Training Log Archive: Charlie

Not a good sleeping night. Submoron shooting off fireworks at 11pm for a while. I'm sure it was quite good fun.

Rhonda had signed me up to help our neighbor chip up a pile of brush, so off I went at about 8;45. Turned out pretty well until I got down past the stuff that had been cut live, which chips fine, and into the stuff that had been scavenged here and was either long dead or rotten. Neither of those is at all suitable for chipping, so the next plan was to get this stuff off the grass and into a pile in the woods. and that took a good half of the time. Back home around 12:30, but curiously devoid of energy.

Rainy enough that a bike ride didn't beckon.

Had envisioned a longer excursion for the dog, but this is all she got. Earlier on her morning excursion around 7 she found a wild turkey egg on the wood chips on the trail. She was most pleased.

Event: WCOC Paugussett State Forest
 

Very handsome black-throated blue warbler hopping around while I was loosening up in the hot tub before heading out to find lampshades at Paugusset.

C • Don't think I've ever seen ... 2

Green course at Paugusset. apparently a re-run of a course from September 2015, but I wasn't there, so the first time for me. But I've been lost at Paugusset before.

Started out cheerily enough.
1. Up the trail next to the stone wall, then between the walls and right to it, except no flag. Oh, there it is, on the slightly bigger cliff to the SE. Pretty sure it was on the wrong cliff, but no real problem.
2. More or less up the stream bed, bearing left in the reentrant and aiming for the R side of the marsh. Around and past, heading up the reentrant on the R side of the hill and right in.
3. More or less on compass. A little hiccup when I came to a bunch of bikers on a trail who were interested in telling me all about a woman who had lost her black lab. I promised to look for it. I thought I had been at the big trail, but I wasn't there yet, came to the wall before the big trail and was a little surprised about it, but then pretty easy. Stone wall, marshy stream, edge of the knoll, second marshy stream, and I could see the boulder ahead.
4. Fought my way SE to the narrow trail, a little funky following it through marshes and deadfall, to the corner of the larger trail and then off the next corner, angling up the hill and into the twilight zone. I was pretty sure I had come to the exact spot, but no flag. Almost just kept going, but searched all the hills heading south as far as the reentrant, back and forth, then dropped down to relocate off the marsh where I ran into Bill and Nellie scratching their heads on the unmapped mtn bike trail. Joined them for a bit, but decided I had no idea, so I went NW in hopes of finding the stone wall N of the control. That done, I headed south along the knoll and the large (if overmapped) cliff, to the area more or less on the NW edge of the circle, where I saw Bill, who had already found the bag. So I looked around there for a bit and turned it up, in a location that looked nothing like what I was expecting,, and if my track is to be believed a place near the N edge of the circle which may not be mapped. Lost 16:30 there, compared to what my watch said when I first got there.
5. Another disaster. I really can't be trusted in this area. What happened was that I was further N than I realized, wandering through some really big features for quite a long time until I finally found something solidly identifiable. Looks like another 10 minutes lost here.
6. I suspected this one might be hard, and I wasn't disappointed in that. Got over fairly near, found a likely looking boulder with no flag, which might be the one generally to the WSW. Wandered down to the marsh, up the reentrant maybe as far as the bigger boulder, then decided I needed to cross one more spur, confirmed when I saw Nellie coming the other way. Probably 5 more minutes lost in this charade.
7. The rest is more or less fine. Up the reentrant N of the marsh that is along the line, just S of the pond beyond it, up and over the renetrant to near the nest pond, then W to the trail following it as it switchbacked generally NW, to the junction then left on trail all the way. Saw Bill just behind me there.
8. Nice leg, NNW to the reentrant, then NW up the hill, crossing my track from 1 to 2, aiming left of the marsh and seeing the rocky knolls before the cliff and right into it.
9. Down to the top of the cliff pretty expeditiously. Oh, at the foot of a 4 m cliff. How to get down? Very carefully.
10. Followed stone wall right along the line. Got down to the area but searched a bit because the boulder was behind a rootstock.
F. A little slow on the trail.

A fine day, started cool but warming up fast.

Map

GREEN - Splits

First time in a while. Not bad, but had to charge the battery first.

W. Simsbury and W Granby excursion. Getting better. Nice to be out.

In the gym with Eric, usual stuff, plus one leg stand ups, GH raises

Dog walking at the lake. She had her stitches out first so she did some celebratory swimming and rolling around. Quite a fine day for the dog.

Warm day, and time to get a little more distance. Flirted with going further, but this was enough. Have to build up in the next 4 weeks for our trip in Croatia.

First shiitakes from the logs we put up the winter of 2017.

in the gym with Eric, more or less the usual stuff. A little tender in the R hip, otherwise ok.

With Rhonda. Her first ride of the year, I think.

With R&S at the lake. Sassy has three more days under restrictions until stitches come out on Thursday, so she was pulling pretty hard on her leash. Perhaps some sled dog genetic material in there.

Another spin around December's night o course, since the streamers are up. Drew a little blood, which makes me think that shorts aren't ideal for this sort of training.