Training Log Archive: bl

Mountain Lakes in North Salem - ran one of the Brown Xs (3.8k, 180m, 1/75 map) I missed last October. Accurate enough, woods very open, black features so so in places. Didn't like #8. Camping tonight at Hemlock Pond with Z & M & we have the after-dark park apparently to ourselves. Dip in the lake and dinner at the modern Cross River plaza on Rte 35.

220 miles to park entrance off Hawley Rd in surreal northern Westchester.
Crossed NH on Rt 9, most everything in somber grays. Color began around Springfield and again in the Hartford area & back to mostly bare woods along the Waterbury-Danbury stretch.

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Brown X Day 1 - Splits

BHS track on the way home from work. No plan, just warm up and see what
comes or goes. Ended up with 100s & 200s with walking in between. Not interested in logging specifics - too much work! - but 200s got predictably more facile - as in "I'm not actually a wax person". Left a bit soon since Beth and I are gong separate ways tomorrow: me WP, she SLC & CA, back 5/14.

There was a young woman at the track with a starting block, practicing starts (between smart phone consults and changing of spikes). I started a
conversation to learn she was a BHS senior, 100 & 200 runner, best 25.9; guessed 400 around 58 --- nope, had not been under a minute. She went to a NH Invitational a few weeks ago ("too hot"...NH in April?)..."something like a 1000 participants"...NH again?

Not sure where to go & settled on Hammond NP parking which proved ideal.
Except not really covered enough for the chill wind in the open. Across the greening field to Eagle Tr, down nearly to Br. Londonderry Tkpe, left on Webelos Tr to BLT, along it and back on Eagle.

An Eagle scout as part of his project has made very nice trail signs although too many and several are at trail intersections that don't yet exist - the crossing or connecting trail is yet to be. The signs had to be present by his 18th birthday to qualify for his Scout merit efforts.

Bought a new cell phone after not coming up with mine after about 12 days.

Visited Bog Meadow to see if it was still water-filled which it was. Grey, breezy, cool.



Earlier Beth & I drove to the League store in Center Sandwich on the slow (frost heaves) Holderness road. Water, woods, fields and hills as well as old houses pretty much say it all. Holderness Bog

New England Challenge, the 1st meet of this new series, at BB. Good turnout (50-55 for UNO) incl a Norwegian and a Swedish couple. Gray, chilly, no rain. A nice event all around. Good having three of us dividing meet chores. Ernst made courses everyone seemed pleased with & also did the map printing, e-punch synchronizing and organizing, online registration etc, in short, 'master of ceremonies'. BB is an interesting place and often challenging in its varied terrain and tough vegetation.

Picked up advanced points north of the road. Didn't think of fitting in a brown course when things slowed down. Probably for the better.

305 needs attention.

Bear Brook putting out flags with Jim & Ernst. Nice enough day. E & I both made a parallel error, me coming from the north, E from the southwest. I heard the sound of "something" in the leaves just out of view. Soon there was Ernst. I wasn't supposed to even be looking for that streamer but was. I'd absentmindedly crossed into his section with the experience of 2 wks prior at work. Both of us had arrived at the same wrong area for different reasons from different directions. Upon realizing, I skedaddled, heading north still not able to make in-control sense but soon enough came upon a knoll with boulder & then was OK. Did not realize the absurdity of the misread until Ernst explained it at parking - he did have to find the correct place with streamer from our previous visit. The last of the snow was in the parking lot.

Leaving, we visited the park ranger (at home) which seemed a good idea & proved to be.

Patch-Rollins after work. Chilly, raw again, more so than yesterday.
Went CW & took an old wall-lined road thru the woods passed up until today. Straight as can be. Once upon a time, fields to either side.