Training Log Archive: mayer22

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We got to Hopi Camp and were told Tecnu2 still hadn't arrived and we still had a CP advantage on SRF. Tecnu1 was in the lead. This was good news. We had been dissappointed at our pace because Joel was having some leg troubles and Kristen was trying to push as hard as possible. Julia and I were trying to do as much work as possible to keep the team moving as fast as possible.

We moved quickly through transition hoping we could clean the next section and keep our CP lead over SRF. The first few points were close to camp and I accidentally got tripped up in a branch. I fell on my knee. Julia said she heard the crack it made. I was worried what this might lead to. I took a minute and then grabbed the branch to use as a walking stick and kept moving on.

We took the next section slow. Mostly walking with occasional sections that I tried to shuffle. In addition we had forgotten to get water and were all just about out and moving further away from water. We were about to attack the last optional and decided it was too risky to make our 12pm cutoff on the water. As we prepared to leave for the water I looked at my knee and it was twice as big as it was supposed to be. I tried to walk and couldn't bend my knee. I then told the team that I was done. There was now way I could race for 2 mroe hours let alone 24. I was already fearing spending 2 or 3 hours in the boats.

We walked down to the bigger road and waited to get picked up. On our way we passed a garbage dump in the woods that had a recliner. I was tempted to relax but the team kept me moving. Doug, and the camera crew showed up in short time to take us back to Hidden Valley.

Dissappointed we had to drop with things looking up but nothing we could do. Save it for next race. Time to heal... again.

Nap

My knee before the drive home.

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Event: Equinox Traverse
 

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The race started with a monster trek with lots of optional CPs. RDs said they didn't expect teams to clear the course but the mileage seemed low to me so we decided we would only drop points if we were worried about cutoffs or it the points would require significant amounts of time.

Both Tecnu teams started fast we hung closer to the SRF team to CP1. We then worked our way to CP2 gathering some optionals. There were a couple small route choices to be made. I had several trail maps to aid in the decision. At CP2 we were still just a bit behind Tecnu2 and SRF.

We made what I thought was an interesting route choice to gather the set of optionals between 2 and 3. It was significantly less climbing and less distance. Not sure what other teams did on this but felt it could have made a significant difference.

Not sure of the placing and times after the trek but I am pretty sure we came in 4th. We were told that SRF had skipped 1 CP.

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This was a long bike that started out pretty familiar making our way south to Ohiopyle. We left Seven Springs by going through the old airport instead of Blue Hole. Again limited time and distance but we risked finding the trail. We had a little trouble with the trail but still saved some time.

The next CP was a CP along a creek and an unmapped trail. We came to this section just as it was getting dark. We spotted the CP easily and then started looking for a way out. The first trail we were to pass wasn't visible and looked to be very steep so I figured the effort to get up wasn't going to be worth it and try for the next trail.

The trail turned into a well prepped logging road and turned around (North) and went up the hill. I didn't see the road that was supposed to go South (the preferred direction) so I took what we were being given. I then couldn't find the next trail so we ended up climbing and riding further. We eventually made our way back to the trail we missed. It ended up being rougher than expected and dissappearing at one point. We were fighting briars. I was cursing our troubles and we finally found our way out. Looking back there were definitely better options than what we executed but not sure there was much I could have done.

The next bit of the ride took us to the rail trail which we rode for about 15 miles and struggled to stay awake. We then rode some areas I haven't been to before and made our way to Hopi camp just as the sun was coming back up.

Spent all my time last night preparing food and gear for the race. Took about 4 hours including the short trip to the grocery store and I left my rice krispie treats at the self checkout :-(

By the time I finished it was already the bedtime I had set in order to get some extra sleep. Instead I ate some ice cream watched some TdF and then went to sleep. Might be able to catch some z's on the drive up tonight.

Gym with KT

Spinning out the legs. Cadence in the 90s.

Quick run at 7 minute pace. Had a 1 minute spurt at 5 min pace.

Quick run on my "TT" route from McLean. Stopped for a potty break as I got on the trail. Several trees still down across the trail.

Came across another runner along the trail and couldn't keep up with him. This made me realize how out of shape I really am. He turned off the trail shortly after but I was sturggling to keep the pace up after that.

I did this run 2.5 minutes faster in March minus the obstacles and the humidity at about the same effort level.