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Sunday Aug 16, 2020 #
4 PM
Walking 51:15 5.15 km (9:57 / km) +19m 9:46 / km
ahr:109 max:138
A loop through Hopewell Park and neighborhood across the main road. Mid 70s and overcast, a bit humid. I don't mind the 70s one bit.
Saturday Aug 15, 2020 #
Yoga 55:00
Deanna's meditation on pigeon pose...lots and lots of hip stretching
Friday Aug 14, 2020 #
11 AM
Biking 58:56 7.18 km (8:13 / km) +50m 7:56 / km
ahr:111 max:150 shoes: Trek DS 3 hybrid
MtB trails at West End Regional Park near Neola, temp around 80 but slightly less humid than it's been, though I still sweated and dripped when I stopped. Rode a new-to-me trail, Extra Credit, S of the road that divides the two sections of the park.
1 PM
Biking 17:39 2.55 km (6:56 / km) +12m 6:47 / km
ahr:119 max:145 shoes: Trek DS 3 hybrid
Short ride after lunch.
2 PM
Note
AOWN notes:
Yesterday, saw one deer, no snakes or bears; picked up (and let go) an insect walking stick while crossing the wide powerline
Today, from the car while I was changing, saw a mouse venture into the parking lot from beneath a rock; binocs were useful to make sure it was a mouse and not a rat. Then I saw a shadow and the mouse scurried back to its rock...hawk! Mouse did not reappear, and hawk eventually gave up.
Yesterday, saw one deer, no snakes or bears; picked up (and let go) an insect walking stick while crossing the wide powerline
Today, from the car while I was changing, saw a mouse venture into the parking lot from beneath a rock; binocs were useful to make sure it was a mouse and not a rat. Then I saw a shadow and the mouse scurried back to its rock...hawk! Mouse did not reappear, and hawk eventually gave up.
Thursday Aug 13, 2020 #
11 AM
Walking 13:31 0.81 km (16:44 / km) +15m 15:16 / km
ahr:99 max:117 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
To start; mid to upper 70s
Orienteering 1:39:17 *** 4.97 km (19:58 / km) +125m 17:44 / km
ahr:118 max:152 spiked:12/14c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Haystack/state game lands off 309
More Haystack Adv 3 course, 4.3 km (thanks, Sandy! and Greg for the map)
Once I figured out how to get to start (I think there's an extra, unmapped trail just off the parking area), finding the triangle was straightforward.
Really enjoyed the course, which took me to a few familiar control locations but mostly different areas from the Adv 1 course I did here earlier this summer. The vegetation was also nicer than some of the other Pocono maps. It wasn't as warm as it could have been but it was still humid and annoyingly drippy (sweat) and webby (spiders).
Good routes and navigation to the first 4 (and I remembered the mapped "hill" just north of 3 was more of a rise with a large boulder on it, so piece of cake finding it).
Took off towards 5 figuring I could navigate by contours but hadn't chosen to count paces and mis-matched features I was seeing to features on the map. I did a loop-de-loop too soon, and then asked for a couple hints (direction and distance; not 51 hints that the program says!)...I was 300+m away, so obviously hadn't gone nearly far enough. Then I pace counted and once I got close could read the terrain better.
5-6 I noticed a mapped ruin on the line and made sure to check it out. It was the one I'd mentioned to Greg...very distinctive, right next to a large boulder.
:-)
Fine to 6-7-8 (re-tied one shoe at 6, the other at 7; blueberry and greenbriar are about the only vegetation that untie my knots), but mis-read terrain at trail crossing to 9 and ended up a bit north before correcting (coincidentally, where I left the trail from 3-4j.
Then, from 12-13, I ran into another freakin' spiderweb and tried to get a photo on my phone of the distinctive spider but it didn't want to focus on the spider. The tiny loop on the powerline was to remove a walking stick insect that was climbing up my arm and put it on some vegetation.
More Haystack Adv 3 course, 4.3 km (thanks, Sandy! and Greg for the map)
Once I figured out how to get to start (I think there's an extra, unmapped trail just off the parking area), finding the triangle was straightforward.
Really enjoyed the course, which took me to a few familiar control locations but mostly different areas from the Adv 1 course I did here earlier this summer. The vegetation was also nicer than some of the other Pocono maps. It wasn't as warm as it could have been but it was still humid and annoyingly drippy (sweat) and webby (spiders).
Good routes and navigation to the first 4 (and I remembered the mapped "hill" just north of 3 was more of a rise with a large boulder on it, so piece of cake finding it).
Took off towards 5 figuring I could navigate by contours but hadn't chosen to count paces and mis-matched features I was seeing to features on the map. I did a loop-de-loop too soon, and then asked for a couple hints (direction and distance; not 51 hints that the program says!)...I was 300+m away, so obviously hadn't gone nearly far enough. Then I pace counted and once I got close could read the terrain better.
