Training Log Archive: JanetT

Flu shot today. Left shoulder a bit sore. We'll see how yoga goes tomorrow.
:-D

C • Flu shot 5

Perkiomen Trail at Green Lane, while Glen rode mtb trails. Upper 70s and a bit humid, so I enjoyed the breeze from doing the rail trail rather than working up a sweat on mtb trails. :-)

Event: DVOA Quail Hill Scout Camp
 

Interesting to note that public two-seater restrooms were open in Wawa in PA but not NJ. (Wawa is convenience store chain.) They've installed door openers that let you use an arm rather than your hand-after-you've-washed-up. I couldn't find a photo but they're regular D shaped handles with an extension on top for using your arm. My only concern is if someone else is trying to push the door to get in while you have your arm in the handle...

Quail Hill in NJ. Not my best outing, but I don't do well in crappy vegetation. :-) Warm (upper 70s) and humid. I think I would have enjoyed this course more in, say, April. ;-) Green course, nominally 5.1 km, 128 m climb; 1:5000 and 2.5m contours.

I didn't have to wait to start, so got my map, started, and flipped it over to see that I needed to head SE to hit a trail. First intro to the crappy vegetation which included downed trees from the August tropical storm. Hit thr trail but had to climb out of it and go around a downed tree that blocked it before reaching the control (also Red's #4; they had the next two legs same as Green). Then I think the scale messed with me to #2 as I couldn't make sense of the fields (shown as rough open with vert. green lines but mowed, in reality) and did some loop-de-lops before I figured out where ai must be and went back. Saw Alan Y heading into it, and he helped me into the next one too, a short leg.

#3-4 (6-7 on Red) was about 750m long cutting across the map and I did fine on the route choice; just bumbled a bit in the green as I neared the control and got into an adjacent reentrant. Used mapped features to 5 (and some not on the map), and #6 was a reentrant in an obvious hill, both in one of the nicer areas on this map.

First part of leg to #7 was fine but then I bobbled around in the rough vegetation and relocated from #8. Then it was an easy return once I found #7. Wide right to #9, bouncing off the trail from the lake; wide left to #10 but missed the fact that 1.5 contours on this map (little hill in some green) wasn't very steep and started climbing the nearby bigger hill before realizing I was going too far left (and saw one of the Suhocki girls coming back that way; I think she was on the Green course because I'd seen at her a few other controls I had). #11-12 I was heading for a road before I realized there was an out of bounds area marked around the buildings there (ranger bldg?). Fine on all the rest, curving out to the road again on 14-15 rather than down and up 5 contours in a reentrant though the climb would have been spread out.

I drank most of the water in my 50oz Camelbak and sweated it back out starting about halfway through the course. :-D

Results should be up later today so I can see if I beat anyone. ;-P

Green - Splits

Trying out a new loop from home to get closer to 4 miles, with climb. May adjust route at some point. 70-ish and humid (considering it showered earlier, and after we finished).

Looks like some middle school cross country action going on in the park today that we had to somewhat avoid.

Earlier in the day someone posted a pic of an eagle on one of the nearby powerline pylons, so we took a walk afterwards to check it out.

West End Regional Park bike trails. Short sleeved bike shirt, expecting to need a wind jacket at 65F, but it was humid enough that it felt warm enough without the jacket. Wore HR strap (but some data could be bogus). Fun exploring a new trail S of the road that connects two sections (1&2 of 3) of Extra Credit. Temp rose to mid 70s while we rode.

The first time around section 2 of EC I noted an area with Virginia creeper vines on the ground that had turned red, so the second time I passed through I stopped to take a photo. Just after snapping it I saw Glen ride by on the next trail over (part of Spruce Loop), and sure enough, in my photo there's a small orange blob visible through the trees. ;-)

Took the Pine Loop road out to where it started to drop down the hill and wasn't sure exactly where I was so I turned around and went back to the junction. Headed back to the car for a lunch break.

There's a new short double-humped boardwalk set up (currently) near parking so I tried it out, too.

After a break headed out again for a shorter loop. Down Draft to Fun Stuff, then around the entire loop labeled Round About (except for the very first part just off parking). Plus a couple fun loops through the catch basins next to the driveway into the parking lot.

Glorious day for riding, or doing anything outdoors!

Those Altra shoes really help for running on pavement! Cushions... mid 70s and getting more humid. Overcast but the sun came out a few times, just for me; then disappeared again after I was done.

Deanna's autumn equinox vinyasa class (level 1/2...there were a few things we had trouble with).

Found a small tick earlier when I showered after my walk, likely picked up yesterday. The ones I've found this year (this is the third in a month; all from different places--Swatara SP, Mountain Lakes, and Sandy Run) have all been <1mm size...tiny little things.

A selection of controls from Sandy's Feature Checking UsynligO course at Sandy Run near Hickory Run. Temps near 70, sunny.

The area near 1 & 2 is very confusing to me. The app told me I was at a control on my course but not the correct one, and I took a hint there. There is a smaller roundish low area with a small rise very near and similar to the big one between those two controls. Score O version gave me credit for #2 twice.

Okay through 4 then I angled out to trail. I saw two ruined stone walls (but mappable by some) on the way. #5 is in a vague area too (took another hint). Trail to 6 then cut in but hit a smaller wet area I thought was the stream first (hint). Decided to switch to Score O mode and skip 7-10 and go for 11 next and did fine 11-12 (skipped 13) -14.

14-15 I missed by a bit (lots of saplings reduce visibility here) and got another hint, then I mislocated myself thinking I was at 16 and attempted to get 17, but was not in the right area. Eventually gave up on 16-19 and got 20-21, but missed 22. At that point I figured Glen was just about done and decided to head to finish getting 29-30 on the way, which went well. Humbling.

Took waypoints at two giant boulders somewhere between 15-19 to try to see later where I actually was/if they are on the map. [edit: they're probably the ones N and NE of that "marsh" north of 15...I was way off from where I thought I was]

Nice day for O, though! Some trees starting to change colors as we got closer to the parkland, but not too much change yet.

Back to car

Jasper Park in Vera Cruz. Lenape Indians used jasper from mines/pits here for tools. We could see the pits; there were signs warning people not to remove any minerals from the park.

Upper 60s and sunny blue skies.

Burkhart Preserve on the ridge above Vera Cruz. Trails somewhat overgrown in places but still passable (except for the top of the white trail near the magnetite pits where stiltgrass hides the jumbled rocks you need to cross). A few cobwebs (Glen walked ahead of me so he got the brunt) but not nearly as many as when I was here last time (late July).

Near 70 and still sunny.

Stopped to watch a red-bellied woodpecker.