Training Log Archive: JanetT

Event: 30 Years of Pond Mt
 

To start of courses at Pond Mountain, after catching up with some of the old timers of WCOC and HVO. ;-)

Finally, a nice fall running day, low 60s and cloudy. Some breeze made me consider a long sleeve shirt but I'm glad I went with short sleeves.

NRE Brown course, 4.0 km, 150m climb starting from NW of Fuller Pond, on the part of the map where the team trials were held a few years back.

Clean "run" (though there wasn't much of that except downhills near the end), except for being a bit off/unsure to the boulders at 4 and 7. Third overall, behind Phil H-T at about 65 min, and Paul Bisset, less than a minute ahead.

I really liked the 1:7500 map too. :-) Thanks to all the WCOC folks in charge--George and Lyn, Susan and Rick doing results, Jim H and Rich N at start. And to Niels L-O, too, for the course.

Saw Glen go by while I was still headed to 1, then no one to 2 or on the long leg to 3, but arrived at 3 with two other runners (kissy and Clint, on the green course; it was their #5) coming from another direction. From 8 on in we were on the same route (Kris caught up at/after 8 but we took slightly different routes to 9 and I stayed just ahead until the end).

One of my better ones.

C • Good job! 3

Brown - Splits

Shoulder was feeling relatively better yesterday after PT but I might have slept on it wrong and it's feeling very aggravated and swollen this morning. We'll see. Need to remember to do my exercises over the weekend.

Focus: hips

Some more intense than usual things thrown in so I rated this a 2.

Second PT session.

Tried to do a trail run but was forced to walk quite a few times by my fear of slipping/falling in the mud on trails at the west end of Nockamixon State Park. A bit of exploring mapped (and unmapped) trails. Started from the parking area near the Sterner Mill and went out the High Bridge trail, crossing to the other side of the waterway (Tohickon Creek) there. Followed various trails close to the water, as far as the narrow point adjacent to the old quarry--which I never saw, but I did see some water where it had been. Other sightings of interest:

o A rope swing hanging near the top of a cliff
o Scared a great blue heron enough to make it squawk(!)
o Noted a concrete foundation with a staircase at each end along the Quarry Trail. (Where my track backtracks a bit)
o Three deer

Not much else in the way of birds or wildlife, though. Overcast, about 68F.

PT evaluation and some stretching for left shoulder. Weak back muscles are contributing to it.

Focus: stress/breathing

Event: EMPO - Pleasant Valley Farms
 

On my feet for 2.5 hours looking at quilts (and vendors) at the PA National Quilt Expo in Oaks PA (Mancuso show; I was here last Sept too, selling raffle tickets for my guild).

One interesting exhibit had warning signs and was titled Threads of Resistance (there was at least one nude). Interesting statement quilts.