Old Dirt Road
Aug. 12th, 2021 06:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenHey, I haven't posted in ages! What's going on here?
Nothing, really. The sad fact is that it's been mostly a lot of same old same old. Fox and I were talking about it recently, and summer here often feels like cabin fever, or the same cooped up nervousness people get when they're snowed in. We can go outside and do stuff, but it's usually too hot to do so comfortably so we feel stuck in the house.
We get some mental relief by getting out and running. With work, Fox has to schedule his runs around whatever he needs to be doing, but I can get out early and run before the heat is too awful. Most days I'm out by 6:30 or 7. I'm getting much more heat acclimated than I've ever been, though I still wouldn't want to try to run at midday in summer, it will seem marvelous running outside this fall and winter.
Today I had a long run scheduled - I'm training by time now and I needed to run for one hour and forty-five minutes, and I ended up covering about nine miles. Being that the training plan has me running long on a weekday, I'd gone up SR21 a few times but holy shit is that scary. Between homicidal drivers and people with aggro pit bulls and no fence, long runs can be stressful as hell. (Why does everyone around here have pits or pit mixes? What the hell y'all.) Fox and I scoped out running routes on AllTrails since we'll be needing to run the virtual Boston Half next month, and so today I decided to visit Magnolia Lake, which is now owned by Camp Blanding - In depth article on it right here. Long story short, it was the Black counterpart of Gold Head Branch. After integration, the state sold it to Blanding. It's still out there - the boat launch and some picnic structures, but mainly there's a lot of trail. The Florida Trail goes through there, but I ended up following the military roads because part of the FT was underwater.
There's also a way to go in the "back door" of Gold Head but it looks like you might have to go down a private road to do it, so it's worth scoping out in advance.
We've had the tractor in the shop for ages for a problem with the hydraulics, and they're finally finished with it, so we get to go pick it up tomorrow. Just in time for "Fred" to dump rain on us - and here I was about to mow the grass again. If it doesn't rain too much I may do it anyway just to keep it from being head-high.
I'll try to start updating this more often - sorry about that. I just didn't have much to say and kept thinking I'd post when something interesting or amusing happened. LOL
Nothing, really. The sad fact is that it's been mostly a lot of same old same old. Fox and I were talking about it recently, and summer here often feels like cabin fever, or the same cooped up nervousness people get when they're snowed in. We can go outside and do stuff, but it's usually too hot to do so comfortably so we feel stuck in the house.
We get some mental relief by getting out and running. With work, Fox has to schedule his runs around whatever he needs to be doing, but I can get out early and run before the heat is too awful. Most days I'm out by 6:30 or 7. I'm getting much more heat acclimated than I've ever been, though I still wouldn't want to try to run at midday in summer, it will seem marvelous running outside this fall and winter.
Today I had a long run scheduled - I'm training by time now and I needed to run for one hour and forty-five minutes, and I ended up covering about nine miles. Being that the training plan has me running long on a weekday, I'd gone up SR21 a few times but holy shit is that scary. Between homicidal drivers and people with aggro pit bulls and no fence, long runs can be stressful as hell. (Why does everyone around here have pits or pit mixes? What the hell y'all.) Fox and I scoped out running routes on AllTrails since we'll be needing to run the virtual Boston Half next month, and so today I decided to visit Magnolia Lake, which is now owned by Camp Blanding - In depth article on it right here. Long story short, it was the Black counterpart of Gold Head Branch. After integration, the state sold it to Blanding. It's still out there - the boat launch and some picnic structures, but mainly there's a lot of trail. The Florida Trail goes through there, but I ended up following the military roads because part of the FT was underwater.
There's also a way to go in the "back door" of Gold Head but it looks like you might have to go down a private road to do it, so it's worth scoping out in advance.
We've had the tractor in the shop for ages for a problem with the hydraulics, and they're finally finished with it, so we get to go pick it up tomorrow. Just in time for "Fred" to dump rain on us - and here I was about to mow the grass again. If it doesn't rain too much I may do it anyway just to keep it from being head-high.
I'll try to start updating this more often - sorry about that. I just didn't have much to say and kept thinking I'd post when something interesting or amusing happened. LOL
