Wildflower from the Manabu Peak

I haven't mentioned about these wild flower from my blog entry regarding my Manabu climb.

I picked up these petals from the ground, the blue petal looked like a beak and find it really interesting that I decided to pick it up thinking that I could show it to my little girl.

Other exciting petals draw my attention that I decided to pick it up too (I have no idea what do they call it- I am not good in flora and fauna subjects).

I put this precious petals in a zip bag.

When I come home these petals were already withered but their beauty never ceased to amazed my baby girl.

She innocently ask me- "Mom was it a gift for me?"...she was beaming when I replied yes...."Gift from mother nature."

Then she ask me again "Did you see Dora?" (hehehe from the famous cartoon tv series dora the explorer).

I ask MNM to take a photo of whatever beauty was left from it.

Climb Blog#1: Manabu Peak

My first Minor climb for 2009 was at the Manabu Peak.
Jump off at Bgy Sta Cruz Sulok.

Below is the IT courtesy of ADTREK-MC

DAY 1
1700 Assembly time in Pala-pala
1730 ETD to Lipa City
1930 ETA Fiesta Mall, Lipa Take tricycle to Sulok, Brgy. Sta. Cruz
2000 ETA jump-off
2230 Start ascend
2115 ETA Grotto, refill water container (only water source)
2130 Resume trek
2315 ETA Summit, camp setup Dinner/Socials
0200 Lights off

DAY 2
0600 Wake up call
0700 Breakfast, break camp
0900 Start descend
1030 ETA jump-off Tidy up
1200 ETD to Lipa
1230 ETA Lipa, Lunch
1330 ETD to Manila/Cavite


Wow! According to the map we saw- the total trail/trek distance is only 4.3K.

Huwat! We were like wow -all of us have been running 5K at 30-40 minutes (average) and why are we gonna trek this at 2 hrs? hehehe addicts!

Anyways, I was humbled by the experience. The truth is running on pave is really different from running the trail or trekking the trail. We had an average of 5Kg load and we were just walking and the terrain that is very variable. In fact, we've got lost along the way as there is a lot of confusion with a lot of cross roads- I'd say trails were always traveled(nyahahaha not less traveled eh!).
Nevertheless, we took the summit at 2 hrs (even if we started really late!) at 10 PM.

Of course it was soooo cold up there.
The addicts decided to take some drinks to warm up the nights (minus me, hyperacidity took toll on me).

The climb was really fun- specially during the socials....name calling, endless wordplay and laughter....wow and these addicts took a gilbeys of 700ml to just 15 minutes drink (giving each of them a dose of 100ml- what a record!). I'll have to check on what is the world record.

Trivia:

• Who is this FM AKA FrogMan, my take Frequency Modulator (FM) for stopping the noisy gals on their name calling/roll call and putting them to rest.


• Who is this HF AKA Happy Feet, my take Hands Free (HF) for being always on the phone that looks like on a handsfree mode....following up the status of EOQ.


• Who is this ITECH AKA ITIK nyahahaha, my take I-TECH for bringing in his GPS enabled phone that tracks our trek and evidently show that we were lost during our descend nyahahaha (we were like seeing everything ei!).


• Who are these gals called porky pig, sandugo, and spidey *****


• Why are these trivia referring to the aniname (not anime eh! nyahahaha)....because the eight addicts were the new members of ADTREK-MC Zoo.....Zoo or Madagascar??? Alex (lion), Marty (Zebra), Monkeys, Gloria (Hippo) and the Giraffe (I forgot d name)-castings not yet included nyahahahaha.

The descend was lotta fun too....we got lost for quite sometime (and nobody complaints nyahahaha besides we have the parrot to assists us -was not on the climb but with us through SMS all through the night trek and descend). We made it to jump off after 2 hrs too (just like our ascend). Why? Because everyone is so excited to see the CR nyahahaha.

Because of so much excitement and fun, as we converese on the way home.....we were discussing and we were like planning another night trek "Batulao ???Pre-valentine ei!"

P.S. Photo and layout courtesy of eyefocus who bought a decent camera, the rest of us were on our celphone built in VGA cam hehehe (of course except I-TECH).

Below are some of my shots using my K610i phone (so lowtech hehehe).

From the top: I took the first two pix after peeing (morning pee hehehe); the next two pix where taken at the summit; the cross was situated at the summit; the last pix were coffee beans which according to my companion can be made into the famous coffee "Alamid".

Running Blog #11 Practice Running for a Minor Climb

After office today I took another practice run - another 5.3K route for our minor climb this coming friday at the Manabu peak. The mountain they said is pretty easy and will require 2 hours to trek the summit. Well for me, there's no such thing as easy when your dealing with mother nature. So, I am not taking it easy....am preparing- and this is the goal of my practice run today. I may have run miles but am not a very good trekker, also I have this fear of heights. This is also the reason why I find this idea of night trek, exciting because I won't be that conscious of elevation.


I run with fellow adtrek members Lot and Macho Man.
Actually it wasn't a total work out run. Macho man and I introduced Lot into the world of running.

We give her some tips and background of how we started and we were really serious of getting her into this thing.....the good news is she is very interested and like a sponge- absorbs everything.


As for me and macho man, we really wanted her to become part of our running circles not only in our mountain climbing circles- because after all we have established a much deeper relationship through the seven summitters nyahahaha (that's what we call ourselves as business partners hmmmmm another "new" experience for the year, for this wordplay learner).


At 3K Lot gave up, we didn't insist that she complete the 5.3K course. There's always a next time.

Macho man and I decided a negative splits we took the last 2 Km at a speed of 10:00 min per km.

Total training time was at 46 minutes. Not bad ei! Besides we took mentoring a friend into becoming fit and fab. =)

Ciao....maybe my next blog will be clim blog #1 Manabu Peak.