Friday May 2 |
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| Day off, planning to do some mapping, but Hayden came down sick so I stayed home with him instead. Got a bit of drafting done on some unfinished field notes, so not a total loss. Working the weekend though, so not likely to get back out in the woods until next week. But hope to get quite a bit of work done in the next couple of weeks. |
Wednesday Apr 30 |
| Road Run 20:00 [3] 4 km (5:00 / km) +50m 4:42 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| pre-dawn run up to Crystal Lake to retrieve the van from the shop. Kind of a pain as I was also carrying a bag of work clothes so I could shower and change when I got to work.. |
Tuesday Apr 29 |
| Bike - 'bent (commute) 1:00:00 [3] 18.8 km (3:11 / km) +300m 2:57 / km | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| rainy commute... van still in the shop... |
| Bike - 'bent (commute) 1:00:00 [3] 18.8 km (3:11 / km) +300m 2:57 / km | |
| shoes: Slipstream |
| An hour of pelting, wind driven rain at 45F, streams washing debris down the shoulders. The true defintion of good times...
Got home and fired up the pellet stove - may bring the bike in to dry it off by the stove too.... |
Monday Apr 28 |
| Bike - Road (commute - abort) 5:00 [1] | |
| shoes: Cannondale ST1000 |
| Car in the shop, had set up the cannondale to commute. Got the lights running as it was pretty gloomy out. got down to the end of the road and applied the brakes and slid right through the intersection. Of course I set the bike up on a nice day and totally forgot that the rim brakes on this bike totally suck when wet. Talked myself out of persevering and turned around and headed home. Will go in late and have Ellen drop me off instead.
Will transfer the lights etc back over to the bent and commute on that instead as it has solid disk brakes on it. But not today... |
Sunday Apr 27 |
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| NEOC - Hurd? |
| Hiking 1:10:00 [1] 4 km (17:30 / km) +50m 16:28 / km | |
| shoes: Salomon TR2 |
| Left the house to head down to Hurd for some orienteering and perhaps some geocaching. Stopped at Dunkin Donuts in town, but coming out the van wouldn't start. No starter, no solenoid, no diddly. Walked over to the Citgo to see about a jump, called AAA, they approved it, service guy couldn't jump it either. Then I noticed a smaller gauge wire floating in limbo behind the battery and disappearing through the firewall. Was resting on battery tray. Picked it up but couldn't figure out where it had come from, but isolated it from ground and tried to start - bingo. Not sure what it was for, but if grounded the electrical system was DOA. Drove the van immediately to our service guy at Crystal Lake, did not pass go, did not collect $200.
Then the boys and I commenced to walk home from there, but the traffic on 140 was life threatening, so we opted to go cross country (hey, I had my compass, didn't I?). Had to negotiate a few marshes, but a pleasant cross country stroll, coming out by the power lines across the street.
Bummed that we didn't get to Hurd though. Probably just as well as I stayed up too late reading and checking in on CSU 10mila team from time to time (regular results, didn't opt for the video feed) |