Training Log Archive: Ari-o

Up to the Bigelows with Lincoln and Jess. Picked them up at B21 after Lincoln and I took a spin to check out snow conditions. Looked not too bad, but definitely snow on the north side.

We started out at a nice jog and got a hill a mile in at which point my legs remembered that marathon 6 days ago and a couple of miles away. I'd be doing some hiking up the hills. We went up to Horns because the pond looked beautiful (and was) and then up to the South Horn, with some snow and postholing. We debated going across the ridge and decided that a) there might be a lot of snow and b) my legs were not up for it. So we jogged down from whence we came, and that's such a lovely trail.

Turns out we passed someone on Strava who did the ridge, and her post was "so much postholing" so … yeah.

Last year on May 24 I ran the Franconia Loop in the afternoon. It was dry.

The report from today: "There is deep snow on the Falling Waters trail. Those attempting the loop should bring snowshoes and micro spikes."

And it's 25˚ on the summit right now so it's not about to melt out.

Went to NP for pack day (packboard fits well in a Hubway basket) but my legs were not up for many stairs.

I did carry Joev's gravel to his car afterwards.

Would be more fun >3 days post marathon.