Training Log Archive: Mr Wonderful

Event: Hinckley Reservation Night-O
 

Dark to start o run with Cris. Black through 3, then very slowly lighting up until around 7, then light off 8.

Absolutely fantastic course - so much runnability, hardly any scratch on my route.

Al sent me a slightly different version, so I ran to a different 13 than other competitors.

Not fast enough to scalp Dale. Or Rick, just Phil. Darkness was a factor to #2 and added some distance to #4, and took a little speed off through the fast pick section 5-6-7. Curious how it would have played out in daylight, since you can close in with more confidence that trying to make sure your gps track will confirm your position.

Satisfied though. Still have a couple things to concentrate on: bearing, distance, simpler attacks.

Long if bored:

S-1: Thought about around, then elected for lake trail
1-2: DNR truck! at the turn around. Running! I got nervous and took a less than desired jump into the woods.
2-3: Day time, might have tried the reentrant to saddle, but at night definitely using the swamp
3-4: Wasn't paying enough attention to direction on exit, meant to go straight to that low flattish hill due S of c, so just corrected when we hit that small round marsh inlet and went up the spur. Slightly careful on top, but easy to track position.
4-5: Al's killing me with these subtle placements at night! I love it! Hit the wide spur by skirting the low area and try to grab a reentrant in it.
5-6: Aim at wide spur hitting trail, then over the hill - surety of attack over climb avoidance at night
6-7: Saddle, reentrant, collect
7-8: Very nervous, so decided to work the big spur and use the flag area, to pick up the wide spur and then the "hammerhead" spur just before the depression.
8-9: Exit through another small depression to ensure one of them was right, hahahaha. I like Ati's route to the trail better than mine, and I tried to run fast through the low open area , but drifted north in the saddle and had to correct. Should have aimed at the guarding hill, fixed it by using swamp to tuck back in.
9-10: Mostly only wanted to get to the hill first, then managed to keep it pretty flat. I see Al is a huge fan of depressions in reentrants.
10-11: Similar to the summer streamer leg - get to the ditch, compass and bearing, sweep the reentrants off the spine.
11-12: Math not looking good. Dale's got me skunked. Cris, ready for 15 minutes of pain?? Trail looked faster, Ati's route is nice though.
12-13: My 13 was on the spur NNE of the real 13, so I just crossed and picked up the big middle swamp.
13-14: Since I was close enough to the road, I went to it to make brain easier and set up attack for 14, using the prominent reentrant hitting Torn Shirt and Blue/Yellow. I think from actual trail, knowing that green can be awful, trail to trail to reentrant is good. My compass and bearing got me right to the ditch, no issues.
14-F: Out to trail, then through woods, but Ati was faster via trail, noted.

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Hotel had dumbbells, so I did:

30:5:50 dumbbells (Matlab notation)
10x deadlift motion
10x bench

Max wasn't bad, further reminder to get more weight for basement or test the month to month gym.