Training Log Archive: CleverSky

I haven't looked yet, but I got a text message saying that the dumpster is gone.

Around East Boston Camps with Nancy, a bit of snow on the ground.

I finally got around to returning all of the returnable bottles and cans that have been accumulating since I stopped going to the office. I had two huge trash bags full, plus six 12-packs of cans. But since I started spending my time at home, I also switched to buying two-liter bottles, which represent a lot of volume but are still only worth a nickel. So I only got about ten bucks in refunds. (It's not about the money, of course.)

It's noad. Still is, actually. The roof is white, so are the deck and the lawn, but I don't expect that there will be enough to have to deal with.

C • Enough 3

WBNW, In The Dim. Rubber socks and spiky shoes and gloves and a headlamp that I never turned on because a bright moon was rising. I measured 4" of snow on my deck at one point, seems there was less than that by the time I was running, because it was landing on a warm surface. Under evergreens in some places it was bare ground. One fall, but the toe felt fine.

Couldn't get up the motivation to go out in the cold dark wet, so I went for a ride on the Motobecane in the garage. I listened to some John Oliver, choosing something on YouTube that was 30 minutes long. It turned out to be a highlight reel that somebody had sloppily cobbled together, a bit unsatisfying. When it seemed to be playing end credits (I couldn't really see the screen on my phone), I tried to look at my watch and managed to fall off the side of the rollers, which I don't remember ever doing before. Fortunately, this turned out to be about as minor an incident as I imagined it would be.

Annual physical, not much to report, no noticeable change in height, although I believe I'm about 10 pounds lighter than at the previous physical. Got a flu shot while I was there, but the band-aid is about the same color as my skin. No "say ahhh" any more, my mask was on the entire time.

C • bandaid 7

Neighborhood walk, In The Dark. Plenty of moonlight, though, so I only turned on my headlamp (which wasn't very well charged) on the two occasions when a car went by. Feeling a little off, maybe due to the flu shot, and the toe is still a little sore after enough walking.

Across the street, In The Dark. I got out fairly late, after a successful session of amateur plumbing (replacing the kitchen faucet), by which point light rain had started. I wanted to see if I could follow the new mountain bike trail at night, which I could, but just barely, and I did lose it a couple of times. Maybe I know where the north end of it is now so that I can try it in the other direction at some point. Surprised on the way there, near the stone wall on the trail in from Gilchrest, by a very large lean-to. It looks like some tree snapped off and got hung up at an angle, and kids used that as the backbone and propped a bunch of other branches up against it. Wasn't there the last time I used that trail.

I also rode my mountain bike down to Seeley earlier in the day to pick up my car, but I can hardly count that, since it's mostly downhill.

Back from Seeley, In The Dark. Rainy day, misty evening, good thing I don't have a streak or... oh, wait, yes I do. But mostly I needed to drop my car off for service. The kind of night when mostly what the headlamp shows you is a zillion water droplets. Toe still bothersome.

On the Oakham/Rutland line (partially on the rail trail) with Nancy. Signs said "Closed To All Users". Men vi läser inte engelska.