Training Log Archive: JanetT

Roads (19 min each way) to Saucon Trail to the second bridge across the Saucon Creek in Hellertown, partly to see how high the creek had gotten there (downstream from where it passes by my neighborhood). There was some erosion on the trail itself too, resulting in a couple of 6" deep gullies across the trail or piles of gravel making it feel like you were riding through sand. Low-mid 80s and mostly sunny (on the roads).

Event: World Masters Orienteering Championships 2020 CANCELLED (moved to 2023)
 

Easy walk before forecasted afternoon T-storms

Ann's Thursday gentle yoga class from yesterday...nice and easy after yesterday's O.

To start of Mocanaqua Adv 2 UsynligO course designed by Greg A. Forecast looked like morning showers at home, low 80s, and chance of showers later, but Mocanaqua had a better forecast of partly cloudy and mid 70s, so we went there.

Intended to start on Adv 2 and then switch to Score O after 6 and skip the SW loop, and decide when I got to 16 whether to skip the final 17-19 loop and go straight from 16-20. 16 was on a hillside of fairly high ferns disguising all the fallen trees underneath so by the time I battled my way through them after leaving 16, I decided I didn't need another loop through blueberries on top of the plateau to visit subtle boulders or spurs in unknown vegetation. I did 1-6 then trail to 11-16, out to trail and then in to 20-21-F. Two recently downed trees across trails, one that I crawled through, and the other I managed to get around.

I wore my Active Ankle last Sunday because my ankle has been getting a lot of use and gets sore by late summer with a lot of O and without support; I wore it again today but it was getting sore again by the time I decided to cut the course short.

Counting as non-spikes the hesitation to 6 (I should have stayed on the trail to the distinct trail junction), and approaching 14, thinking I was in the reentrant when I had to go a bit farther.

To #5 I was approaching from the southeast and hadn't even crossed the trail yet before the tune played. The cliff was beyond the trail, but I could see it from where the tune played so I just waved at it and continued on to #6. ;-)

Nice to visit different parts of this forest, and delighted to have the opportunity to use this course for training and not worry about visiting them all.

From finish to the car. Tired.

Saw a black swallowtail around the parking lot (last week it was tons of dragonflies) and a silver spotted skipper took a rest on my hat after I set it on top of the car. The trail along the cemetery has some meadow phlox in bloom (pinkish-purple five-petal flowers).

Hiking mostly bike trails on the east end of Star Village map (South Mountain in Bethlehem). Stopped a couple of times on the powerline because there were many butterflies on a plant that had purple blooms (edited: butterfly bush/buddleia).

One other person on trails, a woman hiking up a steep trail with her dog; no mammal sightings (other than the dog, and the woman); a few birds.

After TS Isaias left the area and the sun came out, we went out for a walk to see what was what. Low to mid 70s and mostly sunny, after 5-8" of rain reported in the area. (We'd had a storm 2 years ago that dropped 7" over two days and overran a few culverts, one of which that is two or so mikes away still hasn't been repaired.)

We stopped to chat with neighbors; I deleted any time that was level 0.

Storm basins in the community worked, for the most part, but after the overflow field and creek N of the community flooded, there was nowhere else for it to go. A couple of houses in the lower/northern part of the community, closer to the creek, had some water in garages that had flowed from the road which had nowhere to drain to. The creek 1/2 mi north was flowing across the road when we wandered up that way, and cars were turning around to find another route... It's nice that it moved quickly through and "only" dropped 5-8" here.

Reported possible tornado earlier today, about an hour south of here near Doylestown....

Bike trails at Nockamixon. Haycock and Eastern Woods (lower and upper, but I think I'll stick to lower). That was enough for today. Low 80s, lower humidity.

Event: DVOA French Creek State Park Central
 

Real orienteering! French Creek Central on a hot humid day. Cloudy and mid 70s when we started but very humid; we'd had a T-storm and downpour (2.5") at home this morning, but it seemed to have missed FC. Sunny and mid 80s at finish. Tons of sweat was pouring off my hat about halfway through...ewww. But such is summer orienteering in the eastern US.

Spiked pretty much all of them though for #2 I found the rocky ground above it before spotting the flag tucked in the blueberries. Someone else led me into 5 but I was heading right for it. Silly Go control.

Thank you to Wyatt, Mary, and company for the opportunity to actually race again. Motivation!

3.2 km nominal, 100m climb

Brown - Splits