Training Log Archive: Mr Wonderful

Great weather. Cooler and enough wind to keep the bugs away.

Went to lunch Tuesday and was the fattest in the group. :(

I think I was buzzed by bats!

Meeting in Northville => Maybury!!

http://www.mapmyrun.com/view_workout?w=1093850797

Such fun, not much straight.

Nice paddle with TR and Lucky 21 team.

I tipped Matt's canoe. RIP 305. :(

Approximate route, not sure about the turnaround.

C • Tizoc 5

I'm embarrassingly unfit. No mystery about why. Nice scenery and company. I will unabashedly abuse the mules at the next few races!

Approximate route

All trespassing was unintentional and can be attributed to a dearth of maps at the trailhead. Coast Guard park would be sweet o, even with the high trail density.

C • mules 4

Event: Summer Fury Sprint Race
 

Home inspection turned up no issues. Mission accomplished: Plymouth proper. Barring any disasters, by mid October, I should be about ~16 miles of this from work.



Which is good, because I'll need to burn off the desserts we can get with just a half mile walk:

C • That sounds terrific. The 1... 5

Just fast enough to keep the mosquitoes away

Raking seems like good AR training. It's repetitive, sweaty, and I was assaulted by bugs.

Sort of a "welcome back to running".

Felt right at home in w4j's new boat, which \appears to be the same model as mine.

Kept it easy and did a lake paddle across Kensington up to the originally intended put in.

Wore out poor puppy #2. Somewhat muggy. Errands complete.

I have looked at every conceivable house, and may conceivable sports cars, so I decided to be productive and get some Epic training in.

Green was 69:52, so I'm off by ~5-7 minutes - not a surprise given my spring and summer thus far. Hopefully I can sharpen up a bit - mostly I think I need more gravel grinding because I think I lost the time doing ~15 mph on the flats instead of 18+ needed to set a good lap.

Spring Mill lot was FULL!

Currently 0 for 5 on houses.

#1 - odd musty smell and weirdness and missing garage and missing a/c took away all points for exterior character
#2 - Everything was great! Except the price was high and the basement must take on water from time to time
#3 - The weirdness of a house not much bigger than our current house formerly being a THREE unit rental coupled with a spectacular view of the much nicer condos behind it...meh
#4 - I thought we could get into a slightly beat up house...but my word. I don't know how they managed to quite trash that place in the way they did. The selling realtor had thoughtfully left a renovation estimate of just $150k to tack onto the purchase price. It's still easy to get equity free six figure loans, rightt?

#5 - Kimberly fell in love, but I voted no thanks because of the cat currently living there. Can't much ride a bike to work if you wake up wheezy for the next five years.

Kicking myself for not applying myself the last 14 years at FoMoCo so I could be in the next salary grade and we could just get a nice no issues place in whatever location. Not sure how much longer we pursue Location #1 before retreating back to something else, like giving up and heading to Brighton to minimize 2/3rds of the family's commute and screwing 1/3rd.

C • Problem 6

I did mow and walk the dog >1.5 miles.

C • Poor Dog 1