Training Log Archive: danfoster

Another glorious spring day (that's two for the entire year so far) with everyone out on the trails. Jess found an entire tree to gnaw on when we stopped to watch the swans at Apple Point.

Spent the first 30 minutes riding in loops close to home, waiting for the latest attempt at a sidewall patch to fail. It still has a pinhole leak that the sealant isn't addressing. But, it's holding *most* of the air, so we rode the usual loop, and then, feeling over-confident, rode most of it again in reverse.

Yesterday's sidewall puncture eventually sealed itself and held air all night. What better way to celebrate than by heading out in the dark at 5AM?

It blew out again about a mile into the woods, about the same time my helmet light started switching off intermittently. With four stops for air, several stops to retrieve Jess, and a fair amount of hike-a-bike, we eventually all made it home before the rain started.

Leisurely lap around the pond loop to ease my sore L knee back into riding. Made it most of the way around before a loose stick speared the rear tire's sidewall. Limped home with only two stops to add air.

A fine day for testing foul-weather gear. OR Helium II has now tested sleet-proof and falling-tree-limb-proof.

Hilly, chilly red course at Nobscot. Spitting snow and sleet. Struggled with the first control on a vegetation boundary that has filled in since the map was drawn. Rest of the course went well navigationally, except the part where I ran out of the looped section of the course on the wrong leg and went from 12 to 17 instead of 13.