Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Round trip between Branch Avenue Metro and Rosaryville.

Half the time I spent at Rosaryville. Surveyed the two new large rootstocks in the southern part of the map that had been spotted during the meet last November. Also the several even newer rootstocks in a large area of blowdown just west of one of the first two and a few others on the way over to the eastern fringes of the park which I never field checked the first time around (it appears, based on the direction almost all of the new rootstocks fell, that a significant windstorm hit the park from the west sometime since November - I'll have to go take a look at what it did to the west end of the park next chance I get). Covered the latter rapidly, partly because features were rare and partly because I didn't take the time to capture all of the thick vegetation in the southeast adequately, it being a low priority given how uninteresting that corner of the park is. I may simply make the whole area light green for the moment - it wouldn't be far from the truth, excepting the thicker patches with I mostly did map.

Somewhat disappointingly, there didn't appear to be any new rootstocks in the large bland area across the road east of Dower House Pond.

Cycling parts of getting to Greenbelt and back (took Metro out but cycled all the way home).

Field checking and three hours doing invasive plant removal at Greenbelt, discounted to half of the elapsed time. Invasive plan removal was mostly pulling the roots of honeysuckle to prevent them spreading. Found out that the big rough open patch I ran through early in the blue course in January was the result of the NPS invasives commando unit poisoning an iolanthus tree that had taken over that patch of forest - apparently the species sends out roots from which sprout apparently separate trees such that a fairly large stand can be all one individual.

Cycling to work. Home by way of the Freer Gallery for a very strange film by Oshima, Three Resurrected Drunkards.

Cycling to work then home by way of PCRM.

Another day without cycling or exercise for its own sake. Still did a fair bit of walking, primarily home from the Kennedy Center after another dance performance from the Arabesque selection, but there's a limit to the amount of walking I'm willing to log in a week if it didn't mostly occur in chunks larger than an hour.

Woke up, as no doubt a number of other Attackpointers did, to a beautiful but inconvenient snowfall. Although it might be enough to go skiing on flat grassy areas so maybe I shouldn't be down on it. Mostly, I'm worried it may still be around next weekend to interfere with field checking then.

Absent other exercise in the day, I felt I at least needed to walk home on the snowy and icy sidewalks. Carried a moderately weighty backpack but this was still, despite the footing, barely justifiable to log.