Training Log: CleverSky

Down the street and back with Nancy during intermission of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.

OK, I'm well enough to do this. Planned out a nice route, and it turned out well. Water levels are low, so I didn't have to deal with too much in the way of stream crossings or mud. The one exception was that the Friendly Trail (now with Private Property Keep Out signs) was flooded out in several places by the beaver pond, and I had to walk around those. Otherwise not much in the way of places where I needed to get off the bike.

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Not far, not fast. Some pretty intense coughing today (not at all unusual for me on the tail end of a cold), and I'd say incrementally healthier. But not back in form yet.

A lap around the outside of Table Rock Conservation Area. Access to this piece of property is... interesting. On the Northfield Road side, there's a parking area, a nice big trailhead info sign, and access is via Old Stagecoach Road. But the people who live on Old Stagecoach have put up signs that I suspect are deliberately misleading, that appear to say that the road is private property, keep out. Then there are supposedly (according to AllTrails and OSM) access points on both New West Townsend Road and Howard Street, but I saw no sign of them. I think I did spot another trail off of Howard that links up with the trail network in there, but it's on private land (appears to be owned by some corporation based in Ohio, so I don't think trespassing would likely be a problem). So I didn't ride my bike in there today, though I did go off-road just a little bit on the way home. Got hit with a few drops of rain near the end, nothing like the thunderstorm that came tearing through later on.

Still not back to 100% on the health front, but I took my last bunch of pills tonight.

Decided to go out for some modest mountain biking, but I looked at the radar and saw that there was some rain in the offing so I had better do it before that stuff arrived. I got as far as the golf course, and I started feeling drops, so I checked the radar again and decided to turn around. On the way home I got drenched, then I got to the house and it appeared that there had been no rain at all. Pretty local shower. A little later it started raining here, though, and I decided I'd had enough anyway.

Headache came back in the afternoon, though not nearly as bad as yesterday. Still come congestion and coughing and fatigue, but I'm on the upswing.

Woke up with the worst headache I've had in years, hit it with everything I've got, and beat it down to a tolerable level. No particular sense that it's directly related to covid, but maybe indirectly.

Nancy was going out, so I went with her, which was maybe good because otherwise I don't know if I would have gotten out at all. The headache wasn't really gone, and ramped its way back up after we got home so I've been groaning in bed all afternoon. Not much fun. The walk itself was fine.