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Training Log Archive: cedarcreek

In the 7 days ending Apr 7, 2008:


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Saturday Apr 5, 2008 #

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I am tired. I was a pack mule most of the afternoon, carrying 6 and then 7 gallons for well over a mile (mostly on flat)---That's 48 and 56 pounds, respectively. I admit to being a backpacking wimp. Then a shorter bit (750m?) with 4 gallons.

I lot of planting stands and programming SI gear.

The unknown that got me was that I had to buy the water (7 cases of 6 gallons each), sports drink, and snacks (cookies and pretzels) myself. I've spent about 5 hours since Friday shopping unexpectedly---Costco didn't have water in gallons---Wal-Mart 1 was out of the cheap stuff, so I had to buy their 2 remaining cases of "Nursery Water, fortified with fluoride"---Meijer's didn't have any in cases---and finally, at Wal-mart 2, I had to wait 25 minutes while they found and carted out 5 cases. In the past, that was taken care of. (I'm not complaining, because other people in the club have done a lot more than I have.)

The last few hours was with a headlamp. I'm recharging the batteries now for some early morning Night-O to do a short loop we didn't place SI boxes on, plus some of the white course.

Up in 3 hours.

Friday Apr 4, 2008 #

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Way too much going on. I'll be carrying a lot of water into the woods today and Saturday in preparation for the Sunday ultralong.

Wednesday I spent about 12 hours making battery packs for all our old SI units. I thought it would take 4 or 6 hours, and it was a lot slow than I expected---12 hours.

Thursday we spent 3 hours reassembling the SI control boxes with the new batteries, but we didn't get done. I've got maybe 30 more to do today.

The big goal today is to finish putting the advanced stands in the woods and to carry about half the water to the remote water controls.

I've to either find someone to program controls for me, or I've got to do it myself. Then a pass of all the controls tomorrow to place the SI, and the remaining water.

I've also got to be in Oxford immediately after the first sprint to get the stands, flags, and SI gear, which I am reusing for white and yellow controls Sunday. Oxford to the Sunday event site is about 80 minutes driving, so...there are a lot of logistical issues. I might be using a headlamp Saturday to finish. I don't think it will come to that.

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