Tuesday Jul 15 |
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| (sick) |
| Didn't get around to a run today, though early AM would have been a fine choice. Took the kids to the Old State House in Hartford, afterwards walked around on Constitution Plaza and over the Riverfront Recapture area that I've never been on. Although it would be a very linear thing, it would be really cool to do a sprint on the plaza(s), down along the river and up to the North Meadows where NEOC has a rudimentary map with lots of nettles. Or a Hartford metrogaine would be pretty cool too.
Off to New Hampshire tomorrow for a couple days, passing through Northampton MA for breakfast and a gander at Rob's Titan which is a sibling to our crowd here at UConn.
Then up past the lovely village of Sunderland and on up to the White Mountains. Bringing my running gear, but if past years are any indication, probably won't do much if any running. |
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Monday Jul 14 |
| Road Run (from Dougs) 11:57 [3]2.3 km (5:12 / km) | |
| (sick) shoes: Adidas Response Trail 14 |
| Road run in the rain after dropping car off at Dougs for service. |
| Trail Run - Long / Easy (Campbells Peaceful) 11:23 [3]1.6 km (7:07 / km) | |
| (sick) shoes: Adidas Response Trail 14 |
| Trail run in the rain after dropping car off at Dougs. Trail section sandwiched between road sections. Glasses useless and trail pretty rocky so a fairly slow pace to ensure no faceplanting. At one point I missed a turn and drifted off the top of the ridge and had to follow off trail on a wet slope below a long 3m cliff - even slower than slow... |
| Road Run (from Dougs) 11:20 [3]1.85 km (6:08 / km) | |
| (sick) shoes: Adidas Response Trail 14 |
| and then the rest of the rainy road run home... |
| Hiking (Dougs) 40:00 [1] | |
| (sick) shoes: Puma Sierra Trail Racers |
| Legs didn't feel like running, so I just walked back to Dougs to get the car - brisk walk on 140.... |
Sunday Jul 13 |
| Fieldwork (Cross Farns) 17:00 [1]1 km (17:00 / km) | |
| (sick) |
| Was just going to go for a run over at Cross Farms this AM, but the GPS had a very good signal lock under trees (2-3m) so I took a casual stroll on one section of trail to get a rough track and wall/marsh/trail crossing points for referencing back to the base. |
| Trail Run - Long / Easy (Cross Farms) 30:27  3.6 km (8:28 / km) | |
| (sick) shoes: Puma Sierra Trail Racers |
| After walking the first section of trail, I saved the track, then ran easy for a while on some more of the same trail. Its blazed in the woods, but in a number of areas is very vague on the ground and occasionally the blazes are not close enough to be obvious which way to go, so a couple of spots involved standing near the last blaze and scanning the woods for another blaze (orange paint spots) before proceeding.
After finishing that section of trail I ran back to the car via the 'back 9' of the disk golf course - sprinting tee to hole, then a very short jog to the next tee and repeat. The disk golf course goes through the woods but from tee to hole the woods are laced with small trails and I've been trying to figure out how to best map these areas. I think I will map the 'fairways' as rough open w/ trees as they are definitely more "open" in appearance and ground disturbance than regular white woods and would be obvious if crossing them at an angle - leafy forest floor versus heavily trafficked forest floor. We'll try it that way and see how the map legibility goes... |
Saturday Jul 12 |
| Trail Run - Long / Easy (Bald Mtn) 1:02:01 [3]10.5 km (5:54 / km) | |
| (sick) shoes: Adidas Response Trail 14 |
| Get out the door and do something was the goal for today. So out the door I went. Up to the forest to see who else was around, not many. A couple of recovering knee replacements walking, and Willi doing a run/walk rehab as well. None of the regular runners in attendance today so I just headed north on the dirt road and headed up into the basemap area east of Bald Mountain. Decided on roughly an hour and the first 10 minutes were tough, but things loosened up after that, but I could tell that the energy level/pace would decline as I went, so I turned around at 28 minutes and headed back. No big hills, no running fast - just an easy run on a very fine morning. |
| Bike - 'bent (Lake & back) 30:00 [1]6.5 km (4:37 / km) | |
| shoes: Adidas Response Trail 14 |
| nice casual ride to the lake with Hayden. Nice temps, lightly overcast - hung out by the lake bridge for a bit before coming back. Estimated riding time. |