Training Log Archive: boyle

Event: OOC Gatineau Park P7
 

This was my 11th Terry Fox run. I ran early so that I can head to the Gatineaus. My first lap was all alone and was the faster lap. I missed a negative split by 20 seconds but met my target of an effort stronger than the Boilermaker. Mind you, conditions were much better than the BM.

C • Congrats! 1

Lac Fortune
Long advanced

Linda put on a good course with legs of varying length and challenging distance and climb. However, the map is just too stale, especially concerning new trails near Camp Fortune (nordic, alpine and aerial). Because of unmapped trails, I was unable to locate control #8 with the limited energy I had left by then.

Today I couldn't out run any of the walkers on my course. I screwed up lots (which is not unusual). I felled down lots (which is very unusual). I don't want to blame the 10k road race. However, even though I had blown control #8, there was no way that I was jogging back to the finish without visiting the control #9 water stop for a long drink.

With or without the 10k run, dehydration was a factor. Leaving #1, I drifted right and played at the rock piles 100m south of target. I was slowest racer on leg 2.

Flying down from #3, I turned left too early and found myself all messed up in the no-go red zones. Buildings and roads were missing from the map. However, that's not the mapper's problem because I shouldn't be in that section any way. I was almost slowest on leg 4.

While it wasn't my original route plan, from #4 I followed the stream all the way. From #6 to #7 took forever (all the way up and all the way down, three times) and the walking crowd caught up with me. I took the longest on leg 7.

Brain dead exhausted at this point, I mistakenly headed for #9 rather than #8. Now coming at #8 from the chalet parking lot, I could not locate the trails or the open lands that I needed.

I had time to fix things but I no longer had the energy. On the long jog back, I visited #9 (water), #13 and #17.

C • #9 4

I don't like to log strolling-through-the-woods geocaching. There is no training element involved. The effort is less than minimal. Caching on the map weeks ago was no help in today's orienteering event. However, because of the significant climb and the preceeding race efforts, I decided to log the distance in my shoes and the time moving.

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I'm simply tracking shoe mileage. All shoes are soaked from night raids and I had to wear trainers today.

I ran an orienteering cache (G6VB). I took forever to see the jar of map at waypoint #2 even though it was right at my feet and then I blew the orienteering at the actual cache site.

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Preparing for the upcoming night-O, I will be doing night caching to get used to the lamp and the spooky woods. The adventures will be low-level efforts not worth logging.

What an adventure, as I looked down one ground hog hole (which in hindsight I shouldn't have been doing) the cell phone jumped out of the fanny pack and ran down the hole. Oh well, I now had to reach down the hole retrieve the phone and find no cache. Similarly at the next site, I leaned over the rocks along the reservoir and watched the cell phone dive in to the water. Oh well, as I jumped in the water to retrieve phone I could now check out the rocks at eye level (without success).

C • sFTG?hsRT? 2

With puppy training there is no time for my training!!!