Training Log Archive: bl

I looked for the Sardinia map (USOC 1981, 37 years!) as a challenge to memory and what passes for “organization” - maps alphabetically by state but 'blended':-) by me unintentionally I suppose over the years. Did not find it (might have lost in a basement flood c. 2000) but did find this article I wrote and found interesting. Old names, facts etc and a surprisingly big meet...a single red course with 150 runners.... It was Camp Schoelkopf on Saturday that was so cold. Many O’s ago….

USOF, ’81: page 1, 2, 3

Sunday - better, maybe 4' mistakes but still 10’ or so behind Charlie and minutes behind others.
Lost maybe 4’ on first point then was pretty steady with the rest. Just slow. The final chute was maybe 5m jog, 5m walk. 9 A meet type days (5 O-Ringen ‘16, West Point & BD this year) with this psychologically painful finish style.

Nice weekend weather-wise and old-friend wise. Never enough time to visit.

Sunday - Brown X - Splits

UNO Boulder Dash at Burnt Mt. Did Brown X - would give myself about a C/C- with close to 20’ mistakes plus the expected lame leg slowness. Botched #4 on the left trail route missing a connection and, climbing then descending and not stopping to say “hmm”. Eventually saw a sign on a tree that said something like “Crossing Tr” with arrows at ea end. So then noted it might be a T-jct which indeed it was and I was able to find easily enough. Knew what to do from there but a 7 contour line climb about did me in. Also blew #6 & #9, no excuses, just details. Slow all along. George Walker was 82” on the finish section, I was 127”. Can’t make it happen in spite of running on the track.

O dinner at a Dartmouth Dining Hall - as much variety in food as variety in the hundreds of students there. A very quiet night at Storrs Pond. Camped with Hans as next door neighbor. He’d left his tent poles home & we (Mary Jo, too) spent quite a bit of time setting up his tent with the “poles” he harvested from the woods with my Swiss Army knife.

Voila!

before the rainfly

Saturday - BrownX - Splits

Event: UNO Boulder Dash
 

Pawtuckaway early. Walked in rocky terrain. Hard to keep map contact in places. Actually quite well lost it for awhile, wandered west til I spotted a N-W valley with a big boulder in it. Notice more boulder mapping discrepancy
at "perusal pace" as I've been doing. In running as in competing, one might wonder what went on at times with mapping but usually not revisit to confirm map vs user issue. Took a while to clear the logging cuts. Kept on encountering the Woronoco Tr.

Saw a woman with two dogs, then two women who noted "there's a guy in a t-shirt & we have hats & gloves on" but I pointed out I'd been exercising 70' by then. It was pretty chilly this morning. Finally one solo male hiker - all on Fire Tower path.

At Audubon after work. Tried to run "hard" but it didn't really work, mostly lame leg. Noted a guy ahead on path, walking like he had a bum foot - using two ski poles. Turns out he was barefoot. Didn't ask why. He didn't look bereft or crazy. He did ask: "did you hear me talking to myself"?

UNO "map stuffing" meeting at Bundschuh's in the eve. Comtemplated when I might have first gone there - must have been before 2000.

At Harris Center. Went there with Bruce who walked some trail and then some thru woods-compass which got him a bit confused.

After we drove to Concord, MA with Bruce & Peggy. Stopped at Great Brook SP, Fiske St, then Orchard House & Old North Bridge. Dinner with Ned P and Cynthia. Home 10pm.