Training Log Archive: JanetT

Earned 12 streets in Allentown on CityStrides today. Also being noted for the D&L Trail Challenge again this year (it's a good cause). Overcast, mid 60s.

Saw a kingfisher (and a number of ducks and geese) at the pond in Trexler Park.

Event: DVOA Hibernia County Park
 

DNF/MP (skipped two).

DVOA event at Hibernia County Park on an 6-year-old map (1:10000, 10' contours) with only vaguely updated vegetation and trails, nominally 4.9 km, 117m climb. It had showered overnight but was barely drizzling most of the time we were there; I didn't get as wet as I thought I would. About 60F.

The course designer tried to take us to the more-light and less-medium green areas through #12 but then threw in a couple of controls involving climbing a hill, with plenty of medium green and unmapped rocky ground, for two controls, just to come back down and up another hill on a simple trail route for the last couple of controls (one of which was hung wrong...not that it cost me anything because it was in the wide open, but was an additional data point against coming here again with the same course designer/s).

A number of us were headed to #1 at the same time. The flag was not at the edge of the field but in by where the darker green veg boundary is, and it appeared the stand might have been broken so others were fiddling with it and trying to stand it up, while I waited to punch. My route to #2 was the wrong one, but I managed okay on the rest in that NW loop (#3-4-5-6). Then a long slog back across the field to 7 which I did okay on. I missed #8, counting on the mapped but non-existent teail to catch me, and ended up closer to the field (North, or NE of it?) and headed back to the stream to relocate off the bend. [Cutting the line from 6-7, where it overlaps the trail S of #2 would have been nice (though even that trail is hard to find), and cutting the circle for #8 where it overlaps the stream bend would help too.]

Okay to #9 and 10, but missed on the approach to 11 and had to circle back for it. Two options to #12; I took the right-most one with roads vs trails going left. Then a long boring trail run to the road and an attempt to attack #13 from behind the house, where it was mapped a lighter green. There's some serious rocky ground mapped but it was everywhere on the slope of the hill. I never found #13, so I didn't bother going to #14 knowing I'd be coming back to the road for the hill climb to 15.

Green - Splits

Event: MNOC Masters Nationals
 

Slightly less gray today than the past few, but it'll be brighter later (and a bit warmer) when we tour our old high school before it's torn down. HS reunion tomorrow.

And another gray day, but warmer than yesterday.

Woodland Hills Preserve in Hellertown; second time I've been there (last time was almost three years ago). Partly for exercise, but when I saw interesting birds I tried to photograph them so there are a numbers of stops and waits (AP categorized this outing as "other"). Low 70s and mostly sunny with occasional clouds keeping the temp down. Lots of skittish birds, so not many photos.

In the community. Another gray day, slightly warmer than yesterday and just as humid, but no rain.

Gray day today

Walked neighborhoods, at a nice pace (for me). Happy that I can do this without much discomfort two weeks after my bike crash. Mid 60s, still gray.

Wellness doctor visit today so I got my flu shot. New doctor (the old one left the group) who is very nice, rides a bike on roads for exercise/stress reduction, and seemed interested to hear about my escapades this year (stitches and bike fall). Because I admitted to falling twice (the first was the one in March where I jammed fingers; the second when I got stitches in Oregon), they gave me one of the strength tests that Medicare suggests, the up-down test of how many times can you stand from a sitting position in 30 seconds. I passed with 16.