Training Log Archive: Fanatic

Out past the black cows and back. Warm and humid.

Walking with Colette on the rail trail in Granby, Connecticut. We did a short out and back before driving to Bradley Airport to drop her off for a trip to Belgium.

Repeat loops on the condo grounds.

Decided to try a longish trail loop starting from Richmond Road in Lenox. Climbed first to Monk's Pond and then went south up to Olivia's Outlook. From there I did an out-and-back along the Charcoal Trail. Once back to Olivia's Outlook, I went north on the Burbank Trail before peeling off that to the right ad dropping down to Old Baldhead Trail, which took me to, surprise, Baldhead, a small peak that the bike trails like to traverese.

From Baldhead the trails lead back to my car.

An interesting aside: I sprayed a few pairs of socks recently with Permethrin, after I had picked up a couple of ticks while out running on trails one day. The Permethrin was leftover from my AT hike, so why not use it?

Today, I ran in one of the pairs that I had sprayed. Once home, I was pulling off my socks/shoes, etc., and noticed that there was a bit of duff on my socks, so I went outside to back them agains the railing. Most of the duff came off, but there were a few spots that didn't. Closer examination revealed that there were five dead, or dying, ticks on one sock!

So that Permethrin works very well. LOL

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Walk with Colette on the condo grounds. Rains stopped just long enough to get a mile in.

Another walk on the condo grounds. Colette was out shopping.

Walk with Colette out past Woods Pond and back to the condo. Colette is using a 10# vest when she hikes; she very nicely let me try it for the last half-mile of our walk. I'm not excited to use it again.

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Out past Woods Pond and back. Beautiful sunny day.

Hike with Colette on the mountain bike trails south of Reservoir Road in Lenox. Trails are in great condition at this time of the year--still soft, but not wet anymore.

Hiking in the Pittsfield Watershed north of New Lenox Road on the twisty bike trails. It's been a while since I've been up there and it appears that the trail network has changed a little. I stayed on the bike trails for most of the hike, but after a while I noticed that I was heading north a bit too much, so I turned around and bushwhacked in a southernly direction--bumping into some of the trails that I had been on earlier. My bushwhacking, rough as it was, brought me right back to my car! Yes, I was surprised to see it, to be honest.

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Walk with Colette out to the black cows and back, followed by a mile on the condo grounds. Colette was wearing a 10# weighted vest, while I just had sore legs. ;-)

Clockwise loop from the water tower in the southern end of Kennedy Park. It was going to just be a hike, but as the wind picked up and the rain started to fall, that provided a bit of motivation to do some easy running. Got back to the car slightly wet, but not soaked.