Training Log Archive: bl

Drive to West Point thru Newburgh with Beth. Left Mocha with Piwczyk's. Drove to Lake Popolopen which was so very jammed with Cadets' cars - being used as an off-campus parking due to a sports weekend. Got a motel on south side of Highland Falls. Have stuff for camping but it was a raw, mostly rainy day. Drove to Seven Lakes Dr. as well as Lake Welch Dr. at end of day, before dinner.

C • Cadets' cars 2

Y after work. Hadn't been in maybe 2 wks. Encountered Eugene S there. We talked about skate skiing for awhile and fact that he'd gone to Waterville Valley
some 40 times over the winter.

Watched a Usain Bolt documentary recently - winning 9 gold medals in the Bejing, London and Rio Olympics. Jamaica is a poor country but rich with fast twitch genes, winning the 400m relay at those 3 Olympics.

Last rehab session. Helpful and enjoyed interactions with participants. Feb 14, first day, seems a very long time ago.

SPS walk, start by 89. Cool, pleasant. WP this weekend. For first time, no preparation other than walking - no expectation other than finishing brown and being satisfactorily accurate.

Boston marathon day (30k entered). Fine for spectating. Temp hi 60s, sun & cloud, SW breeze. Parked off Commons. We watched from near the finish, then walked to Boylston-Hereford junction and then Hereford-Comm Ave. intersection. Huge cheering crowds, so much to take in. Many runners recuperating in the Public Garden and Commons after. Had planned to go to Concord, MA for a Walden jog but got on 93N leaving the city (90W evaded us) and fate was secured, heading, then going, home.



A fine day in the city, blossoms beginning. Had not walked on the Comm Ave promenade in quite a while. Would have liked to see "KV Switzer" finish but no telling when & time to move on.
Looking the length of Hereford St.

Nottingcook loop around 4-5pm. Much like the other day, but longer. Strava stopped for maybe 300 yds worth tho it doesn't seem to show it. Take that back with larger image. Some ferociously thick woods near the PL.

Two walks, not so much about "training".

AM DP with Mocha, a perfect spring morning. We went to the power line pond looking for tad pole puddles in the usual place but no puddles, only a temporary stream crossing the road. Peepers proclaiming anyway.

Late in the day, in part because we'd been nowhere, I offered Beth Stark Cemetery as a nearby destination. Stark is the burial ground of Stark upon Stark (Am. Revolution, Civil War, earliest c. 1815) as well as some navy Winslows and Robert Lowell (important American port) as well as his parents. Today I learned that the cemetery was moved in toto in 1962 for the Everett Dam flood control project, incl. apparently the surrounding walls of carved granite blocks.

I first visited Stark on one of our two coldest weekends of the winter. I'd heard about Boston Brahmin, cosmopolitan, Lowell on NPR and was amazed to learn his final resting place was nearby, in "forgotten" Dunbarton.

Nottingcook walk - up Allen, into brush dump, across an old field and onto an old path that had a way of continuing in thick pines. I'd been there a bunch over the years - was surprised to see any route thru. Then into open woods with a hunter's stand on the edge. So maybe the path that surprised was a route to the stand tho a most back door approach - tho come to think, a pickup parked on the PL would be well enough situated. Then along the bog, found another stand, open enough woods. Finally across the PL, woods somewhat familiar tho changed. I can't get inconveniently long lost in Nottingcook, just briefly. Saw about six deer flashing their white tails in disappearing. Across the last dry land and back. The day became gray and windy. At one point, it was too hot under boat cover.