Training Log Archive: bl

Low voltage day

Had the echo &, by chance, the cardiologist reading echos for the day was someone I knew from college as well as my time at Concord Hospital '95-7. That opened the door to a good bit of interaction, going over the study & making light of alma maters & fund raising. Anyway, a fairly leaky mitral valve whose solution remains to be seen.

Missed any kind of run - came home from a half day of work, took a nap, then did some outside stuff. This eve, we went off for a ride to Canterbury, in part to see the Shaker Village. Was on call, the cell with under 5% charge but Beth had hers. The Village dates back to the early 19th century, very picturesque and particularly on the fine June eve that it was - rustling green leaves and waving grass in the breeze, birdsong, distant views, fields, gardens, dirt roads disappearing into the forests, a large pond, walls and all the stuff that can make a rural NE state like NH look so fine. Coming back, lights started to go on on Beth’s dash, suggesting a battery issue. She’d just had one 3 days ago, the car dying about 1.5 mi from home. I was coming home then, drove by & returned with a portable battery starter & she was home easily. Battery then fully charged.

This was the first outing since. Canterbury is about 18 mi from home. Tonight, eventually same thing - first various dash lights went on, then finally the car engine stopped in the last mile from home. So it was coast & coast some more down the long hill. I turned onto Allen with little brake or steering power & coasted to a stop 25 yds from our mail box. I had the Sears starter in the trunk for this undiagnosed problem should it reoccur. The battery read 10.4v. The car started started readily with the jump start but upon disconnecting the portable starter, the engine stopped again. So I restarted it & Beth drove into garage with the hood up about 18”, the starter battery sitting on top of things doing the work. So now the shop - but how lucky to get as far as we did w/o any frustration. No way one could have driven the car with the hood as it was. It remained the fine eve it had been.

I try to imagine this place in the cold, isolated winter of something like 1825 (the settlement started around 1816)

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Similar to yesterday - got there late, just after 7p. Silken eve, fitting for the last of May.

At BHS track around 5p - hazy, warm. 100s & 200s around 8' pace, 2 400s same pace. All work but good work. Have an echocardiogram Wed am, a catch up assessment of the ticker which I'm looking forward to.

No jog-walk yesterday - painted the bottom (for the last time?) and finished off the bright work I'd heated & scraped to bare wood. Left me pretty tired. Then went to S. Dartmouth for dinner with Jim & Colleen. It rained so hard this morning that it was hard to have a conversation at times under the cover. A tropical depression moving along the coast. Some sun by the time we got to NH.

In Mattapoisett, from Triad. Extremely hot at home & in Boston area- saw 95F on car thermometer on Rte 128. But 78F on North St. in Mattapoisett -- some sea breeze from Buzzards as well as proximity to water. But it was hot working under the cover. If only sweating only was training.

After had only energy for a walk & focused on the cemetery outside Triad. Usual peace & quiet and natural beauty - incl. a few huge rhododendron trees.

Can't keep up an every -day run regimen. Some is willpower but 2.5 hours in the car played a role too. Also days doing extra duty at work until end of June which incl. Sat. rounding for Matt's originally scheduled Memorial Day weekend. With aging comes hedging, or something like that.

First time since 5/7. Shouldn't be skimping, one can see oneself 'fading away'.

Nottingcook late, finished at 7:50. Still seemed hot & was as buggy as can be. Mosquitoes hovered more than bit, however. Nice to get out of the dark woods, to arrive into power line openness & see the big red ball of a sun disappear. Saw one peculiar animal - like a cat, doubt a bobcat but did not seem domestic. It quickly disappeared. Hard to believe it's Memorial Day weekend already.

BHS around 10:30, still cool enough with a breeze. Evolved into walk 100, run 200 a bit over 8' pace. First mile around 15:45, second was 13:05.

Plan was to return which I did around 5:30, some rain clouds & good breeze. Pretty much same as the morning, 2 miles, walk 100, run 200. 14:28, 12:42.
Iced the knee after both. Starting up the first lap made me wonder if I could get in gear which I did by the end of the first 400. Not a pace to cause injury but got the breathing going some.