Training Log Archive: bl

Basically a DP & hot in sun at 11a. No particularly significant aches or pains.

Did the 305 route from yesterday for practice - takes a lot of time. Drawing with a red pen probably makes more sense. One still has a lot of adjusting to do, eg, path bends etc.

A bear visited last night around 11:30. This was the first time in years the dogs made a ruckus. The bear gently tipped the feeder's contents into its mouth, not knocking it down. Needless to say, feeder comes in at dark for a while.

Evening walk with Beth & usual suspects. Went to the trail head on Parson's & wound our way on familiar paths to Stoney Brook & home. Nice beaver pond to walk beside as we were finishing up woods section.

Route

Event: 36th Annual Billygoat Run
 

36th BG at Baldwin Hill, course by JJ. As fine as a May day can be but also on the warm side - actually 80F on the car on the way home around 3:30. Singlet & shorts worked for me. I’d call this a very good run, A - (maybe needed more hustle). Decent energy & no cramps. Only cramps (thigh) were some driving home but managed to “defeat” them. Skipped the first point, so from then on it was just about orienteering. Lost maybe 30” on my first, #2, when I followed runners down into a depression (did not see the path) but they were on their way to #1. Other than that, I don’t believe I lost any time. Flags were always where I expected them to be tho I wasn’t always completely sure they’d come out of hiding. JJ had warned they’d be low to the ground - no give-a-ways. To #3, saw Wyatt Riley who passed and one other who also got ahead out of sight & then no one & was a bit shaky on map contact but target was a large reentrant.

4, 5, 6, 7, 8 pretty much alone. Ted Good passed on way to #9. Felt quite good at the refreshment point. #10 to #11 to #12 were the tiring &/or hard points. Ahead of Ted to 11. Pretty much alone to #12. Saw Steve Olafsen leaving, looking for 11. 13-17 alone, an occasional flash of color ahead or to the side. 15 to 16 was another keep-in-contact-or-else leg. #18: read the second half of the leg very carefully...up into green, turn right, go some & there it was by the marsh. Alone to 19, saw Lynette Walker, on the Pygmy, at the approach. #21 was the last point to speak of & uphill. Hit it right on w/ due care. Jeff Saeger & Steve O passed 3/4ths of the way to 22. I pretty much followed or kept them in sight & then it was over. And I wasn’t “dead” which was a pleasing revelation. By skipping the first, I got ahead & did not see as much of the “crowd” as in other Goats. for better or worse. At least, it made me get into the map.

Teamed with Ernst there & back.

C • A very nice run, old man… ... 4

Billygoat - Splits

More walking than I'd bargained for. BOS trail maintenance day & my contribution by default was leaf blowing Robinson Crest Tr.

Fresh yellow, fresh green


Bridge work

In the eve, Beth & I & dogs walked to top of Great Hill for views & breeze-in-the-trees kind of thing. Met a young mom & her daughter living in Mike Sambo's place & talked for close to 20'.

To the slough with Z&M. Finally saw the many deep ruts Beth was referring to. Need a sign posted: "Use of this road during mud season (thru June 1) is prohibited & subject to $500 fine." Being blunt might accomplish the desired result.

Basically doing nothing until Sunday.

Mid-pm struggle after work. Seemed hot, esp on bike trail. Down to SPS boathouse on path, back on road. Not a good time of day for a run but
expedience demanded it be that way.

Total goal was 4 mi & did rest on SPS XC. Appreciably cooler in shade but still no energy to speak of. Need to resume an interest in this particular loop.

Last 5 flags. Chilly, fine morning. Thought I could get dogs out the door w/o breakfast first but M made a beeline for the back so I went back to house, got bowls & food fed them in drive. They had good energy this morning.

Mirror run of yesterday - parked in different place on District 5 Road & went CW. Lovely weather. Pretty similar 305 data.

Came home to answer a call from a HS classmate not spoken with since 1964.

5th District Road area for a change. W. Parish & Lakeview Dr. Bright, breezy, forest floor greening, forsythia splashes of yellow. Thought this was going to be 6mi but not a good g-maps measurement, so was surprised when it was over about 0.9 mi sooner than expected. Had a hard trip on a root - some minor scrapes - could have done more by falling a foot more to the left.

Saw this today,

and the thought:

Onward Christian soldiers
Marching as to war.
And soon comes December
And the Day you won’t remember.