Sunday Feb 25 |
 | Trail run 1:06:00 [1] 6.0 mi (10:59 / mi) | |
| weight:147lbs shoes: Attack II |
| Purple (sort of) - 37, grey sun. "Plan was to" do the Purple Trail loop, but snow, or rather ice conditions caused a change. The dense snow of a while back remains and a bit of snow, inch or so, fell Friday to renew the cover. The new snow is nice, soft, provides good traction. The old snow, where the sun had gotten to it today, was soft enough and ok. The old snow that the sun or warmth had gotten to and then refrozen without any of the new snow was slick. This was in a few areas esp under the thick pines or hemlock stands. Of course, those bits were usually on the sides of hills for a threatened slide into whatever...a Wyatt type experience without the river. And of course we forgot our slip-on studs - duh!
Main woods road was ok but as soon as we tried the single track Purple trail we hit a very slick side hill. A guy and his dog were heading towards us. A good sign? No! They were bailing. He just had Bean boots and the dog, a husky type, looked ready to pull him off. So we also bailed and headed into nearby fields with nice fluffy covering of snow. Did the rest of the loop up to the final section of Horse Tr, again a section along the side of a steep hill in a hemlock stand. Always slick and today we barely started in. Headed up a long reentrant to the road instead.
Nice easy recovery run but we're both weary. Last week didn't provide the needed recooping. Think we'll take it more easy this week until NC. |
Saturday Feb 24 |
| Road run warm up/down 25:00 [1] | |
| ahr:110 weight:148lbs shoes: Salomon XA 2 |
| Springfield - 25, strong wind. Jog around to warm up, loosen up, check the snow conditions on the hills. The final down hill looked fine when we jogged up it. The start hill looked good from the bottom and all the other parts of the roads also looked good. So didn't go up the start hill.
Another jog around after to shake out the legs. Still, had a soreness in R calf when got home. Seems to have recovered. |
| Road run race (10k) 48:35 [4] 6.3 mi (7:43 / mi) vdot: 42.1 | |
| ahr:165 max:178 shoes: Salomon XA 2 |
| Snowstorm 10k - Started off ok and clean up the hill. Plowed to the gate but a mess beyond and the roads had lots of icy patches for the first mile or so. Felt ok and had good flow going but probably too hard as HR was in 170s much of this. May have just been the start reaction. Then settled into 165-168 range and seemed to get heavier as went along. 4th mile was brutal with strong wind up along by the grand stand and worse going by the toll booth, a real slog like hills. Rest was ok but spent by then. Last of the series and slowest by a min and a half, 2' slower than best.
Lyn was 48.05. She went by at about 4 mi and graduallygot further ahead. This was also her slowest and 2' off her best this year. |
Friday Feb 23 |
| Note | |
| weight:146lbs |
| Today the plan was to read the paper, have coffee sitting in the sun of the family room door, shovel the measly amount of snow in the latest disappointment of winter and go to the library for coffee and renewing book and investigating new ones, then sit in the sun and read a mag or two.
And that is what we did;-} |
Thursday Feb 22 |
| Strength warm up/down 15:00 [1] *** | |
| weight:148lbs shoes: VJ Pro 1 |
| Sessions - 40, grey, dense snow with good footing but some soft spots developing. Short jog around before. Longer jog around roads after.
Checked out what appeared to be gun cases set out in the back pavillion. They were open with a bunch of darts laid out but no guns. There were also two styrofoam deer, about 2' high. Then ran into Kate Moran who indicated that the Wildlife folks must be practicing their dart shooting to go after the female bears, to tag them ala Charlie's last year. I had run through the field by the pavillion about 30' before - sure glad they missed. |
| Orienteering 38:33 [3] *** 3.6 km (10:43 / km) | |
| spiked:9/10c shoes: VJ Pro 1 |
| Sessions, Brown course from last Nov - Nice fast running with great open woods. Snow makes everything really stand out. Good O mostly, though drifted R going to 4 and missed the big tree. Had stopped when it was about right, nothing, looked L and there it was about 50m off. Worst mistake was trying to go straight to 8 across the clearcut. Had done this last fall and found a reasonable route. Not today - got totally hung up in briars. Took 5.45 to do a 150m leg, arrgh. Think it's doable going slightly more R or going all way around even would be better. So now have all sorts of scratches and a bruised finger (?) from hitting something. And didn't get darted. |
Wednesday Feb 21 |
| Strength (nycb 2) 55:00 [1] | |
| weight:148lbs |
| Normal stuff but tiredly. |
Tuesday Feb 20 |
| Trail run long 2:20:00 [2] 10.5 mi (13:19 / mi) +300m 7:37 / km | |
| weight:149lbs shoes: Attack II |
| Penwood-Tarriffville Run - 40s, grey sun, snow remains solid and good footing except a couple slick spots where the sun melted it and then it refroze, and a few spots where the crust started to collapse, esp towards end. Mostly nice and solid.
Out on E road and Blue tr; back on W roads. Felt good, even towards end but then that was a nice long downhill making up for the many ups previously.
Of course, now that the bird count is over, they all come out of hiding: saw 4 hawks, a bluejay, 2 robins, couple ducks. Where were they yesterday? |
Monday Feb 19 |
| Note | |
| weight:149lbs (rest day) |
| MwM - on way back we stopped at Great Pond to count birds for the census. It was cold and windy but full, bright sun. Didn't see a single bird - not one! So went home where it was warm and counted birds hanging around the feeders. No wrens, but a pair or Cardinals. |
