Training Log Archive: bl

Event: UNO Gunstock
 

In vein of "all work & no play makes Bob a dull boy": Sat. pm, walk-jog across peat bog - down a grassy road that needed wear thru the bog. But it ended in a jumble of thick pines and dug trenches filled with dark peat water. M got on far side of one & was afraid to cross back until she believed she'd be left behind. Then she literally jumped the entire thing. Z needed help - too steep, too deep kind of thing. The sat view was surprising - so unapparent at ground level. Didn't find any open woods but didn't really expect to find.

Visited Castine town after - really quite lovely, spring filing in.




Time-ravaged relics - a hunter's hideaway. Boat in a 400' by 80' shed that was built around 1960 for a peat harvesting operation. Hard work, little gain. Lots of neglected boats & related debris round the shed.

Drive back Sunday, 500 mi, 53 hrs RT, boat work, no time for much of anything else, eg, training.

WTF with dogs looking for a sofa that had been dumped but did not find. Chilly, fine morning.

Drive to North Penobscot-Castine for boat work time. Spring time in eastern Maine, too. 4.5 hrs. Marvellous reflections on Penobscot River at Bucksport and at boat shed around 8:45 - peepers and what sounded like a large rock splashing - a beaver's tail & then a V wake on the water surface in the dying light.

Luti loop at noon, like old times. Breezy & dry but warm. Had black shirt on & was glad to be done with Clinton & turn toward shade on Silk Farm.
Legs felt good, need more of that.

"CPU Dude" came at 3:30 & technology puzzles were solved by 5p. Like a light switch being turned on.... "Hey, wait. Don't go!" But he leaves, lights dim considerably - but we see more than before and what didn't work does.

Soporific rainy pm, thought I'd not get out doors. Hurried home after work (5d this week) & trip to Best Buy for a router but young man who was to help install & solve email headache postponed a day.

Rain stopped, got going a bit with the idea of seeing what the Bog looked like - so made it to edge with dogs, noted no change: a stick-in-the-mud mud flat.
Spoke with someone from F&G re the same earlier.

A beaver is what a beaver does...an admirable worker among other things...

at Moreau

SPS XC, noon, breezy, chilly, perfect. Legs felt good but left it at that.

Good run, good temperature. Turned map over & knew it was going to take a lot of concentration. Got all the points cleanly. Didn't notice too small control circles until much later. 2nd M65.

Long Brown Y - Splits