Sunday Dec 2 |
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| Event: Blue Hills Traverse
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Saturday Dec 1 |
 | Orienteering 2:11:00 [1] *** 5.84 km (22:26 / km) +160m 19:44 / km | |
| spiked:15/15c weight:148lbs shoes: Salomon XA 2 |
| 5 Ponds Permanent Course - 25, sunny, very windy. Winter's coming; still another nice day in the woods, and didn't even need Jim's encouragement.
We had received a report from a BS leader of some problems with this course, minor things like the markers not having numbers on them, or missing, or being on the ground and not sure which tree it should go on. So we took a hike through the course to check it out. What else to do on a nice sunny day but shiver in the woods. Someone seems to be maintaining the course as all the markers "on the ground" are now on trees, even fairly close to the correct feature. Except one that had us stumped a bit. Feature was "Top of Knoll". Pretty easy except there are two knolls in the circle with a trail running between. Which knoll is not mentioned (who did this clue sheet!?) but the circle seems to be centered on the eastern knoll. After checking all the trees on the E one, Lyn walked further down the trail to see if it might be on a really stray tree. Lo and behold she spotted it on the W knoll. Who would guess? So we moved it back. Perhaps we should update the map.
Haven't done this course for a long time. We went out here a few times when we were just starting this crazy O stuff. Found them all but didn't really know what we were doing. Took a long time and many Red courses to figure it out, well at least some of it. Still feel like we're just starting some times. |
Friday Nov 30 |
| Hiking 1:00:00 [1] *** | |
| weight:148lbs shoes: Salomon XA 2 |
| Sessions Woods - 35, sunny, nice day in the woods.
This was a combo day: a bit of a nice hike, some field checking to review sections of the map (every time out is another chance to see what's changed), and, oh yes, some orienteering to retrieve a stray control that someone was 100% sure to have already picked up. Still - any excuse to get out in the woods... |
| Strength 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Salomon XA 2 |
| A couple of hours of perhaps the last leaf rake effort of the season. There are only a few oak trees with leaves remaining and they may be the spring variety. Still the neighbors upwind have yards with lots of leaves, and in the street gutters as well. As we are down wind and just over a hill crest in sort of a lee, we can expect some importation of leaves to creep along.
Logged this as it was much more strenuous than the water exercise class yesterday. Not sure that was worth the effort. Just left a pervading smell of chlorine, yuck. |
Thursday Nov 29 |
| Water (Exercise class) 45:00 [1] | |
| weight:149lbs |
| At the local pool. A courtesy session to try it out. I joined about 9 older women in the class for a rather non-strenuous bit of bouncing forward, backward, side to side and more of the same in the deep end. I'll have to see if these will continues while the ham improves. Other than being cold (water was 81F supposedly), no real reaction though a little bit tired. |
Wednesday Nov 28 |
| Cycling (MtBk) 1:00:00  5.4 mi (11:06 / mi) +250m 6:02 / km | |
| weight:146lbs |
| Munnisunk Woods/Tobacco Flds - 40, sunny.
Nice ride but took a bit to get it going. Bike shifting is hesitant and sprayed some WD-40 into shifter which loosened it a bit. Wrong stuff but was handy. Did a ride similar to this back in May and as I recall was much more fluid, both riding and climbing. Quads were lacking today. Guess that's where the missing weight came from. Can sure tell when trying to go uphill.
Rode a bunch of little single tracks cut by dirt bikes through the woods, narrow, twisty, rutty, bumpy but haven't been ridden lately and the ruts and trail are hidden by leaves. So cautious that I didn't miss the track, which I did a few times. Fun. |
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| Must have aggravated the ham and bum yesterday climbing little ladder with insulation job or tire activity. Also L groin sore. Got to get back to training. These chores are as injurious to one's health as over-training. |
Tuesday Nov 27 |
| Strength 1:00 [0] | |
| weight:147lbs |
| Kind of a strength thing - Putting the snows on the car. It's strength because not only did I have to carry the 4 snow tires/wheels up from the basement and the summers back down, but holding the car up with one hand while undoing the lug nuts was a real effort. Also blowing the tires up from the resting state of 26.5 psig to spec level of 32 was hard on the lungs. Took a bit to find a straw that fit.
Later - installed more pipe insulation on the house pipes. Not being steams here, I could just use rubbery insulation that seems to hold the stick better. Misundermeasured and need to get 4 more lengths.
Boy - I can't wait until I heal and can go back to just ignoring the maintenance chores that interfere with training. |
Monday Nov 26 |
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| weight:147lbs (rest day) |
| MwM - Finished wrapping the steam pipes and determined that duct tape might be good for ducks but pretty useless on heat pipes, as is the self-sticking gu used on the insulation wrapper. Much of the T'day effort had come undone - both the self-stick and the duct tape to redo it. The metalized tape was holding though. Guess that's what you get with decades old ducks. |