Training Log Archive: mayer22

Set in almost immediately after the race. Sore throat and running nose. Ear congestion on the hilly ride home. Sore muscles and headache followed when I got home.

Event: Odyssey Wild, Wonderful 24 Hour AR
 

Wild and Wonderful

Paddle was cancelled. River peaked at over 16ft exactly at race start. This was the 22nd highest peak recorded. 0 is standard and 4-6ft is normal for this time of year. The rafting would have been EPIC. The river looked insane. Like a beast.

The team had a strong race. Moved fast and in the right direction almost the entire time. Urgency suffered a bit since GOALS was no longer elite and Odyssey had to go unofficial. We still moved fast but stopped for pictures and maintenance a little more than usual. Had a great time and saw some great scenery.

LeMans start to bikes.

When I got to my bike I found that someone decided to lay it down in some nice poison ivy. Thank you.

Climb to Fayetteville from takeout

Run through Fayetteville to gather some CPs

MTBO on Arrowhead trails. Really well designed course section. Adding topo lines to the trail map and making the lines less than a 1/2 in thick iwould make this a professional MTBO.

Long Orienteering section. Started with some points we had to plot around Fayetteville area. Had some amazing views and awesome scenery on this section. Did some of it with GOALS.

On the first half (14-19t) I had to make a few minor recoveries (1-2 min) to each of the points. But no real problems. Still good navigation.

The second half was on ACE property. Struggled deciding when to get CP 22. Got it after 20 because I thought it would allow for more trail travel but I think in retrospect it would have been better after 24. Distance looked just as far but with the way we ended up leaving 24, 22 wouldn't have really been out of the way and would have been on trails. It was a tough call for me though so I don't feel too bad.

On our way to the last few points before we went to TA I started having trouble with the trail map. The labels are aligned E-W. I kept reading it as if they were N-S though so we were going the right way because I was following terrain but every time I looked at the compass I couldn't understand what was wrong. Befuddled me for two points until I realized the cause. Other than the 1 route choice only one 5 min error on the second half. Misread the map right before the attack to 24.

The pace was fast for this entire trek. Running whenever we could. Finished just after civil twilight.

Gathering the last points around the TA on bike instead of foot. Moved slow on these because it was dark, the trails are slow and everywhere, and we were starting to get tired.

Translated CP30 to the trail map incorrectly onto a parallel spur (the spur had a matching road with a unique shape, trail, and reentrant). When it wasn't there we thought Ronny had misplotted because the clue was off. We double and triple checked and then moved on. Next two points were clean and the trails to them were all good.

27 was difficult. Everyone had trouble with it. The planned attack was through private property. Had to back out and attack from farther away. On my way realized I mistranslated this point as well (just 1 reentrant off) but caught it in time. Had trouble finding the small (actually big but shallow) reentrant in the dark. Spent time looking in an wrong reentract full of briars before we reattacked from the top/private property. Still had to go all the way back to the bikes though.

Had trouble finding an ACE trail on the way to the last point but got it and then rolled back to TA. When we got back we asked about CP30. Teams had apparently collected it so I checked one more time and noticed my translation error. The road is really what messed me up. Luckily it was only a mile or so away (but 400ft climb) so it was fairly easily attainable.

Trekking during MTBO

PT. Stretching and Kelly rolled out my L calf. Also did some calf raises that were really hard. L calf was really sore the next day.

Easy ride in to PT. Did some ab strengthening along the way.

PT. Stretching and strength exercises.

Ride to CRC/work

Commute home via Glade. Made a quick stop on campus.

Ride in. Feeling a little bit stronger. Starting to get warm in the mornings too.

Garmin is broken. Uploaded a bunch last night and charged it but the screen wasn't working this morning and won't take a charge.

Ride home. Started easy finished fast.

Using Strava app for now. Seems to work better than with my old phone. Road is probably better than trails as well.