Training Log Archive: cmorse

BSP > along cemetary > Charter Oak Suites > Shelter Falls

felt like a decent run, pushing the pace a few times. Measured the climb back up to Charter Oak - 800m, 40m climb - but forgot to hit my watch - about a 4 minute climb - suffering by the top. Might use this as a climbing benchmark. Good day to get out of work for a while.

Ran up to Doug's to retrieve the van which was in for service. Felt tough on the uphills, rest was ok, but the Puma's are getting pretty beat - I felt my feet hitting the pavement with every step.

Mid-day run at work. Ran over to the new Hillside Environmental Education Center (ie the old landfill turned parking lot) which has some new nature trails around a marsh to the North. The nature trail was obviously cut in early spring through very, very rough open and has grown up quite a bit over the summer. Passable, but quite rough going. The latter wooded sections were better footing, but not well worn and would have been hard to follow if not for the new flagging tape hung. once the tapes distintegrate, the trail will be harder to follow. Every trail is simple marked 'Nature Trail' - no differentiation between any of them so choosing which way to go took a little head scratching, but luckily there were a few overview maps out there that one could deduce where one was and choose a route. Eventually hooked up to a broad jeep road which took me over to Shelter Falls park which I did the usual route (been a long time since I've been there though). Then back and took the jeep road all the way up the hill to Charter Oak apartments - comes at about the 43-45 minute mark in the run and a long steady uphill grade - good workout. Then down along the road to nowhere (running in rough cut grass) to Subway to get my lunch. According to the GPS from my building, full route and ending at Subway was exactly 10km. Never felt terribly energetic, but felt really good to be out on trails after a very long hiatus. And my new shoes felt real fine....

Didn't get out running - another long day at work, then took the kids to get new shoes for school - starts tomorrow. what the heck, while we're buying shoes, lets spring for a new pair of trail runners. And a few sets of laces for all the shoes currently sitting on the sidelines with busted laces.

Now I just need to take all those shoes out for some long overdue exercise...

Out the dirt road and back after putting the kids to bed. Had the red bike light with me to warn off approaching cars and to highlight the occasional crater in the road left by the sub-morons doing hole shots. Nice night to run - 10:07 out, 11:07 back. A nice 25 minutes just sitting on the back deck cooling down staring at the stars too... lots of bats out tonight (ok, most nights)