Training Log Archive: bl

Out the back on waxless. Went the way trees would allow but generally toward BBR. The swamp between me & the contours kept taking me left. Finally, saw what at first appeared to be a clearing but it was that and BBR itself. Paralleled BBR but any way thru never looked promising. Backtracked some & then, in a hole in trees, could see the contour hill. Got to the base, along, by the boulder and finally to the old trail Beth & I once used, now overgrown with small pines. Then back toward the house on sense of direction - no sun to speak of & no landmarks any more. Came out more to L than I thought I would. Recalled the time we got lost out back 12/31/07 - think it was, NYE anyway. GPS battery too low to use.

Also went to Stoneybrook Bog with Mocha this morning. She was quite bouncy (15y5m) given fresh air woods and ready supply of top-of-line treats.

Y after work. Record-breaking cold spell kind of wx tho one could be in the woods OK enough. After seeing a NHPBS program on Christmas Day bird watching, we were feeling pretty badly for the birds, squirrels, deer etc that have to make do on these sub-0 nights. There were several small birds (junkos?) in a bush just outside the window at dawn doing just that. Hardly the stuff of a mid-summer night's dream.

Y work out after work. Around 0F this morning! Whimpy-ness may have crept into my being, for the time being.

Turned shoveling into training. Maybe 4" but did walks, hauled wood and tended to roof ice dams, getting some cardiac feedback. Didn't feel like driving to town after returning from Burlington and faced with a house much in need of picking up.

With Nate & Janelle at Janelle's workplace gym.

Token walk with Jenn looking at 6 game cameras for photos of Sky. Cold, gray and interesting vistas by the lake. No dog, a needle in a hay stack pursuit, already a month old.

End of day on Champlain