Training Log Archive: Wyatt

5x1:30 or so, on most flat trails (VF canyon), with Angelica. Best started downhill for ~10 sec's then flat and maintained speed well - GPS pace of 3:14/km (78.5 sec. lap pace)

East Chesterbrook random-O' with Vadim

From Phoenixville to Oaks and partway to Collegeville where I met Angelica, Danielle and Luis(?) for the end of their run back to Oaks, and then I went back to Phoenixville. The Schuylkill Canal trail South of 29 (not the road but the trail on the river side of the canal) is apparently no longer maintained, or at least not for a month or so. No less than 5 trees were down requiring the run to stop and me to pick my way through the branches (other options were dark green with poison ivy, or swimming in the stagnant water of the canal...). And the cascade (50x10m man-made stone-slab slope to drain canal overflow) which is normally wet and requires picking your way across the stones had the addition challenge of a meter deep layer of some vegetation, which I chopped my way through with a stick... no recent tracks there...

A loop along the edge and out along some minor trails from a city park in Great Valley corporate center area. Could make a reasonable White/Sprint map. A bit small but at least that maps it easy to map.

Test run and apparently I'm healthy just fine today. As usual, the 2nd run of the day didn't materialize.

Malaise, GI issues, didn't respond to simply trying to have a normal morning, so took two 1-2 hour naps, and was more or less fine by evening, definitely fine by next day. Heard of someone in CA with same symptoms on Monday. Odd, but quick at least. No training though.

Great Valley nature center a loop around the horseshoe trail and a loop on a paved road. Not great running location - the HS trail, when a trail, is pretty overgrown for shorts, and >50% of the run was on roads which rarely had a runnable shoulder.

Easy loop around Chesterbrook with only a few steep bits. Knee better than anytime in the last few days - less limp, no pain that I'd notice if I weren't paying close attention to it. The new housing around Summerhill seems to have stopped construction after the forest clearing & lot-levelling process. Weeds are growing high...