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Sunday May 29, 2016 #
Running - Trail race (OMM Iceland Day 2) 3:32:06 [5] 22.7 km (9:21 / km) +898m 7:48 / km
shoes: X-Talon 212 (Jan16)
Light rain overnight resulted in a pretty wet tent which made it heavier, but we'd eaten so much food that weight was about the same.
[kit review]
- The jetboil zip was amazing. Boiled water in no time at all and used barely any gas. 100g easily enough for a 2 day MM. Excellent purchase.
- Taking a zippo was much better than a disposable lighter
- I probably had too much food and it was too inconvenient - I think I'll dismiss the homemade flapjack in future and have cereal bars instead
- I just had the two meals, and flapjack for breakfast. This was fine, although maybe would have wanted the hot meal had it been cold
- Chewing gum would have been more effective than the tooth wipes
[/kit review]
Set off with a few options. After a straightforward first control, decided we had time for one of two controls - decided against the (extremely steep scree slope for 500m) first one as too energy inefficient. Then all the controls were straightforward really, we had done (ahem) the hard navigation the previous day, so we just had to keep going. We'd decided that to go for the one extra control we'd need more than 50 minutes left at the preceding one - we thought it would take an extra hour but it was worth being 10 minutes late - and we had 47 minutes. We decided it was better to be early and to risk it.
We won...on time. So only just. We scored 10 points more on day 2 but were 28 minutes early...2nd place were 22 minutes behind overall on the same score overall having got 10 points more on day 1.
So we'd done enough to win - but it would have been far more comfortable without the navigation errors on day 1! Still - that's only my second time with a 1:40k map (and 25m contours!) so it wasn't too bad.
Results: https://www.theomm.com/omm-iceland-2016-2/
Tom (my partner from my running club) has been doing lots of training (he even gave up drinking, bless him) and he can keep pace with me on the road, but he's not as fast over the rough terrain (see link yesterday). He promises to continue training for the Saunders next month!
Well deserved trip to the Blue Lagoon afterwards. Legs felt like new afterwards - great post-race treat.
I would definitely recommend this race! Small field, no trophy...but still £50 prize each, and the opportunity to run across terrain like nothing I've seen before.
Not as hard as the regular OMM - I think it was the fact that it was a score class that means you don't push yourself as much because you just omit a control rather than taking a risk - and nowhere near as hard as Transylvania.
[kit review]
- The jetboil zip was amazing. Boiled water in no time at all and used barely any gas. 100g easily enough for a 2 day MM. Excellent purchase.
- Taking a zippo was much better than a disposable lighter
- I probably had too much food and it was too inconvenient - I think I'll dismiss the homemade flapjack in future and have cereal bars instead
- I just had the two meals, and flapjack for breakfast. This was fine, although maybe would have wanted the hot meal had it been cold
- Chewing gum would have been more effective than the tooth wipes
[/kit review]
Set off with a few options. After a straightforward first control, decided we had time for one of two controls - decided against the (extremely steep scree slope for 500m) first one as too energy inefficient. Then all the controls were straightforward really, we had done (ahem) the hard navigation the previous day, so we just had to keep going. We'd decided that to go for the one extra control we'd need more than 50 minutes left at the preceding one - we thought it would take an extra hour but it was worth being 10 minutes late - and we had 47 minutes. We decided it was better to be early and to risk it.
We won...on time. So only just. We scored 10 points more on day 2 but were 28 minutes early...2nd place were 22 minutes behind overall on the same score overall having got 10 points more on day 1.
So we'd done enough to win - but it would have been far more comfortable without the navigation errors on day 1! Still - that's only my second time with a 1:40k map (and 25m contours!) so it wasn't too bad.
Results: https://www.theomm.com/omm-iceland-2016-2/
Tom (my partner from my running club) has been doing lots of training (he even gave up drinking, bless him) and he can keep pace with me on the road, but he's not as fast over the rough terrain (see link yesterday). He promises to continue training for the Saunders next month!
Well deserved trip to the Blue Lagoon afterwards. Legs felt like new afterwards - great post-race treat.
I would definitely recommend this race! Small field, no trophy...but still £50 prize each, and the opportunity to run across terrain like nothing I've seen before.
Not as hard as the regular OMM - I think it was the fact that it was a score class that means you don't push yourself as much because you just omit a control rather than taking a risk - and nowhere near as hard as Transylvania.