{"id":11555,"date":"2017-11-01T22:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T03:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11555"},"modified":"2017-11-01T22:52:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T03:52:18","slug":"skywatch-friday-recovery-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11555","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday &#8211; Recovery Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"20171029-151615-38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/37993353882\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4444\/37993353882_d8d48c6299_z.jpg\" alt=\"20171029-151615-38\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, son Logan and I went for a walk on Tulsa&#8217;s Turkey Mountain. I had run a race the day before so I just wanted so get out and stretch my legs a little bit. Something called a &#8220;recovery walk&#8221; or a &#8220;recovery run&#8221; except I was not running.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20171029-143916-16\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/37969869976\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4501\/37969869976_b4c4d520b4_z.jpg\" alt=\"20171029-143916-16\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Turkey Mountain has a few double track miles of trails but most of it is single track. Once we got a quarter mile away from the parking lot, we had the place to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20171029-151155-36\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/24172193578\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4465\/24172193578_e0b8c1237f_z.jpg\" alt=\"20171029-151155-36\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The air was just barely warm, and dry, and the skies were deep blue.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20171029-152225-40\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/37315240764\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4446\/37315240764_bc1c8041d5_z.jpg\" alt=\"20171029-152225-40\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The just barely changed leaves were almost fluorescent with the sun shining through them.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"20171029-145303-29\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/24172036108\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4469\/24172036108_c4e94424b6_z.jpg\" alt=\"20171029-145303-29\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The grasses are just now turning color.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Turkey-Mountain-Strava-Recovery-Walk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11554\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Turkey-Mountain-Strava-Recovery-Walk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Turkey-Mountain-Strava-Recovery-Walk.jpg 502w, https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Turkey-Mountain-Strava-Recovery-Walk-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a track of our journey. We stayed on the &#8220;Snake Trail&#8221; not because of snakes but because the trail folds back on itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TurkeynTatur25K.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11557\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TurkeynTatur25K.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TurkeynTatur25K.jpg 514w, https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TurkeynTatur25K-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m running a 25K race this coming weekend on Turkey Mountain, the <a href=\"http:\/\/turkeyntaturs.com\/#myPage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TurkeynTaturs 25K<\/a>. We&#8217;ll be running the Snake Trail and just about all the other trails on Turkey Mountain as well. I&#8217;lve pretty much run them all. I plan on taking my time and trotting the non-rocky flats and downhill segments and walking through the rocks and uphills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Heat-map-turkey-Mountain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-10987\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Heat-map-turkey-Mountain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Heat-map-turkey-Mountain.jpg 334w, https:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Heat-map-turkey-Mountain-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a cumulative &#8220;heat map&#8221; showing all the trails I had run as of several months ago. As you can see I run a lot on Turkey Mountain. I love it and the race Saturday will be a tour of all of it.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck!! It will be the longest race that I have run since 1997 when I ran the Madison Marathon in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m linking with <a href=\"https:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skywatch Friday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, son Logan and I went for a walk on Tulsa&#8217;s Turkey Mountain. I had run a race the day before so I just wanted so get out and stretch my legs a little bit. Something called a &#8220;recovery walk&#8221; or a &#8220;recovery run&#8221; except I was not running. 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