Training Log Archive: bl

Event: NEOC: Nobscot Scout Reservation
 

BHS track late morning. Very windy from the NW - cool, dry, a world apart from Tuesday. Last was a 300 which got the HR to 140. Entered the Boulder Dash today - enough of ambivalence.

BHS at 9am, already on the warm side. A period of record temps, c. 90F today. Legs were flat, maybe from yesterday's weight w/o? Slowest times yet.
Stopped at a mirror-like Turee after.

GPS was far off at start. Not even in correct parking lot. Had Mocha - spent the first 25' walking her & picking up trash. Maybe 12 spaces in the lot corner where I parked, the furthest from the school. About 3 left when I left. Feel a bit like an intruder.

Kayak on the Merrimack with Beth. We started near the State Nursery, ending at Sewall's Falls parking. Temp got to high 80s, sunny/bright. In fact, there was a lot of sun. Some welcome shade on the east-west river bends and a mild southerly breeze at times. It was great for swimming which I did only once. At times we seemed to fly over river bottom with the favorable current. Lots of sandy bottom and, in some places, very high sand bluffs (excess of 50' est.) on the outside river curves. Eventually, there were quite a few people kayaking, swimming from shore etc. But it did get quiet again after the Rt. 4 bridge. Mostly is was very bucolic and quiet. Sewall's Falls caused an increase in heart rate at the very end with shallow, fast water over rocky bottom, with many rocks at the surface.

At one point, there were some 30 cows on the river bank. There was a river-side pasture that went on for maybe 3/4ths mile. I had to stop, climb the bank and survey this animal kingdom with its shade, spaciousness and smooth, green grass.

Quite a bit of car ferrying to make it happen. A reasonable upper body workout. A good day.

River webs