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Saturday Aug 7, 2010 #
8 AM
Running (Trails) 1:19:00 [3] 11.4 km (6:56 / km) +30m 6:50 / km
shoes: Wave Creation 10 3rd pair
Easy long run!! Legs felt good and knees okay!!
Thursday Aug 5, 2010 #
6 AM
Swimming 1:20:00 [3] 2.8 km (28:34 / km)
MTC Swim with Coach Stewart. Warm 300 mixed, 3 x100 pull and 3 x 100 IM Main set 2 X(8 x 50 descending 1-4, 8 x 50 Hard 0:30 rest) Cool down300 m pull
Core and arm thrust was below par after being mia for most of July. Slight leg cramp also.
Core and arm thrust was below par after being mia for most of July. Slight leg cramp also.
6 PM
Baseball 10:00 [3]
shoes: Adidas Training Spikes
Won this game!
Wednesday Aug 4, 2010 #
5 PM
Running (Trails) 34:00 [3] 5.0 km (6:48 / km) +20m 6:40 / km
shoes: Wave Creation 10 3rd pair
Easy run in the 30 C temperature. Felt a bit sluggish but otherwise fine!
Tuesday Aug 3, 2010 #
5 PM
Hockey 40:00 [3]
shoes: Koho 3380
Great to be back on the blades! Epipen on the bench but no allergic reaction! Legs felt a bit off but not surprising.
Sunday Aug 1, 2010 #
12 AM
Orienteering race (Rogaine) 10:15:00 [3] ***** 22.0 km (27:57 / km) +300m 26:10 / km
spiked:12/25c shoes: Merrel Moab Ventilator
At W5 we filled the water bladders and took a 25 minute rest which is interrupted by a 4 man teams' arrival. We later learn this team has 5 people but the female member seems to be missing in this night travel. Time to get back in the game as it is a fair way until sunrise. We hear 53 is at a cemetery and the trails are confusing in that area. Sure enough, we get close but the trials do not make sense. Going on a south bearing we hit a clearing. It is the cemetery with the control behind it.
On track, an aggressive move is made. 73 is at a beaver dam way below a trail. We head south below the control and drop to the stream, following it north to the control. Piece of cake! Heading east to a trail and north to a road, we decide to attack the north section of the map as intended later in the race. The sun rises as we approach the drop off for 35. After a few forays on the upper slopes but not finding the control, it is decided to bail for 65. Heading west, many trail junctions are encountered. We count 3 and take the next one. Wrong! There is an extra, we head north into a confusing section not well mapped before realizing the error. 20 minute error. We try to find 42 as it should be near but it is elusive also. Back on track, 65 is no problem and our second cemetery. Taking a trail and jumping off at a stream, 42 is found abut where we were last attempt. 31 is west of the area lost in earlier and the mapping confuses me. Many teams are seen now, some finishing night excursions and other starting morning ones. We travel the road for a classic drop between 2 streams and the ready attack of 74. We traverse to the road to go for 63. On the map there is easy corridor on the south side of the control. We think we are in the area but the bush is impenetrable. So we decided to attack from the east. The bush is yuck! We do our best and get through it but keeping a direction is impossible. We find a steam confluence but no control. We think we may be too far but on reversing, no luck.
Time to pack it in!! Blisters are a problem on one and there are no easy controls within a hour travel at current speed. Cold drinks have been in my mind for too many hours now. Chocolate has gone out of favor many hours ago. SB reaches the Hash House at 11 am. Most of the teams seem to be already in, GH SLO, GHOing Steady, MTBTH and such. Cold pop and burgers hit the spot.
Silence Beckons ends up 26th in the field of 56 though there are only about 35 24 hour teams, 6th in the Veterans Co-ed category. We learned a lot. We carried too much gear. Full trekking poles slowed us down but are sure nice if one has the swimming arms of a triathlete. Pace counting for distance would be a useful technique. Stream controls at night are advised as spur, saddles and the like, give problems. We only used the big light when near controls. More use and carrying the second one would have helped. Lots to be learned from major post race analysis. Also training is required, both running and navigation. SB went over 60 km though and this should have yielded more points. However, SB stayed out all night for the first time in a rogaine and was perhaps still functional in the morning.
Post morteum, I had been experiencing re-occurring allergic reaction symptoms for a month from a bout with poison ivy, leading to a heat rash and then lumps. The night after the race was my third trip to Emergency . I carried an Epipen during the race but throat swelling lead to the hospital trip. Bashing through bush O style with the light attack of insects is not recommended if one is in that re-occurring mode.
On track, an aggressive move is made. 73 is at a beaver dam way below a trail. We head south below the control and drop to the stream, following it north to the control. Piece of cake! Heading east to a trail and north to a road, we decide to attack the north section of the map as intended later in the race. The sun rises as we approach the drop off for 35. After a few forays on the upper slopes but not finding the control, it is decided to bail for 65. Heading west, many trail junctions are encountered. We count 3 and take the next one. Wrong! There is an extra, we head north into a confusing section not well mapped before realizing the error. 20 minute error. We try to find 42 as it should be near but it is elusive also. Back on track, 65 is no problem and our second cemetery. Taking a trail and jumping off at a stream, 42 is found abut where we were last attempt. 31 is west of the area lost in earlier and the mapping confuses me. Many teams are seen now, some finishing night excursions and other starting morning ones. We travel the road for a classic drop between 2 streams and the ready attack of 74. We traverse to the road to go for 63. On the map there is easy corridor on the south side of the control. We think we are in the area but the bush is impenetrable. So we decided to attack from the east. The bush is yuck! We do our best and get through it but keeping a direction is impossible. We find a steam confluence but no control. We think we may be too far but on reversing, no luck.
Time to pack it in!! Blisters are a problem on one and there are no easy controls within a hour travel at current speed. Cold drinks have been in my mind for too many hours now. Chocolate has gone out of favor many hours ago. SB reaches the Hash House at 11 am. Most of the teams seem to be already in, GH SLO, GHOing Steady, MTBTH and such. Cold pop and burgers hit the spot.
Silence Beckons ends up 26th in the field of 56 though there are only about 35 24 hour teams, 6th in the Veterans Co-ed category. We learned a lot. We carried too much gear. Full trekking poles slowed us down but are sure nice if one has the swimming arms of a triathlete. Pace counting for distance would be a useful technique. Stream controls at night are advised as spur, saddles and the like, give problems. We only used the big light when near controls. More use and carrying the second one would have helped. Lots to be learned from major post race analysis. Also training is required, both running and navigation. SB went over 60 km though and this should have yielded more points. However, SB stayed out all night for the first time in a rogaine and was perhaps still functional in the morning.
Post morteum, I had been experiencing re-occurring allergic reaction symptoms for a month from a bout with poison ivy, leading to a heat rash and then lumps. The night after the race was my third trip to Emergency . I carried an Epipen during the race but throat swelling lead to the hospital trip. Bashing through bush O style with the light attack of insects is not recommended if one is in that re-occurring mode.