Ternate LSD

January 18, 2014

Saturday, Its a nice day to conduct a weekend LSD. 

Today LSD will be on Cavite-Batangas but this is not an ordinary LSD since we will we will be pass by Mt. Pico de loro Traverse (yup, we will be hiking/trek along Mt. Pico de loro traverse trail).

We started our training around 5:20am at the Ternate Bus stop station. We left some of our things at one of the carenderia there.

The route is a hell of a kind uphill challenge. We run to DENR for almost 1hr 30mins. We rest for a bit and we saw a group of people (doing a company activity at Pico de loro). Ternate bus stop to DENR distance is 9.2km. After eating boiled egg, bread and banana (breakfast) we continue our LSD but this time we do some trek since we will be going to Mt Pico de loro.

TAPIK Trail Runners at Pico de loro

We do the trek upto the campsite of Pico de loro for another 1hr 30mins, we do some photoshoot. We also saw Martin at the campsite and rest at the store there, drink some Mountain Dew, eat some trail food that we brought at the DENR. After doing some photo shoot at the campsite. We decided to climb the summit and did some photo shoot at the summit. We climb the monolith of Pico de loro afterwards (We do some rock climbing Yey!). After the monolith climbing, we continue the traverse of the Pico de loro upto Nasugbu. Martin decided to come along with us since he will be doing his solo Nasugbu Trilogy. Along the way to Nasugbu, we encounter a group of mountaineers that will be doing their nasugbu Trilogy also. We told Martin to join them so that he will have some acquaintance to Talamitam and Batulao. Pico de loro traverse distance is 9km.

We reach the Nasugbu road around 11am. We rest again for 10-15mins then starting running again to DENR. This time the route is not that easy since it will be a heat training. We will be running under the heat of the sun (hot). Along the road we took a rest at one of the store to drink some Coke. After drinking and do some fast rest we continue our run to DENR. When we are near the Kaybiang Tunnel we saw a woman at one of the corner of the road selling dirty ice cream (com to think of it, at the middle of the road a woman selling dirty ice cream, she said she was from Ternate and went there to sell dirty ice cream). After the ice cream moment ewe continue to run to DENR and we will be passing the Taybiang Tunnel which is almost 400 meter long tunnel. After the beautiful tunnel experience we continue our run upto DENR. We reach DENR around 2pm, distance from Nasugbu to DENR is 11km

Dirty ice cream moment with ate Julie

Kaybiang Tunnel

Exhausted Runners at DENR

     After resting at the DENR, we continue to run for the last 9km (Yes!). We will be going back to the Ternate bus stop running downhill, after the uphill in the morning, we will be running downhill in the afternoon. We reach the Ternate Bus stop around 3:30pm our total time is 10hrs. Its a 10 hours of run walk hike LSD. Congratulation to my fellow Ternate LSD Jullius, kuya Argie, Lui and John(Countryboy Tugade).  Total distance 38.3km LSD.

Ternate - Pico de loro - Nasubgu, Ternate Route