Training Log Archive: CleverSky

Bertozzi Area with Nancy. Continued ice melting, some mud, some slush, still some ice.

I finally got around to signing up for CityStrides. Back in 2012, before I had a GPS watch, I was trying to see if I could run the streets in Lunenburg, using a little GPS tracker to keep track; I was looking at the tracks on Google Earth. I was able to export the tracks for those from Attackpoint and import them into Garmin, and we'll see if CityStrides picks them up. My LifeMap is a bit comtaminated by bike riding, skating, paddling, flying, and worst of all, a few times when I didn't stop it properly and it kept recording. So it goes. It's interesting to see the map growing as it finds more runs that I've done.

A figure-8 through the Lane Property, In The Dark. Not so much oomph again. A warmish day had softened up the iciness considerably.

Squannacook RIver WMA, In The Dark. Footing a bit better, and in some places under the evergreens it was bare ground.

Across the street, In The Dark. Icy and somewhat treacherous, not that entertaining. I'll probably find somewhere else less trafficked to go until the snow conditions change.

Down to Jaxx, In The Dark, to get some trash bags. But I was unaware that they close at 8 PM in the winter, instead of 10 PM. So, no trash bags for me.

Across the street, In The Dark. Time for the heavy spiky shoes. Just about everything was icy frozen footprints and tire tracks.

Snow dealings, round 1: my driveway. Maybe I should have gone out late at night before this had a chance to freeze. The snowblower did okay on the upper half, but then lower down it was riding up on top. So I used the pusher to scrape it into long rows, and then took the snowblower out again to clear those rows off onto the sidelines.

Pound Ridge, Red, 7.5 km, 5th. I'm considering this one to be a race, since it's closer than most of the stuff this year has been. The meet was yesterday, and almost nobody showed up because the weather sucked. But there was also an option to do it today. Nancy and I were signed up, but uninterested in doing that long drive to run in cold pouring rain, so we switched to today, like most people did. There were actual controls out, and epunching, and I got to use my new combo compass and SI card, which was pretty nice. The only things it didn't have were meet staff, on-site results, and we printed the maps ourselves. Fine with me.

Tolerable performance. The only mistake in the circle was on #11, where I saw a large boulder on the ground but didn't see it on the map because it was under the circle, and I went as if it were a different large boulder. Beyond that, there were several controls where my route could have been better. #2 in particular was substandard: an easy leg, but for most of it, I didn't know exactly where I was, or was mistaken about it. I was still managing to go in the right direction, and I did know where I was on the last part. Phil had started some unknown amount of time before me, and I first spotted him well up ahead near #10, I almost caught him on #11 but I made the error, then I did catch him at #12 and then pulled ahead.

Very nice to have a chance to do this again. Thanks, HVO!

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