Saturday Oct 27 |
 | biking 2:45:00  | |
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| misadventure - was going to join up w/ club ride at Columbia. took Metro to Belleville, then rode almost to Columbia against the wind, decided i was too tired to try to catch the group and turned back. A whole lot of Metro for not so much riding. 25 min. faster back to Belleville. to metro and bike shop included. |
| running 7:00 [3] | |
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| over to wilmore to watch cross country districts |
Friday Oct 26 |
| biking 45:00 [2] | |
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| to nursing home, shopping. cold drizzle on way in. not too bad, everything had dried out by the time i was ready to ride home. |
Thursday Oct 25 |
| biking 10:00 [1] | |
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| to bank to deposit checks. fine cold drizzle started ahead of schedule, but it is not a problem if properly dressed for. |
Wednesday Oct 24 |
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| mild cold, very tired, but feel much better already after 24 hours eating and sleeping therapy |
Tuesday Oct 23 |
| biking 2:00:00  | |
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| Started at 4am in the morning to catch the CTA in Evanston before the 7am no bike rule, so the entire ride was in darkness. Saw a wide range of what Chicago has to offer in the way of riding, some backroads and not so backroads to a paved trail along a powerline right of way that was not very attractive but offered plenty of rabbits darting out in front of the wheel, running for a couple of seconds and zipping back into the underbursh. After a while i figured out that they were doing it for sport, and relaxed.
Then past the Chicago Botanical Garden onto a limestone path with lush grwoth on both sides, then pavement with lots of street crossing, then a fast attractive paved trail along the Metra tracks to the very quiet residential streets of Evanston, and onto the express downtown. |
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| C • wow 5 |
| biking 10:00 [2] | |
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| then back home along gravel path from metro station |
Monday Oct 22 |
| biking 5:30:00  | |
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| Rode down from Illinois Beach to Lake Forest because the Metra wasn't running, then into forest preserves, met friend and rode more through very attractive forest preserves of 'savannah', wetlands and woods (unfortunately maintained as such by extensive bulldozer and herbicide to take out invasives like buckthorn and honeysuckle) |
| hiking 30:00 [1] | |
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| around Illinois Beach, unfortunately hiking trails were not marked and did not correspond to schematic park map, so there was a lot of walking through parking lot and along road to get to trails |
Sunday Oct 21 |
| biking 3:45:00  | |
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| from the meet hotel to catch 7am mass at St. Patricia's in Hickory Hills just east of the orienteering venue, then to Country lane woods. Then north to the Metra after the meet. Metra to organic restaurant in Evanston, which had some of the best food I have had in a restaurant in a long time, and splurged on wine and vegan chocolate cake etc. Then from Waukegon, after being put off a train because it was too crowded to Zion in the dark having real difficulties picking up things from the bike map (the next day I saw that the bike access was just a little slot in the edge of woods - not really even visible in daytime) and so circling around for quite some time, finally taking the obvious route that I should have taken in the first place, and arriving at Illinois Beach State Park.
Slept in my bag and bivy sack. Ground was hard and lumpy. Skunk and coyote pair pawed at the saddlebag with the food in it, but scurried off when I spoke sternly.
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| orienteering 1:45:00 [3] | |
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| Tough race. Miscalculated one line and fought a lot of briars to control 6. Completely muffed 9, circled around, ran on trail all the way to the start, went back and got it. |
| running 10:00 [2] | |
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| warmup |