Training Log Archive: Nadim

Event: Bethesda Turkey Chase
 

For Thanksgiving this year, several of us sought to do something other than the Turkey Chase. Ted Good, David Onkst and I started running up the Rachel Carson Trail from Rte. 29, while Peggy, Heidi Onkst, and Darcy Good hiked up the Northwest Branch Trail which is on the other side of the creek. David had run +20 miles the night before and fell back a few time--it turned out that he'd fallen more than once. The lower parts of the Rachel Carson Trail does have poor footing and some rocky spots. Ted and talked as we ran. Ted remembered the area from his high school days but he hadn't run the trail then. David turned back down the trail we'd come up while Ted and I crossed the creek after 3.5 miles and returned on the Northwest Branch Trail. The Northwest Branch Trail is much easier and we were going downstream. We noted a trail relocation being constructed up off the valley like much of the Rachel Carson Trail is. We ran into our wives as they were admiring dogs that were being walked. We spotted David as we were near finished.

Afterward we did do the usual thing, going to eat a bagel brunch. Peggy and I hosted a Thanksgiving dinner afterward---it was a rather nice day! I was pretty tired by the end of it.

From Northfield Rd., to the Bethesda Metro Station.

From the Bethesda Metro Station to Northfield Rd.

From Northfield Rd., Bethesda, MD, to 13th & C St. SW, Washington, D.C. It was forecast to be a nice day. I and a lot of other cyclists took advantage of it. I felt fairly weak.

From 13th & C St. SW, Washington, D.C. to Northfield Rd., Bethesda, MD. I cruised along in the dark with my big headlamp and passed a bunch of people. A few passed me and I kept up with them going up the hill after the trestle bridge, but I lost contact at the bridge near the sewage treatment plan. I had dressed appropriately both this morning and this evening.

From Northfield Rd., to the Bethesda Metro Station.

From the Bethesda Metro Station, Woodmont Ave. to Wisconsin Ave. to Norwood Ave. and Norwood Park, to the Capital Crescent Trail, to the Bethesda Metro Station. I lumbered through this, a bit sleep deprived but it was nice to run.

From the Bethesda Metro Station to Northfield Rd.

Event: [Cancelled] QOC Little Bennett
 

Starting from Riffleford Rd., I updated the map some more and then checked a few control locations. Things looked good though I had to make more map updates than planned for. I jogged around between control sites and actually found that a trail I'd found earlier was an official new one. I'm not sure where it goes but it did have a mile marker indicating 5.6 more miles of it off the map, going somewhere--potentially a connection to the Muddy Branch Trail. It was dark by the time I got in my van.