Training Log Archive: KFish

Got a few new v1-3 and made progress on a v2-4

4x Buffalo hills. Beautiful clear cool evening.

ab torture

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I designed a red - length, Orange difficutly course at Hartwood Acres. The hills were rather manageable at this park, and the woods were some of the best of any WPOC maps. It printed a little weird, so it was actually more like 1:7500 than 1:10, so i tried to push the pace since map reading wasnt too difficult at that scale.

Mostly pretty happy with route choices. Not sure I really found the features at 1 and 3, but i was in the circle, and didnt waste time wandering around looking for them. Had a couple route choices on the long legs that I am pretty proud of.

I will definitely come up with some more stuff for this park since it was so nice! First adventure in the books for the orange adventuremobile!

warm up (downhill)

"cool down" (uphill)

Mostly avoided rain. Stuck to pavement because even that was flooded in spots.

Was not feeling it today

Got out early enough that i avoided most of the rain. A light sprinkle on and off and a few minutes of heavier rain. Tried to pick it up on the downhill section at the end. Legs felt pretty good - probably cuz this was a pretty bad week for me.

Got a little distracted checking out some trails during mile 4

75 at the start and i was feeling it! cooled down once we got in the woods and that suited me better

6 two min intervals

Ab torture + rock rings

Didn’t feel like running in the rain. Tried to replace the battery in the HrM but it still wouldn’t connect. Hmm

Pretty sad attempt at 2 min intervals. Wasn’t feeling it. HRM battery died

Hills at SP. Need to get ready for Raccoongaine!

Another good day of v1-3 and v2-4

Speed work. Decided to try out the track at the local high school. Worked out pretty well.

warm up

Old Red map from deer lakes park.

I gave syd a 5 minute head start. The downside to that is It was very tempting to just follow her tracks in the snow. I tried not too, but when you know whos tracks they are and that they are probably going to the right way, it makes it extra hard. A few inches of wet sticky snow, it wasnt too bad to run around in. Pretty nice out, in the 40s too.

Left 4 in the wrong direction, and didnt find 5 at all. other than that it went pretty well with the above caveat. Need to be good about avoiding green woods cuz they are thick and pokey!

still liking the 100

Several new v 1-3, one new v2-4 and lots of project routes

Met syd after work for a jog. Just got it in before dark. Legs are feeling not that bad at this speed.

recovery ride

Event: 2018 Frozen Beaver
 

Frozen Beaver 2018
6 hr Rogaine, USGS Map
Solo

This was a rough race for me. My lower back started bothering my early friday, and wasn't feeling great as the race started Saturday. Even so, I dont think that that slowed me down at all.

Planned a route trying to minimize climb and am actually really happy with my plan. It was the execution that was lacking.

Hit #65 as my third control to try to break from the crowd, which worked well. But I went in 1 reentrant too early having forgotten that decent sized reetrants dont show up on USGS, only huge ones do. Spent probably 15 min in the wrong reentrant before realizing my error. When I got to the right one I was happy to find a drink token!

Found 81 no problem, but upon exiting I got myself stuck in a semi-frozen pond wasteland that I couldnt figure out how to cross. I should have followed Richard back to the trail and way around, but I was too stubborn. I eventually found a narrowish spot that I tried to leap, came up short, ended up wet from the knees down and also smashed my shin on the ice... Great place to be 1 hr in..

The next 3 went alright, but then exiting 72 I got pushed around by thick stuff and ended up going down a very different spur than I thought. Again was in the wrong reentrant (by almost 1 km!) while searching for 42 - richard came to the rescue telling me i was not where I thought I was. After finally correcting i made it to 52, my 1/3 mark, 10 min late.

The next 4 went alright, but I got quite winded coming up from 81 and my mind started to wander. I took a terrible spur down to 74 - thick with thorns, burrs, and sapplings. Then I took a bearing from the E-W lines instead of N-S, which had me really confused why I couldnt figure out the terraine for a while. Pretty much the start of my race falling apart. Eventually made it back to the road at the top of the ridge, and must have looked confused (i was) because Mr. W asked "do you know where you are" as he ran past.

On the way to 43 i noticed i couldnt really feel either of my hands, and could barely make my fingers move. Tried to pick up the pace to get my blood flowing, but they stayed cold down to 32 and 51. On my exit from 51 I dropped my compass, and only knew it was in about a .3 km stretch between the flag and the valley. I trekked back up to the flag trying to retrace my steps, and then back down towards the valley with no luck. Then Barbara and Jens showed up again and said "Did you lose your compass, we just found one". I was very happy to have my compass back, but cold, dejected, and not able to find any motivation so i headed back to the finish, picking up 4 controls near the roads and trails on the way.

21/30 controls
1120/1630 points

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