Training Log Archive: CleverSky

20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats. Pathetic. But it's not looking like tomorrow will be much better, too much going on.

Lunenburg Project #11.
Northfield Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
<-> Connell Dr.
-> Mass Ave.
<-> Meadow Wood Trailer Park
-> Mass Ave.
-> Cross St.
-> Mulpus Rd.
<-> Hunting Hill Rd.
-> Mulpus Rd.
-> shortcut through a farm in Shirley
-> West Groton Rd.
<-> old road
-> Mass Ave.
-> Cross St.
-> Mulpus Rd.
-> Townsend Harbor Rd.
-> South Row Rd.
-> Island Rd.
-> trails
-> Gilchrest St.

A slightly longer outing than I had planned. I had figured on the main figure-8, with Hunting Hill added in. When I got to Connor (a street that had barely ever caught my eye), I decided to add it. Then when I got to the trailer park, I couldn't remember whether the roads in there are considered streets or not, but I didn't think I'd be doing that stretch of Mass Ave. again, so I ran through there just in case. And when going down Rte. 225, I saw that the houses on the north side are all on a parallel street that appears to be the old course of the road before the road got straightened and a modern bridge got put in (probably before I was born). But their mailboxes are on that parallel street, so I went ahead and ran it. The Fire Dept. street directory doesn't list it, and Google Maps shows it without a name. OSM calls it West Groton Rd. and has Rte. 225 listed as Old Massachusetts Avenue, but that's apparently bogus, because the street sign for on Rte. 225 says West Groton Rd., and the side road has no street sign. Climb is a very rough guess based on the overall shape of the climb graph from my GPS. Looks like this puts the Hickory Hills district to bed, and at 25% of the way through the year gets me over the 25% mark on both the list of named streets and the total distance (although I've done more than that -- I don't check off a street until it's complete, and I have a couple of long ones that are not quite done). In the NE quadrant (north of 2A and east of 13), it looks like I have everything except short parts of 2A and 13 themselves, Memorial Drive, North Cemetery, and Seaver Rd. (which I will likely leave for last).

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20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats, 20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats.

Lunenburg Project #10.
Northfield Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
<-> Townsend Harbor Rd.
-> Woodland Dr.
-> Hemlock Dr.
-> Pine Acres Rd.
<-> Hickory Ln.
<-> Pine Acres Rd.
-> Hemlock Dr.
<-> Hemlock Terr.
<-> Hilltop Ln.
<-> Birch Island Way
-> Hemlock Dr.
-> Townsend Harbor Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Northfield Rd.

If Island Road, on the north side of the lake, seems like a misnomer, it's got nothing on Hilltop Lane. No hill there! I also noticed that one of the houses on Northfield Rd. has done something dubious that I've toyed with doing, but never have. Presumably as a defense against drunk teenagers in cars armed with baseball bats, the mailbox consists of a smaller mailbox inside a larger one, with the space between filled with concrete.

Lunenburg Project #09.
Gilchrest St.
-> trails
-> Island Rd.
-> South Row Rd.
-> Crescent Rd.
<-> Crescent Terr.
<-> Townsend Harbor Rd.
-> South Row Rd.
-> Island Rd.
-> trails
-> Gilchrest St.

Temperature close to 50 F. Google Earth shows me turning around a smidge short of the town line on Townsend Harbor Rd., but this border crossing has a nice signpost that I was able to run around. GPS seems to have been behaving itself reasonably well today, though the repeatability in the woods is slightly off.

Mystery Blazes, temperature back down to the low 40s, so I wore short and long sleeve shirts. Time is a bit slower than last time, for no apparent reason; I felt pretty good while running.

20 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats.