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Visible Wildlife interpretive sign - Bay Trail
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| Why Ponds? interpretive sign - Bay Trail |
Time: 1:04-2:57 p.m. (1 hour 53 minutes)
Resting heart rate (wake-up): 51 bpm
Weight (exercise clothes): 83.87 kg (184.90 lb)
Body Mass Index (
BMI; note
criticisms of BMI): 24.4 (Overweight = 25–29.9)
Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR): 2,018 cal/day
Distance (running): 12.91 km (8.02 mi)
Cumulative distance (2024; ignores XT days): 1,609.79 km (1,000.28 mi)
Calories burned: 961 kcal
Average heart rate: 113 bpm
Max heart rate: 138 bpm
Weather at start: Mostly sunny π€️ 13° C (55.4 F), Humidity 67% Wind: 24G39 km/h
Terrain: 72 ft elevation
gain
Avg Pace: 14'09" /mile
Best pace: 12'57" /mile
Stinkiness air level (0=No smell; 10=☣️): 4/10 (pretty bad in spots)
Comments: 1,000 miles run year-to-date π Our 2nd visit to the San Francisco Bay Trail. Again started at the Sunnyvale Water Pollution Control Plant. En route, we passed a long line of drivers entering The Twin Creeks Sports Complex, host of the
MVLA Winter Cup 2024 π₯
⚽ Parked in the same spot on Caribbean Drive. Had a rough go walking on the muddy earth road, due to rain. Something which sounded like generators were running. Unknown to us at the time, Moffett Channel seems to run by the area we walked. We started our run around the ~85-foot (nameless?) hill, then down the stairs on the far corner, where we rejoined the Bay Trail. Ran by the Sunnyvale WPCP West Pond. On our left, there was a dilapidated wooden walkway next to a transmission tower, and I imagined the mild impulse to run to its end and swan dive into the tall cattail clusters. π€ About 1-2 miles in, Dawn suggested we try for 8 miles: 4 miles out and back. The red rotating radar tower looked the same. This YouTube video identifies it as, "
Moffett Field dual horn Radar - ASR-9 (AN/GPN-30) Airport surveillance Radar antenna" (c. 2013). Passed the fenced-off Lockheed Martin facility. Next, we heard the clack noise of club strikes as we passed The Golf Club at Moffett Field. Dawn mentioned she imagined NASA executives spending their leisure time there, in years past. Pond A3W was on our right, then "The Devils Slough". We noticed the airstrip for Moffett Field, and Dawn (who has studied landing systems) wondered what the red-and-white striped equipment was used for. The Bay Trail juts out into Pond A2E, then makes a 90-degree turn back toward shore. We reached Stevens Creek, and chose to run to our right. As we reached Ponds AB1 & AB2, we passed a handful of vehicles on the shoulder. Small boats lined the shore. Several men wearing camouflage walked out to a waterfowl blind. We continued a bit further before reaching our 4-mile turnaround point. Intermittently, we heard waterfowl hunters firing shotguns, usually in clusters of three shots. A bit unnerving. For the first time, we noted a string of widely-separated waterfowl blinds in the water. One person in a boat was motoring across Pond A2E, then turned around and headed back. I guessed maybe they had to take their boat for some distance to exercise the motor. We saw one brown-orange decoy duck floating near the Bay Trail, likely it had gotten lost from its owner. Stopped for a minute to
peer through a tower viewer (binoculars). The return went slower. Weather was pleasant. Lots of birds. Dawn spotted a jackrabbit with its enormous ears monitoring us. A number of runners & cyclists, but otherwise a pleasant, uninterrupted run. After we visited Happy Lemon for drinks, then home to relax.
Any
irregular feelings, aches, pains, heart rate, and so forth?: Left hamstring spasming mildly
Foods
eaten today: Kashi GO Toasted Berry Crisp Cereal with nonfat milk, Kirkland Signature Colombian Cold Brew Coffee - 11 fl oz (x0.5), Costco chicken noodle soup & everything bagel, Happy Lemon - Strawberry Shortcake Smoothie, Pastelaria Adega - Bolo rei (x0.1), La Croix sparkling water (12 oz),
