Training Log Archive: ernst

The candidate requested a "walk through College Woods", so I brought 2 pairs of snowshoes along - new experience for him as he is from the South. Picturesque winter scenes all around.

C • The Candidate 2

Round 2. We got another 7 inches and it is still snowing. Cars, and clearing around driveway and to woodshed. Total accumulation 15".

Finally after a long day of chaperoning etc of a candidate, I got myself out the door. I used Nancy's BC Tele skis - mine had sticky goop on them.
Around the hole. Beautiful out, no wind, moon out, not cold. Snow was "fresh and fine-grained" as it says on most hard waxes. Blue Extra worked great.
First I had to make tracks which was very slow. Then, on the main trails, there were ski tracks, snowshoe tracks, foot tracks, so I used whatever was suitable, but also fresh-tracked a couple of connectors for future use. Ahh! skiiing!

Shoveling Phase 1. Cars, pathways, and porch. About 8 inches. By evening there was a total of 10 inches. Another 8 are expected overnight - we'll see.

Too bad I don't have time to play in it. Instead I have to do contingency planning for two on-site interviews that coincide with these storms amidst partial shutdown of the campus. Hours of emailing....grrrrr

Running around the block and delivering the very last mortgage payment. Clyde and I will miss the monthly chatting occasion, but wowed to not stop it entirely.

C • Mortgage 4

Stratham Hill Park. Well, I had a map with me, albeit a trail map with very faint lousy GPS contours. And I have never been here before, so I count it as orienteering. Ended up on several trail loops that had not yet been mapped, plus I did some shortcutting. I have been meaning for a long time to "scout" out this place. It would lend itself perfectly for staging O-events, because of its two big parking areas. Unfortunately the woods are extremely bland: no intricate contours, and mostly void of rock features. That's too bad. However the bike trail designers have gone wild with numerous switchback loop-a-dee-loops. Could be an interesting non-groomed ski-O venue, or bike-O perhaps.

C • Stratham Hill Park 2

We went to the Rockingham Grove Fundraiser in Portsmouth. Interesting scene in a Bank Atrium with dressed-up fundraisers, mostly middle-aged to older folks, some very accomplished wild couples dancers, but all seem to have a lot of fun. The band was great as usual.

Pre-TG dinner run (our family party is today on Black Friday). I continue my cautious training approach with very slow first mile, then work my way up to hill tempo and relax periods. But actually ended up with a tempo mile at the end, since I had no firm plan to do intervals etc. Beautiful morning, sunny, 38F, no wind. Perfect! Around SH, then an outer loop through W Foss - to Surrey and home.
Laps: 10:45, 7:22, 8:29, 9:19, 7:02 (mostly a function of trail runnability. Last 1.3 miles on pavement.

At Thompson Forest with Nancy.