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Saturday May 21, 2016 #
9 AM
Adventure Race 10:00:14 53.64 mi (11:11 / mi) +662m 10:47 / mi
ahr:142 max:224 32c weight:222lbs
w Tizoc Barbara and Stina. (This is a joke as T and I just ran into them a lot, which was nice.)
Hemmed and hawed a bit about entering - I've been pretty wrecked at o meets, since apparently I don't have enough base to take three months off. But Silver Lake was so scenic, so I pitched it to Tizoc:
I'm really slow, if you want to go slow, please join me, if not no worries.
So he joined on the condition we would go slowly.
However, he is still quite strong and we pushed, harder than I can currently handle.
Probably ran the first o too fast. Oh well.
I need to do some terrain study in this area. Or learn to adjust to `1:24. The steep hills made some distances take a long time, and others were poof! instantaneous. Plus there's a lot of interesting up / down to sort out.
We skipped #11 Lighthouse on the way out in case we would later be pressed for time. Although in hindsight, I wish we hadn't; it goofs up the leaderboard so much to do points in any order, and head -to-head is more fun.
Biking went alright, I don't think I was too slow on the way out.
We should have been slightly faster - we could have caught the MRA ferry. But we hadn't swapped bike for trek gear yet, so we decided to take the next boat...which wouldn't start. Those minutes lost...enough for #35? Perhaps!
Trek was really bad for me. Couldn't quite perk up for a while, eventually got to more like 80% than 100%, it's weird.
Paddle was challenging. I was glad I brought a single blade as that made steering easier in the twisty bits. I am soo rusty!
We narrowly dismissed the channel to the correct channel and had a challenging reed whack. Thankfully, T continued to be the work horse, and pulled the boat while I crawled on my hands and knees to the channel.
Bike back was going well - we kept debating the lighthouse, and despite cramping flares, decided to get it because maybe there was enough time to clear.
Final o section was rough for me. I was pretty shot. And it was hard to get started at the start, confusing place, which meant climb. So much climb. Probalby should have grabbed T's back for a lift earlier, but too much pride or ignorance. Given the cards we were dealt (my lack of fitness), I think skipping #35 was the right call, since grabbing it is no guarantee we nip S & K anyway, and was fraught with risk of too much back and too little of my energy.
Satisfied with 4th overall - given my state, that's the best we could hope for. Exceeded what I hoped for even. T was amazing and carried us to that place by force of will and his unstoppable climbing legs.
Very well designed course I thought. MarkVT is really good at his job!
Hemmed and hawed a bit about entering - I've been pretty wrecked at o meets, since apparently I don't have enough base to take three months off. But Silver Lake was so scenic, so I pitched it to Tizoc:
I'm really slow, if you want to go slow, please join me, if not no worries.
So he joined on the condition we would go slowly.
However, he is still quite strong and we pushed, harder than I can currently handle.
Probably ran the first o too fast. Oh well.
I need to do some terrain study in this area. Or learn to adjust to `1:24. The steep hills made some distances take a long time, and others were poof! instantaneous. Plus there's a lot of interesting up / down to sort out.
We skipped #11 Lighthouse on the way out in case we would later be pressed for time. Although in hindsight, I wish we hadn't; it goofs up the leaderboard so much to do points in any order, and head -to-head is more fun.
Biking went alright, I don't think I was too slow on the way out.
We should have been slightly faster - we could have caught the MRA ferry. But we hadn't swapped bike for trek gear yet, so we decided to take the next boat...which wouldn't start. Those minutes lost...enough for #35? Perhaps!
Trek was really bad for me. Couldn't quite perk up for a while, eventually got to more like 80% than 100%, it's weird.
Paddle was challenging. I was glad I brought a single blade as that made steering easier in the twisty bits. I am soo rusty!
We narrowly dismissed the channel to the correct channel and had a challenging reed whack. Thankfully, T continued to be the work horse, and pulled the boat while I crawled on my hands and knees to the channel.
Bike back was going well - we kept debating the lighthouse, and despite cramping flares, decided to get it because maybe there was enough time to clear.
Final o section was rough for me. I was pretty shot. And it was hard to get started at the start, confusing place, which meant climb. So much climb. Probalby should have grabbed T's back for a lift earlier, but too much pride or ignorance. Given the cards we were dealt (my lack of fitness), I think skipping #35 was the right call, since grabbing it is no guarantee we nip S & K anyway, and was fraught with risk of too much back and too little of my energy.
Satisfied with 4th overall - given my state, that's the best we could hope for. Exceeded what I hoped for even. T was amazing and carried us to that place by force of will and his unstoppable climbing legs.
Very well designed course I thought. MarkVT is really good at his job!
Friday May 20, 2016 #
Note
I could hug MarkVT for having such a minimal equipment list that I might even be legal tomorrow.
C • Hug? 2
Thursday May 19, 2016 #
Note
Just sittin' around, getting random occurrences of what feels like someone inserting needles into my ankle (top side, about where the highest shoelace eyelet is on the outside of the food). Usually subsides quickly, thank goodness, as it is brilliantly sharp.
It was interesting to wake up to this searing pain at some wee hour this morning. Ow ow ow.
It was interesting to wake up to this searing pain at some wee hour this morning. Ow ow ow.