Training Log Archive: TomN

4-mile loop starting about 11 a.m. It was a struggle. My legs were dead wood. I guess the 84-mile week caught up with me.

And the ride back into work this morning. A colleague at work started these monthly rides last fall. We didn't have one in January or February, and this one is really the March ride a week early (to take advantage of the weather).

I met three others at 38th St. & NW Branch. Two came from downtown DC, and the other guy and I came down the Sligo Creek trail and joined the NW Branch near the West Hyattsville metro. We rode separately, but arrived at 38th St. within a couple minutes of each other. Then it was about 40 min to Greenbelt in a group of 4. We all work in the same building.

This may have been the last "First Friday" ride. The organizer is moving to Boulder to work at NOAA. Hopefully there will still be climate science in the next few years.

Another run at noon. Warmer today. Tried to keep a slow pace because I'm riding home later.

Two butterflies this run: a polygonia and something else, smaller, that flew up into a tree so I couldn't see it. The polygonia was not faded at all but it probably hatched last fall.

I put my bike in the car this morning and rode it home this afternoon. Left around 4:15 and there was still some light at 6. T-shirt and shorts the whole way. It was in the 70s when I left and dropped about 10 degrees by the time I got home.

Wow, was I depleted. Almost too tired to eat, but shoveling in food is mandatory, even if it's not fun. Not enough test cases, but doing the same ride in the morning seems so much easier than in the afternoon. Maybe it was the run earlier today. Home is a slightly higher elevation than work, but not enough to make a real difference.

Goddard perimeter road and antenna range. Calm, 56 deg. F, partly cloudy. What a perfect day for running!

Biking to work. I didn't have to be at work today, but I came in anyway just to have a bike ride. It's such a great route, and the weather was irresistible, and there was hardly any traffic on account of the holiday. The back gate to the Center is closed on weekends and holidays, so I had to come up Goodluck Road and Cipriano Road to the main gate. A little shorter, but not as nice as the roundabout way past the Metro station through Old Greenbelt.

Florence and I drove to Patapsco today. But the orienteering wasn't today, it is next week. So I went to Wheaton Regional Park and ran a couple of trail loops instead.