Training Log Archive: CleverSky

Lunenburg Project #16.
Northfield Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Elmwood Rd.
-> Flat Hill Rd.
-> Cortland Cir.
<-> Alder Way
-> Cortland Cir.
<-> Willow Cir.
-> Cortland Cir.
<-> unnamed access road
-> Cortland Cir.
-> Flat Hill Rd.
-> Watt St.
<-> Page St.
-> Flat Hill Rd.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Pine St.
-> Arbor St.
-> Mass Ave.
-> Northfield Rd.

Not feeling very spunky, and this was at a leisurely pace. Very nice day, probably easy to get a sunburn (I think I escaped), but it was definitely breezy and gusty, so I don't regret my decision to not try and fly. This should finish up my need to run on Mass Ave east of Arbor Street. Got the Village at Flat Hill, including the access road for the pipeline leading to to shared septic system, which doesn't really count as a road, but I did it anyway, as far as the gate at the end of the pavement. Watt Street is in appalingly bad shape.

GPS track is pretty flaky today, so I'm using the distance as measured by gmap-pedometer.

Well, it sounds like not only was the day flyable, it was basically epic (though a bit of a drive may have been required). So it goes. There's always next time.

C • I was wondering. Wind picke... 2

25 pushups, 50 situps, 25 squats, 25 pushups, 50 situps, 25 squats, 25 pushups, 50 situps, 25 squats.

The tableup thing was in use.

Across Holman, just to the dam and back. I got home from work when there was still some daylight, and the rain had stopped, so I decided to do something more interesting than the indoor exercises, and I decided to GPS it this time, too. My intent was to be very casual about this, but I wound up going at about my usual level of effort. I suppose it wouldn't be unreasonable for me to list myself as injured this week; although the bruising doesn't really hurt when I'm sitting around, and it didn't really hamper my running, it is affecting my sleep -- rolling over onto my left side (which I periodically do) is very painful, and I can't lie that way at all.

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

I think I may have done sonething useful at work today. That's good news.

25 pushups, 50 situps, 15 tableups, 25 squats. Getting up to speed on this job is occupying a lot of time, and it looks like a lot of time will be involved once I'm rolling along as well, as it's pretty busy times over there (which is why they needed to add a guy like me).

So, I went to work. And I have a 90-degree cubicle with a nameplate, and a badge that lets me in through the front door, and a computer on my desk, and a phone that actually works (at least I assume it does, but nobody has called me yet). And by the end of the day, I was a little less bewildered and was starting to get an idea of what it is that they want me to do (and it sounds like something I know how to do).

One way in which this place will likely be good for me is that my vegetable consumption is apt to increase, because there's a cafeteria in the building with a good salad bar. I rarely buy vegetables for home because I don't eat them soon enough before they expire (my pantry tends to contain food with long shelf life), but now I can have salad every day.

C • I assume 90-degree refers s... 2

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

Turkey Mountain, Red long course, M45. Not too bad, kept moving pretty well, injuries didn't slow me down. No instances of getting lost, one case of sloppy execution that might have gone better if I had taken a more careful route, and a couple of cases of getting to the circle but not seeing the flag right away. Only one of those resulted in much time loss, maybe a couple of minutes on a complex slope when I wasn't sure which lump was which and hesitated, figuring it out instead of heading off in some dumb direction. Also a questionable route to the last control, I went straight and pushed pretty hard, but in retrospect I think the route I never saw, taking the road on the left, was probably better. I was with Mika more or less from #9 to the end, trading off the lead at times, although I was about 35 minutes ahead of him. I didn't stick around for final results, but things were looking pretty good when I left, maybe ahead of all of the women (Ali ran Blue). ... Results came out, looks like I was 4th, behind Gnatiouk, Balter, and Carl Underwood, not too shabby (though they were all well ahead).

So, last weekend at the Billygoat I screaped up my left forearm and got a bruise on my left thigh. Yesterday I smashed myself below the left knee and on the left hip, plus I put a ding in my left palm. It seems that today I whacked my left ankle a bit when I stepped in a rocky hole. I kind of feel like I need to clobber my right side a bit to reestablish some symmetry.