Training Log Archive: Funderstormin

Saturday morning at Tracy Ridge it was pouring rain, so I decided to hang out in Earl a bit longer and enjoy a good book to see if it let off. It did eventually, but not until nearly lunch time.

I'd planned a longer run / hike on the trails in the Tracy Ridge Recreation Area which included a portion of the North Country Trail. The area is well signed with lots of length / route options. Ran for the first hour or so but my Achilles was giving me grief so I settled for hiking the rest instead.

It was lovely and green and humid in the woods, but the scenery was pretty unchanging and the humidity brought out the FDFs, so I was happy enough to have gotten about 20km or so in and head back to Earl in time to head to our campsite for the night down at the bottom of the ridge at a place called Willow Bay. It was much less wilderness-y and family-oriented than Tracy Ridge but I did enjoy the hot shower and had a cool site backing onto a babbling creek!

Earl and I headed down to the Allegheny / Allegany region (why do they spell it differently?) for the long weekend. We both get very excited about the prospect of unexplored trails! We were staying on the PA side for the first two nights but stopped in the NY part of the park on our way to down to check out the Black Snake Mountain (mountain is a bit of an exaggeration) trail as it crossed the NY/PY border and I thought that it would be cool to see the marker!

It was raining as I started and I was the only person on the trail, which made my NY/PA border selfies much less awkward.

Ran a bit, hiked a bit, but am too lazy to try to figure out how much of each. In my Ambit, I call it "rambling".

A fun start to the trip! When we were done we headed over to the Tracy Ridge Recreation Area on the PA side for the night.

Went out for a lovely later evening (well later for me to be running!) run along the Grand Valley and Grand River trails.

I love this class so much.