Training Log Archive: bl

Drove up to the regional park at the top of the ridge & jogged around and to Mt. Vollmer summit and environs. Everything is so green. Have not been in the Bay area in springtime, I don't believe.

Brought only an iPad and don't think I can get 310 data to AP and doesn't seem plausible on Beth's MacBook Air either.

C • Ipad 6

Bone weary day. Haven't shaken the torpor. Arose 0310, hurried off, made mistakes making me hurry more. Got to MHT only to wait. I can think how it could have been done had I really recalled. I've become rusty re airport-plane travel. Got moved to BWI vs Midway, then to Oakland. Always a treat out the window: hills, prairie, utmost aridity, later freshly snow-covered mountains. Finally emerald coastal mountains east of the Bay. A tiring day, 6.5 hrs to Oakland, endng up on a Orinda hillside where homes cling to steep slopes.

C • Been there. 4

Harris Center on a fine spring day - memorable with its joie de vivre feel. Made a course, walked-jogged accurately enough. Hard to keep map contact in the black stuff. Saw no one/nothing. I was sitting in a chair in the garden at the end and a older lady came by to chat. She was the garden curator & was both pleased and curious to see me in a chair, actually sitting in the still-too-early garden. She said she’s lived in Hancock for some 30 years. A nice place to live, I can see that.

Noted this scene - the folk song "Where have all the flowers gone?" seemed to be staring back.

C • Harris Center 2

BHS track around 5p. Calm, pleasant. Past years, there surely would have been some snow in sight. Best I did was an 800 a bit over 8'/mi pace.
Got the HR up some.

Token entry. On the PL with Mocha. Not much energy today - stayed up late watching a movie, got up early for a 7am BLS course at work. Drove Beth to the airport for her flight to California. I'm just beginning to look forward to CA - haven't done much travel in the past 3 yrs. I don't yet have a USOC focus though. I suspect it will come at the last moment.

Turned to pretty steady rain, mid 50s. Weights at the Y and made a point of working hard filling in the propane line trench dug last Nov., the soil gradually thawing and making it possible.

A record 77F in Concord yesterday. Previous high was 67 in 1978.

Nottingcook wander with O map. 74F today. T shirt & shorts. Nice time, some nice forest. Did note 2 swamps not indicated on map tho I've always noted them in the forest and one open marsh with only the yellow - odd since I've seen these so many times. Now to find the most recent map file... Watched the watch record about 6 splits with time & yet cannot find the damn things. And nothing under "recorded splits" when I try there. Not an issue with the 305 - never thought about it.