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Wednesday Dec 16, 2009 #
speed golf 48:58 [3] 4.79 mi (10:13 / mi)
ahr:136 max:153 rhr:52 weight:143lbs shoes: mudclaw 270
Had a hard time figuring out where to run today. About 30F outside and a brisk wind out of the NW. I didn't want to run on the treadmill because I figured it was time I started getting used to running outside when it was a little cold but still not bad. And there's some snow on the ground, looks reasonably unpleasant to run on. I had to go to Hadley anyway (next town south), so I thought I'd go check the trails on the south side of the Holyoke Range, maybe they would be mostly bare.
But they weren't, still a bunch of snow/ice, also a bunch of footprints which reminded me it was still hunting season. So I went to plan B, a round at a nearby golf course. No hunters there, though there were lots of deer tracks.
Cold, windy, especially windy since I was mostly out in the open. But it's really not bad, you get used to it pretty quickly, and then it almost is better, makes you feel virtuous for getting out. Maybe 3 or 4 inches of crusty snow, the footing was good and bad, good in the sense that you sank in an inch or two and sure weren't going to slip, bad in the sense that you sank in an inch or two and it was harder work and slower. But harder work is probably what I need.
So a useful session. And no complaining from various body parts that were complaining a couple of days ago. Route.
But they weren't, still a bunch of snow/ice, also a bunch of footprints which reminded me it was still hunting season. So I went to plan B, a round at a nearby golf course. No hunters there, though there were lots of deer tracks.
Cold, windy, especially windy since I was mostly out in the open. But it's really not bad, you get used to it pretty quickly, and then it almost is better, makes you feel virtuous for getting out. Maybe 3 or 4 inches of crusty snow, the footing was good and bad, good in the sense that you sank in an inch or two and sure weren't going to slip, bad in the sense that you sank in an inch or two and it was harder work and slower. But harder work is probably what I need.
So a useful session. And no complaining from various body parts that were complaining a couple of days ago. Route.
Note
Time to start some serious studying for the upcoming season. Lots of new laws, as usual it seems in recent years. Some old ones expired. Some old expired ones have come back. Hard to believe all this is put together by supposedly intelligent human beings.
But it is what it is. And some of the changes may be particularly nice to folks with kids in college, or folks making their homes more energy efficient, or low-income folks, or folks buying electric vehicles, just to name a few examples.
I wonder if I will ever own an electric vehicle. And I don't mean a golf cart. Are they really more energy efficient and/or better for the environment?
But it is what it is. And some of the changes may be particularly nice to folks with kids in college, or folks making their homes more energy efficient, or low-income folks, or folks buying electric vehicles, just to name a few examples.
I wonder if I will ever own an electric vehicle. And I don't mean a golf cart. Are they really more energy efficient and/or better for the environment?