Weekly log 23-Dec to 29-Dec

It is official, I have created the blog. I had to go through many alterations trying to come up with a name no one else has.  Every time I thought I had a good one sorry, username already used – errrrrrr

Wednesday: 6

 

I decided to run from my house after laziness creep in me about going to my old high school (Chariho) and running (speed work) with the group.  I kick myself now, funny how that works.  I tried out my new sneaks along with my new space watch – both presents Santa left under the tree (I must-have did good with the honey-do-list).  34 degrees with a little wind, so I decided to go up to North Anguilla via the Croft Ct, Elmridge Road route.  I was surprised, as I have run these roads before; the traffic was very heavy for these country roads so I had to pay attention and stop looking at my space watch.  Felt good for taking off Tuesday, just little cold.

I'm now trying to find out how to show the Strava screen shot of this run on my blog ???? 



space watch (410)

GT-2000







 

Thursday: 0

I was going to run in Burlingame today but when I awoke and looked outside

I decided to use my boys new weight bench instead

 

 

 

 

 

 

We will try for a run tomorrow
 

Friday: 7

Went to Ninigret Park (Charlestown) with Johnny and Tom on a cold (25 degrees) with a slight wind December morning.  What a cool place to run – ok, I said cool – grew up in the 80’s.  Johnny did his best to represent Jeff – he had shorts on.  We began with a 3 mile warn up, and then Tom took us to the field to do 4 x 1000m (two laps around field) tempo runs.  First 1000m, first lap I was strong, then on the second I was sucking wind as it was hard running in the cold.  Probably because I skipped speed work at Chariho the other day.  I did improve on the other three.  Finished with cool down back to the parking lot.  Wished Johnny the best of luck on his Vision Quest of 3000 miles for 2012 - remember that movie Vision Quest (remember, 80’s child).  Good movie and a great sound track with the Red Rocker Sammy Hagar on it.

Saturday: 13 

Meet up with Jeff for a ride to Justin’s house in Ashaway (the town I grew up in). From there Justin drove us up Asheville Pond in Hopkinton.  Not really cold at first, but the last half (3 miles) did get a little chilly. Justin decided to treat Jeff and I by showing us 7 sisters – yup, peek my attention right away, until he explained the 7 sisters are ponds. Started in the dark on the most technical park of today running – the first 4 or so miles. This part had many rock climbs – see picture

 

 

 

After this technical park which was actually part of the Narragansett trail the run was enjoyable as we went on to parts of Yawgoog boys scout area until halfway through the run. I was coming to a little bridge over a swampy area and I tripped - left hand only went into the water. Guess what, left hand which is the hand I had on my new space watch – OMG, my wife (who gave me this for Christmas) is going to kill me – then Jeff and Justin.  As I started to panic, Jeff mentioned that it is water resistance – WHEW. I ran the next ½ mile or so looking at the space watch like a geek, making sure the numbers were clicking away – thanks to the folks at Garmin who thought of runners like me (water resistance). This trail run had the BEST views I have ever seen of this area, I really enjoyed the views of the 7 sisters, even though the bodies of these sisters were water.

Good run, good company, great trails, unbelievable views.

Link below is the map of were we ran

 

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