle but Alex and I played more than 20 games of it and at the end were separated by about 10 points (averaging ~20 points per game and we had a string of real duds).

Real Boggle, too. No words <5 letters.

We are evenly matched with each other and for some odd reason no one else wants to play with us.

Alex suggested this loop CCW and it was lovely. Not too hot in the woods, not too much climbing to overheat. Kept it easy on the muddy/wet/up bits, then had a nice jog the rest of the way out.