Training Log Archive: CleverSky

I had a meeting at 6:30, which meant that I had enough time after work for a little something, so I threw the wheel in the back of the car and headed down to check out a rail trail that I wasn't familiar with. The particular section I was on wasn't all that appealing; rather urban, and half of it was more like a sidewalk. Might be worth going back and trying the part on the other side of downtown.

I've been riding bicycles (and unicycles) for a lot of years, and I grew up in a very bicycle-oriented home. But in all that time, I've never owned any shorts that were designed for that purpose. I rode from Connecticut to California in 1983 wearing cutoff jeans. But on the way back from Sessions on Sunday, Nancy and I happened on a store that was having a big sale, and I picked up a pair of shorts. I also ride on rather dated equipment most of the time, but it does the job. I guess I'm rather in contrast to the kind of guy who I saw today, all dressed up in fancy bike clothes with sponsor logos and cool glasses and a fancy racing bike, getting ready to... ride on the rail trail. With the joggers and walkers and training wheel kids and unicyclists...

C • accessories 5

80 situps.

Sessions Woods, Red, 6.1 km, 6th place (I think). Certainly not the cleanest run in the world. Delayed some by laurel on #1, missed uphill a bit on #3, then ran right to the circle and stood there for a bit not realizing the pit was right behind me. Left-hand route on #4, attacked from the SW (the last part was slow). Blithered #8, trying too hard to ignore the unmapped MTB trails and not paying enough attention to the compass. The rest were fine, if not particularly fast.

Nashua River upstream from David E. Ross and back, yellow boat. I figured I wanted to to about an hour, and also figured that downstream would be about twice as fast as upstream, so that meant 40 minutes before turning around. I kind of wanted to pick some kind of a landmark for the turnaround, and a perfect one presented itself: a downed tree all the way across the river that I couldn't have gotten past without getting out of the boat (and it still wouldn't have been a simple matter).

I must say, I'm really impressed by whatever heuristic Ken has implemented for guessing what activity type I did when I upload from my GPS watch. I just did two sessions, and it correctly picked "paddling" and "orienteering" out of my own activity list. I don't know what criteria he uses, but it's working pretty well.

Pretty weird experience for Friday the 13th, though not as bad for me as for somebody else: mid-morning, my boss was apparently told to pack up the personal items from his office and was escorted from the building. And at 11:00 his direct reports were called into a meeting and we were told that his employment at the company had been terminated, and they couldn't tell us any more about it.

C • Experience 3

80 situps

I finally got around to putting the cyclometer that I bought a while ago onto the bike, and I had time for a quick spin, "around the block". Need to remember that the pavement on Tyler Road sucks, and I should definitely avoid going there unless they resurface it. I was looking forward to getting to the end of it, but I took the right and found that Gilchrest St. had been completely ripped up, so I was riding on dirt until I got to the Lunenburg line.

C • cyclometer 2

A little jaunt on the Incubus, beautiful evening. Caught a whiff of some lilacs.