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Wednesday Mar 26, 2014 #
Calisthenics (General) 2:00 [3]
slept:5.5 weight:180lbs
45 sit-ups. It is a busy week for work with budget data due.
Monday Mar 24, 2014 #
Calisthenics (General) 2:00 [3]
slept:6.0 weight:179.5lbs (rest day)
45 sit-ups.
Sunday Mar 23, 2014 #
Event: Raccoongaine
10 AM
Orienteering (Rogaine) 5:55:01 [3] 16.12 mi (22:01 / mi) +1023m 18:24 / mi
spiked:22/24c slept:5.5
Western PA Orienteering Club: Racoongaine. Alexis Sherpes set a fine course for WPOC but the forest was pretty difficult to move through. The event in the 5th year used the northwestern part of this large park for maybe the first time. It was quite thorny and where there wasn't thorns, there were frequently blow-down trees. The course was laid out with more points in the more natural west than in the east where there were a lot more trails but also taller hills.
With 5 to 12 contour (5m interval) hills in the east, the hills slowed us down too. I ran with a hydration pack (my new Camel Arête worked well enough) filled with drink, food, and spare items, I couldn't run over the vegetation nor deadfall.
It felt like David Onkst (team partner) and I were walking most of the way or more correctly, stepping over or pushing our way through stuff in the way. Very early-on, Dave caught whips of thorns that sprang back from sticking to me as I moved forward. He had blood across his forehead for a long while. We both cursed a lot more than usual.
We started out doing only 5K an hour and slowed. Our navigation was pretty much on-target for the day. I bobbled 2 of the last few controls--one of these was due to flipping back and forth between the 2 provided maps and reading the wrong reentrant, and the other was a self-marked mystery control in a cabin area on a telephone line that I saw the wrong cabin/power line first. Most of the time we were moving so slowly through the large features that I sometimes felt it hard to make an error. It was more difficult than that, with many areas of low visibility. The day was cold with it starting out around 26 F, but not getting much beyond 32 F--there were snow flurries but in the afternoon, the sun came out for a while. The bite valve on my hydration pack got partly frozen but I was able to suck warmer liquid into it to melt the problem. I ran in gloves, tights, gaiters, a thermal shirt, and a long-sleeve o-top. This was enough to wear most of the time but I was chilly a lot of the first hour.
My stomach didn't feel so good during the day. It might have been some of the reason I felt especially weak on hills after 3 hours. I didn't eat or drink much (except for breakfast) because I didn't feel the need to either. That could have made me weaker but I might still have some weaker form of what Max had last week or so.
The route David and I took today was: 36, 35, 46, 47, 33, 43, 58, 48, 71, 62, 68, 79, 59, 67, 69, 66, 57, 56, 70, 31, 72, 73, 56, 41. This is far less than we envisioned during our pre-race planning but we feel we moved through the difficult terrain just about as good as we could given our physical conditioning. We finished with just under 5 minutes left on the 6 hour time limit. We had both wanted to get #54 on the way in however, I concluded that we might not have enough time and should instead grab the mystery controls near the start that were already behind us when we discovered their location in the morning. That was probably the best solution for us because we were moving across the rough forest very slowly.
P.S. David informs me that we had gotten first in the masters division.
With 5 to 12 contour (5m interval) hills in the east, the hills slowed us down too. I ran with a hydration pack (my new Camel Arête worked well enough) filled with drink, food, and spare items, I couldn't run over the vegetation nor deadfall.
It felt like David Onkst (team partner) and I were walking most of the way or more correctly, stepping over or pushing our way through stuff in the way. Very early-on, Dave caught whips of thorns that sprang back from sticking to me as I moved forward. He had blood across his forehead for a long while. We both cursed a lot more than usual.
We started out doing only 5K an hour and slowed. Our navigation was pretty much on-target for the day. I bobbled 2 of the last few controls--one of these was due to flipping back and forth between the 2 provided maps and reading the wrong reentrant, and the other was a self-marked mystery control in a cabin area on a telephone line that I saw the wrong cabin/power line first. Most of the time we were moving so slowly through the large features that I sometimes felt it hard to make an error. It was more difficult than that, with many areas of low visibility. The day was cold with it starting out around 26 F, but not getting much beyond 32 F--there were snow flurries but in the afternoon, the sun came out for a while. The bite valve on my hydration pack got partly frozen but I was able to suck warmer liquid into it to melt the problem. I ran in gloves, tights, gaiters, a thermal shirt, and a long-sleeve o-top. This was enough to wear most of the time but I was chilly a lot of the first hour.
My stomach didn't feel so good during the day. It might have been some of the reason I felt especially weak on hills after 3 hours. I didn't eat or drink much (except for breakfast) because I didn't feel the need to either. That could have made me weaker but I might still have some weaker form of what Max had last week or so.
The route David and I took today was: 36, 35, 46, 47, 33, 43, 58, 48, 71, 62, 68, 79, 59, 67, 69, 66, 57, 56, 70, 31, 72, 73, 56, 41. This is far less than we envisioned during our pre-race planning but we feel we moved through the difficult terrain just about as good as we could given our physical conditioning. We finished with just under 5 minutes left on the 6 hour time limit. We had both wanted to get #54 on the way in however, I concluded that we might not have enough time and should instead grab the mystery controls near the start that were already behind us when we discovered their location in the morning. That was probably the best solution for us because we were moving across the rough forest very slowly.
P.S. David informs me that we had gotten first in the masters division.