Training Log: hammer

Orienteering 40:00 [3]

Well nobody did a tougher workout in Hamilton than the Tour du Marteau athletes this morning. Sudden said there would be blood and in the words of Dang 'well maybe some internal bleeding'. In a raging rain and snow storm with 45km/hour winds, gusts to 70, flooded roads (which took out Pither on the bike) and the waterfalls raging like I've never seen it the boyz did the K2 northface hell-o hill-o. What is it?

4.5K with 450m of climb!!
4 loops of K2 with downhill O.

The Big-E took the big prize running an impressive 38.45!
Turbo 2nd, Dang took the bronze.

I just jogged in the forest and was on photo detail. Thanks to Baloney and el tigre del norte for taking us in an serving up some chocolate and hot drinks. The search for the ladder starts later this week.

C • el tigre del norte 2

Orienteering 5:00 [3]

Wadd Squad drove around and visited a bunch of Hamilton's waterfalls including a few hikes like this one to Tiffany's. Incredible flow!

Orienteering 50:00 [3]

In the DV setting out some Marteau ribbons and also some GLOF ribbons but then I ran out of ribbon so went on a nice and muddy map run.

Stopped by the sandal running couple's house on the way home to see Baloney's all season radials.

Orienteering 30:00 [3]

Le Tour de Marteau
Circle Orienteering with Jeff, Big-E, Sudden, Dang, Turbo and MrP in more pouring rain and mega wind.

Only ran the opening exercise as I was tired and clipped a fence and fell hard.

Fun exercise.

Followed up by the required dinner at ESM in Dundas.

C • If I knew you'd be practici... 2

C • ESM 2

Running 45:00 [3]

Le Tour!

http://dontgetlost.ca/index.php?option=com_content...

Killer opening few stages of the first Le Tour du Marteau in pissing rain. If this doesn't motivate me to train nothing will.

Stage 1: 1K time trial on a flat road. 4.08 Ouch! I remember running park orienteering races in that km time

Stage 2: Waterfront stairs. 14.01 Ouch again. 11 flights of stairs in a successively increasing flights (1,2,3...11). Just over half of what I used to do (full pyramid: 1,2,...10,11,10,...2,1) with Tarno back in 2002. My PB then was 14.52 for the full course. Mega ouch.

Stage 3: Urban sprint-O. I just walked home to my house since I was dizzy and the knee was sore and it was pissing rain and for lack of a better excuse - I'm mega out of shape.

Fun evening chatting with Pither and Dang about the cool maps and exercises at the Vancouver Sprint Camp.

Core 30:00 [3]

and the bends but knee still sore from saturday.