Training Log Archive: JanetT

Balance focused (Deanna).

Neighborhood, after dinner (and Jeopardy).

Event: Cancelled: Exact Change Rogaine at Hickory Run
 

Moon Lake State Forest Recreation Area near Wilkes Barre for MTB trails, temps around 60.

The first 8.5 minutes were on okay (wider gravel) trails, but when I headed out on the first part I was in over my head. Survived, and hit a trail junction at about 20 minutes. The map I carried didn't make much sense and I thought I was somewhere different than I was, but then I ended up back at the junction near the 8.5 min mark. Darn!

So I headed east on the wider easier trail, and tried sticking with it, but lost it close to the hour mark. In fact there was no longer any trail. I hiked the bike/bushwhacked east/southeast (because I knew I'd reach a mapped trail eventually in that direction) around trees and over small logs. Good thing the vegetation was friendly!

Made it a trail which went to a road and eventually made my way back to the car.

We'd brought sandwiches and Glen had eaten his and left me a note saying he went out again on some close-by trails, so I had my sandwich and headed that way myself to do a short loop. Ran into him going the opposite way on a trail and then we met back at the car.

Took a short walk to see where a trail went that was near where parked, but wasn't on any of our maps, then went back along the shore of the lake for a bit. There were several kayakers on the lake exploring and a few people fishing. I used the portajohn near the boat launch and then we returned to the car and headed home.

Jacobsburg SP, sunny and temps near 80, but not as humid as yesterday.

Neighborhoods across 309 plus a loop around DeSales.

Warm, muggy (with a few sprinks at the start, changing to sun later), about 80.

Focus on inner core muscles; Deanna's class.

Walk at Housenick Park and Arnold Johnston Conservation Area along the Monocacy Creek on the east side of Bethlehem this morning. We were on our feet for over two hours, but not moving for a lot of that because we were looking for birds or looking at old walls and marshes, so I edited the time to 67 minutes to commemorate my age-advancing anniversary.

Song sparrows, a wren, chickadees searching for bugs, mallards and Canada geese, some type of oriole (yellowish), but no warblers like others have seen here. But it was fun to check out another new-to-us park.

Overcast and mid to upper 70s.

C • Happy Birthday! 6

After a dinner of take-out Thai food, we took a walk to the town park and a little bit in the neighborhood. Since we'd covered almost 5km and approached an hour we decided to stretch it to 67 minutes. Double whammy...though none of it was intense (like Julia D's 20 miles for her birthday). ;-) Still in the upper 70s.

Don't believe the HR numbers. I was wearing a HRM but walking most of the time.

It was on the warm side, upper 70s and sunny much of the time but not in the woods. The beeches have leafed out, making visibility more difficult than perhaps they were maybe 2-3 weeks ago.

Hickory Run Short Advanced Virtual course (3.9 km, 1:10000 map) designed by Greg A, while Glen did the longer one. We used both O-Range (on Forerunner) and UsynligO (on phone, carried in a waist pack). I personally was much happier with the phone app as I could adjust the volume so I could hear the tone(tune); the annunciator on my watch isn't very loud under normal conditions and I can't adjust it. In addition, UsynligO announced all of the controls, and O-Range missed at least two. If I were to do this again (and I might) I think I'd just use UsynligO and not bother with O-Range. I even had the watch fastened onto the chest strap of my Camelbak which is at least 10-12" closer to my ears than on my wrist.

Misses were largely due to drifting to the right of my bearing plus visibility on the first two (numbers 4 and 6; to #4 I actually relocated at a permanent course marker--mapped as a black O--about 80m west of the point...ooops); and misreading the area north of 11. I should have stuck to my original plan of heading to the road and attacking off the height of land, instead of getting drawn off by other ponds connected by streams. Because the app announced my arrival a bit before I actually reached some of them I didn't necessarily go to the precise location as mapped (like the opposite end of a marshy area or pond). I did see the feature for each one.

Otherwise I was pleased by my navigation if not my speed, and the ability to be able to read some of the subtle contour detail even in the light green woods. White woods were wonderful, and I only saw a few pieces of greenbrier, mostly close to roads.

Thanks, Greg!!

Swung by Lehigh Gorge and walked a bit on the D&L rail trail. Not much in the way of wildflowers or birds (though we heard plenty). At the side waterfall of Rattling Run I could see remnants of red trilliums. Cliffs were pretty impressive, as was the size of the rhododendrons along the trail.

Then we drove back across the Lehigh and parked to look at the ruins of the tannery.