Training Log Archive: Tundra/Desert

Pulled out the 24th tick this morning. This one was much higher than any of the first 23, sucking out of the underarm.

C • Ticks! 2

Visited the rest of the locations of the Classic, towards the remainder of the course, starting early in the morning. Was hoping that Samantha wouldn't catch up, and she didn't.

Both the length and the climb are preliminary measurements, with the climb straight from the Polar.

After returning the rental car at STL, Eric and I racewalked to the hotel about 5 km away, deciding not to rely on the shuttle. I'm sure Eric would log this as 40 minutes of Level 1, but I choose not to.

The Middle race of the Team Trials. I ran well and fast, saw almost nobody in the woods. The result is the best I could have hoped for.

The course and the map were excellent. The length needs to be measured, the climb is from the route (the Polar noised up).

I visited 16 of the controls at Hawn (Day 3 of the Trials). It was raining intermittently, so I tried to stay out of the woods. All the bags were hung in the right places, at the correct height. I was going to move Blue Control 4 a tad, but then returned it to where it was; no tree in the more correct location. See Randy's blog for more; some people had a problem with the control.

The climb is from the map, the Polar gave a number that seemed too small in comparison with its own data from the test run. I do think Zoran deviated from the exact heights of the base map to show relief features more vividly, but not that much.

After the vetting run, I dragged 6 gallons of water for 40 minutes, then another 3 gallons for over an hour, then placed White course streamers... in all, probably a 5500-kCal day.

23 ticks found while in the shower, most attached. Have to doxy when I get back home.

Blue - Splits

Event: US Team Trials
 

The Falcons are done, both of them. I took them to STL but decided not to use.

Received a confirmation from Mal Harding today that we indeed got the credit for Control #38 from the US Rogaine Champs.

Team Trials Day 1: Sprint. I literally got off the airplane, on the light rail, off at UMSL and ran. I ran as well as I could given the rogaine five days prior; I figure the hit to my speed from that exercise was about 1 minute even. And, I made one stupid mistake and one not-so-good route choice.

Distance is a very rough guess; the climb is final, from the Polar, augmented by route analysis. Agrees 100% with the course setter's estimate, but the latter can only be made valid by inserting one contour across the stairs we traversed on the legs #9–#10, #15–#16; I assume the contour was omitted for legibility.

Sprint - Splits