Weekly Log 11-Apr to 17-Apr-2022: Easy Week into Newport Half

Monday:  0

First total rest day in over a month.  Felt good.

Tuesday:  2 walk, 1 run

AM:  Westerly, RI.  CCC.  Worked as part of a crew clearing the first trail at WLT's newest preserve, Cottrell Preserve.  Pretty but wet piece of property that could eventually connect to Whitely and Westerly Town Forest.

PM:  Westerly, RI.  Super short run with Brady at Wahaneeta.  Just squeezed this one in between finishing work and heading to Cranston to watch a presentation by Projo writer John Kostrzewa of "Walking RI", where he featured many different trails across RI.  Caught up with John briefly post-presentation.

Wednesday:  11

AM:  Westerly, RI.  Late morning 6-mile solo road run on a loop from Avondale to Watch Hill.  Inaugural run in 2nd pair of NB Rebel 2.  Felt great right out of the box!  Now if only they hold up longer than the last pair (285 miles).

PM:  Richmond, RI.  Trail run with Brady from parking lot at exit 4.  Out NST to Browning Mill Pond; back on Arcadia Trail.  Was quickly reminded how technical this section is!  Fun, but very warm at 65°.

Thursday:  5

Westerly, RI.  Early evening group run into Woody Hill before monthly WTAC board meeting.  Group of four.

Friday:  4 walk, 3 run

Westerly, RI.  Met up with WLT staff at 8am and walked, plotted, and flagged potential trail for southern portion of Cottrell Preserve.  Some neat features and erratics that we did our best to incorporate, while trying to avoid wet areas.

Westerly, RI.  Followed up the Cottrell plotting effort with a very short and slow run at Grills Preserve with Brady.  Funniest moment was after I opened the rear passenger door to let Brady out, I went to the back of my car to get something out, then seeing Brady out of the car, went to shut his door and found a Black Lab puppy in my back seat where Brady normally stays!  Turns out it belonged to a female biker that was in the Clivus unit.  It's all good; just an unexpected surprise!

Wore my Peregrine 12s for only the second time.  Uncomfortable, so may take a few runs to break them in and get used to it.  Time will tell.

Saturday:  15

Newport Half Marathon.  Write-up to follow.

Sunday:  10

Charlestown, RI.  Easter morning trail run with Brady at Burlingame.  Legs sore from yesterday's race, but just mildly.  Kept it slow and easy.

Weekly mileage:  45 run, 5 walk

Weekly synopsis:  A great week!  Planned lower mileage week, and that may have contributed to my successes on Saturday in the half-marathon.  Clamdigger 5K next weekend, and then three weeks to successive race (Mystic 10K on May 15; potentially Shad Bloom the day before).

Weekly highlight:  Newport Half Marathon!!  See my write-up shortly.

Weekly lowlight:  Nothing!