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Wednesday Oct 8, 2014 #
12 PM
Run ((orienteering)) 36:00 [3] *** 3.7 km (9:44 / km) +100m 8:34 / km
spiked:7/8c
Went for a run at Pawtuckaway (for my fellow countrypeople who probably haven't heard of it, it's in southern New Hampshire and was used for a World Cup race in 1992) around the middle of the day. This area has a very high reputation and with good reason - it's highly technically challenging, but is also pleasant to run on - generally open deciduous forest (starting to generate enough fallen leaves to obliterate the MTB track that isn't on the old map), although with quite a bit of rock underfoot. No doubt there are other sections which aren't quite as open.
Took a while to get my terrain legs in the generally soft ground and wasn't pushing it too hard, but flowing quite well by the end. Navigating reasonably well. Definitely glad I went out - perhaps not quite as magic as Harriman but still an area well worth going a long way to run on.
The rest of the day was devoted to going further north in New England, seeing quite a bit of the White Mountains and lots of colourful forests (and the people at the weather museum in North Conway run by the Mount Washington Observatory people were friendly even when I told them I was partly responsible for Mount Washington losing its world record for highest wind gust). It's also election season (particularly visible in New Hampshire, which has a highly competitive Senate race this year), and there was a bit of a blast from the past to see numerous "Re-Elect Reagan: The Tax Fighter" signs.
(When WOC 1993 was going on, the countryside was liberally dotted with "Re-Elect Grant" signs. We souvenired one but I'm not sure whether or not Frogga still has it).
Took a while to get my terrain legs in the generally soft ground and wasn't pushing it too hard, but flowing quite well by the end. Navigating reasonably well. Definitely glad I went out - perhaps not quite as magic as Harriman but still an area well worth going a long way to run on.
The rest of the day was devoted to going further north in New England, seeing quite a bit of the White Mountains and lots of colourful forests (and the people at the weather museum in North Conway run by the Mount Washington Observatory people were friendly even when I told them I was partly responsible for Mount Washington losing its world record for highest wind gust). It's also election season (particularly visible in New Hampshire, which has a highly competitive Senate race this year), and there was a bit of a blast from the past to see numerous "Re-Elect Reagan: The Tax Fighter" signs.
(When WOC 1993 was going on, the countryside was liberally dotted with "Re-Elect Grant" signs. We souvenired one but I'm not sure whether or not Frogga still has it).