Training Log Archive: CleverSky

25 pushups, 50 situps, 25 squats, 9 pullups. Didn't have the 10th pullup in me.

Three games at Harvard Lanes with Nancy and the kids, 84/84/87. Pretty pathetic scores, but those were the three best games of the night. Partway through the first game, it switched to "cosmic bowling", which is not especially to my liking. I had to basically unfocus my eyes and just heave the ball generally in the right direction. The last game was done in "hasty style", although we were still taking turns, so I was only hurrying up for brief stretches. Stephen won a bazillion tickets playing skee-ball and related games.

C • Candlepins 4

Snow dealings, round 2c: cleared the area around Mom's car.

Snow dealings, round 2a. We got about 7" after it settled, started as snow but I suppose the last bit was probably rain, so it was pretty wet and dense. The antique snowblower started without any fuss and cleared the driveway okay, but when I tried to do the mailbox, it couldn't really handle the glop and kept getting clogged. Then it acted like it was low on gas, so I added some more, and after a while of running for a few seconds then almost stalling, over and over again, it got into a mode where it I could start it, it would run for a few seconds, then quit. So I pushed it back to the garage and finished the mailbox with a shovel.

Snow dealings, round 2b. I let Nancy's driveway sit while it rained during the day, so by the time I got there it had consolidated down to something like an inch of very dense slop, which I was able to plow into berms and toss to the side.

Travel day, driving back from Vermont, and a little firewood schlepping at Mom's, making sure she's well provisioned in advance of the snow.

Yuletide lethargy.

Bolton Valley, with Alan, Geneva, Celia, and Jim. Seven runs, of which five were with various subsets of the family and two were black diamond runs on my own. Special early-season deal, only $25 for a full-day lift ticket. We stayed as long as it was interesting, then headed home to prepare for the big meal tonight. I was using a pair of 178 cm modern-ish skis that used to belong to "Uncle Lucky" (a relative of Alan's friend Bob). Major issues with my glasses fogging, I should have put something on them.

C • temporal inflation 5

Pullups on my brother's pullup handles.