Raspberry and kholrabi time

Running:
My running this past week was again on the lighter side. Just continuing to put in a few miles with no real urgency to any of the training.

Monday I had originally planned to do a cross training day, but when I got to the workout room both the elliptical and the bikes were in use. Since it was such a nice day I just went for an easy 4 miles without the watch to warm up instead. I then did some lifting and stretching for the rest of the time. Tuesday through Friday I ran the same 5 mile route from work when I could get away from my desk. It was kind of a crazy week and I had to take the opportunity when I could. I got out anywhere between noon and almost 4:00. Tuesday I did the run in 37:09, Wednesday was 40:03, Thursday was 39.05, and Friday was 37:39. Saturday I got out fairly early and ran 10.5 miles in 1:28:32. Sunday I got out after the first round of storms and finished just before round two started. I ran 9.5 miles in 1:19:10. No hills this week, no real fast runs, and no long runs. It looks like my streak of 200+ mile months is about to end. With no long races for a while June is as good as any for a little bit of a cut back. So totals through Sunday 6/27.
WTD 44
 MTD 158
 YTD 1323
 ODO 26489

Hunting:
Here are a couple of links hunting related I thought were interesting. The first link is some discussion on what is a proper maximum distance to take a bow shot at deer. I tend to agree with the blogger although my personal limit is probably closer to 25 yards. The second link is to an ingenious way to carry real rattling horns. If any of you have done this it really is a pain to carry real horns. They always seem to be in the way and clunking together as you walk to your stand.  This design looks good to make them easy to carry. I will be attempting to do this with the pair I use.

Gardening:

Raspberry season is here. First a handful, then a pint, then a couple, then quarts until they peak. Right now I can pick several quarts of berries every day. I don’t have a real big area, but I have more than enough for me, neighbors, friends, and coworkers. The mosquitoes are really bad this year. Picking berries in the evening I don’t ever remember them being this bad.  The other thing I started to harvest is kohlrabi. I think this is my favorite vegetable. From now until frost I will have a bag of cut up kohlrabi in my lunch every day.  This past weekend I started trimming my large blue spruce around the yard. I also got my chain saw working and cut down a large leaning scrub tree that was creeping ever farther into the yard. I also used it to cut some of the lower limbs off some maples to lift the crown a bit. Sure have a huge pile of limbs and brush to burn next winter.