Training Log Archive: bl

Ran Brown course for the A meet - some 3.4k straight - shortened to 3.2k. Met Ernst at Hayes Field, discussed changes on courses then back out for some more adjusting. Must be a bit on the hard side seeing as I knew where all the streamers were even if I had not run the legs. 3.2k is probably about right.

After parting with Ernst. Tired by the time I got back to car but no ITI negative feedback.

Brown (Sat) - Splits

Event: NEOC: Great Brook Farm NOD
 

Great Brook SP in Carlisle. Sunny, 60F or so (53F in house this am). Was going to do brown but no brown. Plan was to be accurate & steady. Mentally rusty; turned the 305 on & off a few times vs getting splits. Did not consciously note e-punch light/sound on a few controls which is not good. TP did the work. Nice work! Reminded what a neat place this is for multiple use.

1 uncertain, 30” - not a good AP
2 ok - nice woods in & ok out
3 left the path to early - some uncertainty - 15”
4 1/4000 proved useful but covered ground too fast, got a bit confused, got on trails I was not at all good w/ reloc - finally just went east, knew there was the large reentrant that way & relocated once there. 2’?
5 trails & some recognition fm 4
6 sloppy leaving field, some uncertainty but a flag appeared....
7 ok
8 left for cp where trail dips in reentrant, went straight to it in some green
9 straight
10 encountered jj
11 jj again tho we went different ways - maybe another red too?
12 back across dam - not sure about brook - finally N across green reentrant
13 lost a minute or so - not sure how - think I saw all the right trails/turns but relocated by a cp to the SSW in long depression - 1’
14 ok - been there before
15 along wall in field & to trail
16 went right to road - did not look inviting at all to go straight
17 & F straightforward
best time c 60’?

Found a cardboard cylinder on the car hood containing pencilled copy of Upton SF from the spring/summer of ’80. Not sure when I last saw it. Nice surprise, someone! Left with a NEOC membership application as well - about time.

Drove down Fiske as in memory lane. Ran into this turkey just about in front of the house. Would not get out of way...owned the road! Stopped to visit Pamela Sampson after nearly 20 years! She was home (now 83) - spent a very nice 30’ visiting & learning of her as well as Chris & Ian’s lives. She was amused to hear my age. Time is but the stream I go fishing in - but did not have time for Walden.

C • carboard tube 2

C • Old haunts 3

Green - Splits

Bright blue & brisk. Fall harbinger. To Turee Pond/SPS boathouse, stretched
there on the grass & back via half of XC route.

No hernia issue any more - just pick up effort/mileage and see what ITI
does. Nice weekend weather-wise in store.

Was waiting for new software updates to run their course & picked up the US ultralong champs map of Hueston Woods, Oxford OH, from late March (think it was) - an eternity ago. Time's passage takes on different flavors and shapes as it winds its way down. Can't always be sure what time it is....

G-maps
thought it was longer....

After work, on the dark side, light rain, dreary. Trail flooded by beaver industry which made for a nice diversion to Bog Meadow. NW cold front wx on the way to clear things up. Perhaps an O meet at Great Brook this Saturday.
QR practice

Mice 15

Slough & back, very still.

Had planned on BB but with Beth gone had pm dog chores. 3 years ago or so, they would have come along. Will have more time on the weekend anyway. Did the figure 8 loop in shade. Nice to be using the woods out back, "my" woods. Hadn't been on the figure 8 since maybe spring.

Misty-eyed autumn morning.

SPS XC, cool in shade. Don't think much of various infirmities which is key. Thinking positive is worth its weight in gold. Saw SPS football practicing...a fall key as is track a spring key. Calls back, at least one can mentally span the distance.

Need to keep track.

SPS after work, nice in shade. Try every day now and add a bit at a time.

Faraway series, photos from elsewhere, #76

RHODORA at Fatu Hiva, Marquesas Islands, 1987