Training Log Archive: CleverSky

I have fond memories of skating on Lake Massabesic once as a kid, when there were iceboats out, and I've always wanted to get back there. So now I have. But it wasn't very good. Cold and windy (and I was a bit underdressed), the lake was mostly snow-covered, except for a few swaths where the wind had blown it away, but the ice was very bumpy. (And my skates could probably use sharpening.) Took a couple of falls when I got my skates caught in cracks, and on the second one I came down pretty hard on my right knee. But at least I got out skating. (A bit of this was walking through an inch of consolidated snow to get to and back from the clear ice.)

50 situps.

10 pullups, 50 situps, 25 pushups, 25 squats.

50 situps.

Decided it was time to reclaim the floorspace in my laundry room. I think it had been over eight months. 185 bottles, 169 cans.

10 pullups, 50 situps, 25 pushups, 25 squats. All sloppy, but it still counts for something.

50 situps.

Game 1: 34 52 81 7- 72 34 9- 3/ 72 7/6 = 97
Game 2: 45 7/ 6/ 9- X 81 81 -7 7/ 9/9 = 135
Nancy trounced me with a 123 in the first game, but faded with a 107 in the second, so I came out ahead by two pins. Started with a 15 pound ball, but realized after a few frames that I couldn't handle it today, so I found a 14 and that was much more satisfactory.

Had some daylight left, so I stopped by Townsend State Forest. A couple of dead-end out-and-backs on trails that I think are not on the map (I wasn't carrying one), the first dead-ending at the cleared area that I assume will soon be new houses, and the other looked like it should be leading to a hunter's stand, but I didn't see one. Very warm in the morning, though it had cooled some by afternoon. I seemed to have some vision issues, a bit of tunnel vision and some vague spots, intriguing but not alarming. Trails were fairly well-trafficked in the southern part near the road, less so further up, and a lot of water to detour around.