5-6 I noticed a mapped ruin on the line and made sure to check it out. It was the one I'd mentioned to Greg...very distinctive, right next to a large boulder.
:-)
Fine to 6-7-8 (re-tied one shoe at 6, the other at 7; blueberry and greenbriar are about the only vegetation that untie my knots), but mis-read terrain at trail crossing to 9 and ended up a bit north before correcting (coincidentally, where I left the trail from 3-4j.
Then, from 12-13, I ran into another freakin' spiderweb and tried to get a photo on my phone of the distinctive spider but it didn't want to focus on the spider. The tiny loop on the powerline was to remove a walking stick insect that was climbing up my arm and put it on some vegetation.
1 PM
Walking (dirt trail) 16:34 0.87 km (19:08 / km)
ahr:95 max:121 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Finish to car
Forgot to stop watch when I got back, so adjusted time (deleted 0 intensity).
Forgot to stop watch when I got back, so adjusted time (deleted 0 intensity).
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020 #
Yoga 50:00 [1]
Ann's gentle flow yoga (thanks again, Ann!).
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020 #
8 PM
Walking 43:28 3.93 km (11:04 / km)
ahr:101 max:115
After dinner walkabout, after sunset. Still sweating 1/2 hour later. Low 80s, dew point 72 or 73.
When I walk in summer evenings, I keep an eye out for toads so as not to squish them. Lately I've been counting the sightings. I don't know if it's from last week's TS rain dump, but I counted 11 larger toads and 35(!) smaller ones, plus crickets and a large spider on or near the sidewalk as I traveled around. (And three other humans.)
The storm basin that usually has ducks also had geese this evening. Hope they are just passing through and don't hang around.
When I walk in summer evenings, I keep an eye out for toads so as not to squish them. Lately I've been counting the sightings. I don't know if it's from last week's TS rain dump, but I counted 11 larger toads and 35(!) smaller ones, plus crickets and a large spider on or near the sidewalk as I traveled around. (And three other humans.)
The storm basin that usually has ducks also had geese this evening. Hope they are just passing through and don't hang around.
Monday Aug 10, 2020 #
Yoga 1:00:00 [1]
Tree meditations, starting with leg movements and stretches on the floor and moving up to vertical (Deanna's video from 6/30).
Sunday Aug 9, 2020 #
11 AM
Hiking 1:16:10 6.4 km (11:54 / km) +28m 11:38 / km
ahr:101 max:123 shoes: 2019 Altra LP4.0 9 rspb
Lakeside Trail at Tobyhanna SP from the dam parking area, turning around at about the halfway-time point Glen estimated for his run. Low 80s and mostly sunny (in open areas near parking).
Lots of people on trails, mostly walking or biking, but also a few runners.
AOWN: One giant fungus near the base of a tree, about 1' x 1.5' x 6" high. Pic later, maybe. Also, where a stream went under the trail, a tiny pond nearby with tannin-stained vegetation on the bottom. Hemlocks, beeches, oaks and maples for the most part, plus a few other evergreens.
Signs at the trailheads warn about the potential for finding old artillery shells, left behind from shooting practice from WW I and II. Didn't see any, didn't go off-trail looking for any. :-)
Lots of people on trails, mostly walking or biking, but also a few runners.
AOWN: One giant fungus near the base of a tree, about 1' x 1.5' x 6" high. Pic later, maybe. Also, where a stream went under the trail, a tiny pond nearby with tannin-stained vegetation on the bottom. Hemlocks, beeches, oaks and maples for the most part, plus a few other evergreens.
Signs at the trailheads warn about the potential for finding old artillery shells, left behind from shooting practice from WW I and II. Didn't see any, didn't go off-trail looking for any. :-)
12 PM
Note
The small pond just off the trail
Large fungus near a triple-trunked tree
Large fungus near a triple-trunked tree
Saturday Aug 8, 2020 #
3 PM
Biking (paved and gravel) 1:19:52 20.83 km (3:50 / km) +77m 3:46 / km
ahr:111 max:149 shoes: Trek DS 3 hybrid
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).
Friday Aug 7, 2020 #
2 PM
Walking 37:11 3.24 km (11:28 / km)
ahr:91 max:103
Easy walk before forecasted afternoon T-storms
3 PM
Yoga 50:00 [1]
Ann's Thursday gentle yoga class from yesterday...nice and easy after yesterday's O.
Thursday Aug 6, 2020 #
11 AM
Walking warm up/down 19:46 1.24 km (15:55 / km) +2m 15:49 / km
ahr:96 max:111 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
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.
12 PM
Orienteering 1:46:37 **** 4.75 km (22:26 / km) +79m 20:43 / km
ahr:109 max:145 spiked:12/14c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
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.
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.
1 PM
Walking warm up/down 2:35 0.16 km (16:21 / km) +3m 14:48 / km
ahr:97 max:112 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
From finish to the car. Tired.
2 PM
Note
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).