Training Log Archive: cmorse

working the flower show today - no exercise today other than a brisk 20 minute walk around downtown Hartford looking for something breakfast like to eat before the show opened. But Hartford being the hip, swinging metropolis that it is, no Dunkin Donuts or even fast food joints open at 9:30 in the AM on a Sunday. Not open at all on weekends for that matter. After that a fine 8 hours standing around on concrete talking to folks with an occasional stretch. Then fighting with all the other exhibitors making a mad dash for the exit with all their plants at 6pm close only to have crappy driving weather for the trek back to UConn and then home after tucking the plants back in to the greenhouses. Sigh...

to/from Shenipsit

Got up to the parking area and no Striders in attendance, but Bruce Giguere and friend Marc were there heading out to do the Soapstone course, so I headed out with them, figuring I'd bail partway and head home.
They had yak-traks and other ice gear, which I didn't and the trails were very icy, but I managed to stay with them for a while, then cut off and headed home since I had run up to the forest and still needed to run home, plus I didn't want to overdo the mileage too early... Nice run...

early am road run, before the day gets away from me. 18F and windy, cold on the face. Lots of ice on the roads made for tentative footing along most of the course - Crystal Springs>Bakos>Sugar Hill>Johnston>Cook>Kendall Mountain>Sugar Hill and return.

GPS track w/ antenna very tight - track clearly shows me running down opposite sides of the road on the out/back section and through the Crystal Springs development I hopped up onto the grass next to the road for a few hundred meters and it very clearly shows where I left the road and ran 1-2 m off the side. Gives me good confidence in using the GPS to locate major point features and stone walls etc on a first pass of mapping and then 2nd pass to refine contours and fill in minor detail.

if I get anything in today it will be a road run this evening - ie not too damn likely...

late afternoon run w/ Jackson - just a mile, wasn't even far enough to warrant changing out of work clothes. But Jackson was happy to have done it and its more than I would have done otherwise. Tomorrow will be a long day spent at the flower show in Hartford so looking like a pretty bleak week overall - I guess we'll chock it up as a 'recovery week'

Kept waiting for an opportunity and never got out the door yesterday, so this AM I dressed before anyone else was up and went out at dawn for a 5 miler. About 20F and clear. Decent effort even if it was on roads - one of those runs that feels good to have done it once its done... Need more of these..

Family walk at Cross Farms doing the outer orange loop, ran a GPS track of the route with the new antenna - generally 2-3m accuracy. Good enough for a rough plot, will tweak when in the woods with a board and pencils...

- Splits