Training Log Archive: bl

Noon Luti loop. Princess Di declared a Frizzy Hair
Day (spitting rain, raw) so was free to roam & run. Ran near a 4 level for
a tad of personal accountability. Heaven knows, there's so little of it
these days. Passed over the 2 mi mark on the course, so felt I had a decent
mile (gradual up, gradual down) split in line - started looking for next
just after 7' - never saw it, was certain I'd missed by 8:10 or so. Must
have been running so fast that a moment's distraction prevented my seeing
it.

Event: NEOC - Mt. Tom
 

Bear Brook fieldwork. Good weather, no leaves/optinmal visibility (I thought), no snow yet mentality, felt the call of fieldwork. Did the math for the Mt. Tom meet, 115 mi ea way & this activity won out (13.5 to car park, get out, go to work). UNO needs to map another 2 or so km2 for '11 BD (to be done amongst several members if no professional). This parcel is about 0.5 sqk, generally flat, contains 2 fields, one quite large, virtually no contours - the last suggests it might have logging history. Many thick patches of new white pine, much vegetation change & hard to map. Enter a wood with high pines towering over height-of-eye & higher new growth, find an old ride running down the center (yellow stripe but choked with thick briar). Then some rough open patches, spaces in stone walls for machinery passage & old ruts & the mapping & symbols used tell the story. First pass always seems like making acquaintance. Virtually no boulders in this section. Dogs found lots of ticks & obnoxiously chased a horse. Started 0930 & was after 12 before I knew it.

Hayes Marsh, Bear Brook

C • Perhaps a section to not pu... 2

Nottingcook loop after a few chores. Wanted a run as well. Another 50F day, November quite a warm month. Gunshot not 50 m away just as I was leaving forest - over an embankment by a stream - could not see hunter, sure gave me a start.

Nottingcook DP, windy, windy. Cut thru a logged area for some variety. Dogs, in orange attire, found a hunter other side - I might have missed even with his orange. Mocha went right up barking, Zoe made a curious sniff. Hunter growled.

Dumped the dogs & went back out after a few chores. Up to Bow Center on a woods road, Branch Londonderry Turnpike, along Bow Center to School House & Walker forest access & home mostly on cart tracks & trails, finally Robinson & Dean Rds. Maybe 2 years since visiting section off BLT.

Entered the O half marathon at Fair Hill 2 days ago. Was going, then think not then OK, I'll go - flight for $149 after deciding not to drive. Will be home by 7pm Sat. evening which is very different from the initial approach I had which included driving to & from with Beth & dogs. So need a few miles under foot.

Had great expectations of a run in Mongomery but these petered out with the fairly hard rain & chill and too brief a visit with Bob & Eileen at their fairly remote home. Snowing on Hazens Notch as we departed. About 240 mi home via St. Albans, Montgomery, 91, 89.

Hazens Notch at last light...

Thanksgiving Day hike with family to Lana Falls & Silver lake in Branbury SP east of Middlebury. 48mi drive south to get there, sky cleared & proved a mild, most pleasant midday. Perfect destination - falls, woodland lake, easy trail, not much of a climb - just right for a group 8 to 68yrs. First time in 4 or so years that did not do the 5k Turkey trot. Can't say I missed it.

Silver Lake...



Group of Jenn, Gil, Angela, Mark, Nate, Janelle, Kai, Tao, Bob, Beth, Chris took photo (foster, jail or Jenn's), 2 dogs. Peter, Mel & Dylan & dogs opted out as did Mocha.

Jogged after returning, bikepath north from Jenn's. Quiet, some joggers & walkers, a few bikes, world without cars. Gray lake, Adirondacks in mist & cloud.

Diane on vacation, free to choose my way.Same loop as Monday, opposite direction. Ran virtually the same time w/o trying to do so. Long Pond portion was 2 seconds different. Drizzly, got warm enough for tee shirt part of time. Another honest lunch hour.... Makes up for evening calorie consumption.

SPS after work, into dark, half moon, felt positively balmy - tee shirt after 15'.
Fell flat on Silk farm Rd, small lip of macadam patch, went sprawling. Lady about 80m in front witnessed my clumsiness. Otherwise fine time, nary a car. Eventually arrived at track, feeling good inspite of Beth's "being done with sleep" before 5am today & including me, after a fashion, in her housework. So ran a 400m in darkishness, could not see watch. Would have liked to see a 86-7 but settled for 90" & back thru woods home.

A November evening in the Berkshires, 1967.