Friday Jul 6 |
 | Mixed Run (Chasing Hayden) 10:00 [1] | |
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| Took Hayden over to Parker to ride his bike in the empty lot there. After a while we decided to go ride over to Crandalls on the bike path. As he took off on the downhill paved path, I had to give chase to keep him in sight. Did this a few times so probably 10 minutes or so of running total. |
Thursday Jul 5 |
| Trail Run - Long / Easy (Random Trails) 43:57 [3]7.1 km (6:11 / km) +135m 5:39 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| Thick, humid morning. Decided to try some of the old trails behind the house. Found even more trees cut down over trails, gates, no trespassing signs - sigh... used to be nice to just run out my backdoor - now its just a PITA....
AOWN - started out passing by the goat barn to feed owen some old hot dog rolls (WCOC picnic leftovers) and counted 7 rabbits in the backyard - all shapes and sizes (ok, all sizes, they're pretty much all the same shape). I'm never quite sure how many are really out there as they all disappear to different places and I know there are more than I ever see at one time. Then into the barn to find a bunch of sparrows just off the nest - fluttering about but not really flying yet. Then of course one big white goat.... Then into the woods and 3 separate encounters with deer - second one was a mother and fawn just staring at me from about 6-7m off the trail - I talked to them a few, then continued on...
Quite a few FDF's on the run back on SLR, dealt with them the old fashioned way - at least 12 kills, none of them landed a bite. Ran out of gas toward the end of the dirt road and walked most of the last mile or so home on pavement... Not inspiring, but I got out the door... |
Wednesday Jul 4 |
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| A minor touch of ITBS on the left knee this AM. Didn't really push anything yesterday while riding. Perhaps just tight from lack of riding. Will do some stretches on/off during the day... |
| Stretching (ITBS) 8:00 [0] | |
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| total time spent stretching out the ITB a different points in the day. |
Tuesday Jul 3 |
| Bike - 'bent (Ellington / Valley Falls) 1:30:00 [3]34.5 km (2:37 / km) +350m 2:29 / km | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| AM Ride - dirt portion of SLR really nasty now that they have 'fixed' it - its worse than before the grading, even 3 weeks later. So I opted to head down off the ridge into Ellington, stopping by DD for bagel sandwich and a dew. Cruised up to the Rockville Spur trail, rode for a while, then found a nice bench to sit and eat my breakfast. Continued on, then swung east over by Valley Falls, then back past Walker Reservoir and home via SLR - crappy dirt road and all... Nice morning to ride - need to force myself out to ride every day.... Only a month until Pan Mass... |
| Hiking (Shafran) 45:00 [1]3 km (15:00 / km) +50m 13:51 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| Early afternoon geocache hike with Ellen and the boys. Found all three. |
Monday Jul 2 |
| Hiking (Wolf Rock) 1:00:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| A series of 6 geocaches with Ellen and the kids. Found 4 of the 6. Nice afternoon, the Wolf Rock preserve would make awesome orienteering terrain - nice open woods with interesting rolling terrain features and lots of glacial erratics. Too bad its only 86 acres or so.... |