Training Log Archive: bl

Noon loop with Diane, bit tight, nothing specific. Clear, 52F, windy.

Event: Blue Hills Traverse
 

37th BHT! Perfect weather, warm but not too, sun only after finishing but rain disappeared entirely. Course by Ross Smith, good use of east part with some longer legs. Course design fitting in a small map case is always desirable. Decent energy though no long runs in past month or so. Pleased that nothing hurt or hurts, no foot pain, no falls. Large group at start, paid little attention to route until we got to hardtop road. Some question as to route to #2, PG obligingly leading Dave Yee & me during this part. PG seemed to hesitate a bit out of #4 letting me ahead & did not see him again til mid-section on way to #6 - I was still ahead when he appeared at 8; I was just ahead again at #9 & then did not see him til finish - not sure of his time but he evidentally was breathing down my neck, as the expression goes. Near 10 & into & out of 11, saw someone I thought was on Traverse but after #11, he went left when one needed to go right, so I assume he was not on same course. Saw no one til #18 which I took to be relatively easy but was tricky. Lost about a minute & let TP & Samantha Saeger get ahead. Ernst spent 5:29 I think on this approx 200m leg. Nice work by "the crew inside the beltway" - Saegers, Ross etc. Epunch a nice touch, we'll have to come around to that my backward state. 1st M60, won Tevas last year which I wore today. This time won some 'tech' socks to wear with the Tevas, I guess next year.

Judy checking who gets which...



The Coach proffering Sustenance to the Weary...

Traverse - Splits

Heavy rain today, another wet fall Saturday. Would have gone to SPS track if not the case by 10am but rained thru night. Day before BHT anyway so a rest is a good idea

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October Gold

The West was getting out of light
As the sun descended into night.

The air was thin and crystalline cold
And marked the end of October gold.

Slow DP got slower. Passed Got Sno but did not see. Into woods, off trail, for something of interest. Old ride barely visible.

SPS after work, into dark. Fabulous, fiery sunset. Went by Bassi's house, saw him in kitchen but not time to visit.

Took Alexey to Trailways bus at 1:30, back to Moscow via Amsterdam tonight. Such a nice, genuine, organized, considerate person with charming, occasionally mis-the-mark English for levity. Learned some about pc's as well as OCAD as I was able to loan him a pc with ocad aboard. Sad to see him go but he was ready to go home. Fieldwork can be lonely. We saw a fair amount of each other but it must have been a fairly uni-dimensional experience. Alexey did not use the internet here & cell was for emergency use. In large part, I believe Beth & I were his only contacts.

SPS XC - 52F - back again. Went overdressed so as to fend off the chill as in descent to the hollow. Slow first so as to warm up & make sure groin worked.

Second - Tee &shorts, as in pleasant air-conditoned room - good energy born from good temp, first split 2:30 vs the 2:36-41 that might have expected
& rest is history, another PR for what it's worth. Would rather do 2
14:40s or so but not enough devotion/time/resilience of MSK system - one of the 3 on any given visit. SPS track before snow falls perhaps.

Dinner w/ Alexey & Beth at Common Man last night.

Near redline PR, 5 effort to clean out cobwebs.

Went to SPS after rounds at NHH/Vets day/holiday. Wanted 2 XC loops under 15' but it was chilly, 48F, did not have enough warm cover so took one slow loop with expectation of one fast - but groin started making itself known, a setup for an injury (or worse than it is) so finished the loop & quit on the idea of a 4 effort which would have been something honest.

Stewardship walk for Bow Open Spaces, Know Road Town Forest, task being to walk the boundaries, ensuring that the are no encroachments - dumping, unauthorized trail making etc. Walked some 22,000' - could have added it up before going out - took more time than I'd considered - slow walk in some places. A boundary would be marked as: N1degW, 2380'. Usual mix of nice & not-so-nice woods, quite a few good contour features. 320 ac, would make a nice O map & closeby home so maybe a future task. Difficulty I found was being near houses where encroachments occur & yet not wishing to be noted. Had the dogs & of course they occ go right into a yard for any # of reasons, incl chasing the owner's dog! It was a nice way to see these woods - have been on the paths but most of the time, I recognized nothing familiar. Even found this Pawtuckaway-sized boulder for the first time.

Noon SloGo with Diane, Luti route. Tee & shorts.. Just nice to be outside.
Left groin some noise, made no demands. Left achilles seems better w/ heel lift.

At 0430:
"Beth, you awake?"
"Yes."
She, always up first, stokes stove, makes coffee, feeds dogs. Me OOB at 0510, raking leaves just after 0600 light, dog DP next & then cleaning mold off side of garage, all before 07. Then a relapse, taking a power(less) nap, before getting up for the "real day's work". Really am programmed to get up with light & not before.

When I get around, pic is not posed, occurred as I wrote above.

At 2000hrs, early to rise, early to bed, but for "Changling", worth another 75' upon rising...