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Saturday Jul 7, 2007 #
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CNYO rogaine - with Cristina
rogaine race 12:00:00 [2]
CNYO Finger Lakes Rogaine - 12 hour
Oh so close to a perfect race...or at least one where I'm not second guessing any decisions. Ended up with 1150 out of 3300 points which put us 3rd in the 12 hour category behind two all male teams.
Cristina and I worked well together - never more than a few words needed when discussing routes or changes in plan. She was a great partner and if my knees could have handled it, she would have been willing to tow me a ton more than she did. The best news is that feet, knees and hips all hurt less than I feared: feet and bad knee no more than usual and hips and good knee not at all. Very, very pleasantly surprised. Cristina's feet got to her a little after dark but it took a long time before she let on and she didn't let it slow her down. We never stopped or sat down. We lay down a few times but that was so we could get under the incessant barbed wire fencing around every blankety-blank field.
For once, I actually had an intelligent strategy for a rogaine! We got (or tried to get) pretty much every control in a long narrow swath that resulted in such minimal climb that the few times we did have to climb, it actually felt good to use different muscles. And although our plan was designed to leave us lots of options for skipping controls at the end, it also gave us options to add on when we covered way more distance than I thought possible. (Will have to measure to figure it out but I thought 3 km/hr was my absolute max and we're pretty sure we did more.) And the best part is that it wasn't our first idea. We mapped that out and felt pretty good about it and then I said, just for kicks, since I never do and I always regret it, let's sketch out another loop so we can feel confident our choice is better. And we were astonished to find that the new plan had more points and left us a much richer set of options at the end. So we went with this second plan and had we executed it just a tad better, we would have been 2nd overall in the 12 hour instead of 3rd. (No way we could have caught the first team - some young Canadian dudes that had over 1600 points.)
The map was a bit sketchy in a few places which resulted in our wasting a lot of time on our first control (#77) but eventually finding it, being 100% sure that a control was misplaced (#45) and so deciding to move on but then not getting credit for it since most teams found it although many agreed that it was not in the right place, and not getting a control at night (#75) that you could apparently see from the trail but you wouldn't know it since the trail wasn't mapped correctly but we hit it at night and couldn't read the subtleties of the terrain and my "spotting" flashlight wasn't working so we didn't get lucky. And because we lost time on these controls, we didn't have the time (although in fact we probably did since we finished with 8-10 minutest to spare but I was nervous about how fast we could get in) and so didn't hunt up the reentrant far enough for #55. So we missed out on 40+70+50 points and we were 100 points behind the 2nd place team. But a bit more rogaine "savvy" would have gotten us #45 and #75 and a bit more pushing would have gotten us the extra time to get #55 so hopefully some lessons learned. For #45 I have to admit I was tired and had somewhat turned off my brain since the control looked so easy on paper. And when it wasn't where we expected it, I couldn't pull it together to suss out what might have happened when it was hung to figure out where else to look as many other teams did. And for #75 we knew the trail wasn't mapped correctly since major turns we were taking weren't on the map, but it was 10pm by now and I didn't have the discipline to use all the information I had and use a safer attack. (In hindsight, I knew we hadn't dropped any contours so the trail couldn't have been where it was mapped. Ah well.) We navigated pretty well to most everything else - I can only think of a couple of other places where we didn't just go pretty much right to the control.
Anyway, it was great to have had a good strategy, to have navigated cleanly for the most part, to have held up physically and to have convinced Cristina in the first place that doing a rogaine with me was a good idea!
Oh so close to a perfect race...or at least one where I'm not second guessing any decisions. Ended up with 1150 out of 3300 points which put us 3rd in the 12 hour category behind two all male teams.
Cristina and I worked well together - never more than a few words needed when discussing routes or changes in plan. She was a great partner and if my knees could have handled it, she would have been willing to tow me a ton more than she did. The best news is that feet, knees and hips all hurt less than I feared: feet and bad knee no more than usual and hips and good knee not at all. Very, very pleasantly surprised. Cristina's feet got to her a little after dark but it took a long time before she let on and she didn't let it slow her down. We never stopped or sat down. We lay down a few times but that was so we could get under the incessant barbed wire fencing around every blankety-blank field.
For once, I actually had an intelligent strategy for a rogaine! We got (or tried to get) pretty much every control in a long narrow swath that resulted in such minimal climb that the few times we did have to climb, it actually felt good to use different muscles. And although our plan was designed to leave us lots of options for skipping controls at the end, it also gave us options to add on when we covered way more distance than I thought possible. (Will have to measure to figure it out but I thought 3 km/hr was my absolute max and we're pretty sure we did more.) And the best part is that it wasn't our first idea. We mapped that out and felt pretty good about it and then I said, just for kicks, since I never do and I always regret it, let's sketch out another loop so we can feel confident our choice is better. And we were astonished to find that the new plan had more points and left us a much richer set of options at the end. So we went with this second plan and had we executed it just a tad better, we would have been 2nd overall in the 12 hour instead of 3rd. (No way we could have caught the first team - some young Canadian dudes that had over 1600 points.)
The map was a bit sketchy in a few places which resulted in our wasting a lot of time on our first control (#77) but eventually finding it, being 100% sure that a control was misplaced (#45) and so deciding to move on but then not getting credit for it since most teams found it although many agreed that it was not in the right place, and not getting a control at night (#75) that you could apparently see from the trail but you wouldn't know it since the trail wasn't mapped correctly but we hit it at night and couldn't read the subtleties of the terrain and my "spotting" flashlight wasn't working so we didn't get lucky. And because we lost time on these controls, we didn't have the time (although in fact we probably did since we finished with 8-10 minutest to spare but I was nervous about how fast we could get in) and so didn't hunt up the reentrant far enough for #55. So we missed out on 40+70+50 points and we were 100 points behind the 2nd place team. But a bit more rogaine "savvy" would have gotten us #45 and #75 and a bit more pushing would have gotten us the extra time to get #55 so hopefully some lessons learned. For #45 I have to admit I was tired and had somewhat turned off my brain since the control looked so easy on paper. And when it wasn't where we expected it, I couldn't pull it together to suss out what might have happened when it was hung to figure out where else to look as many other teams did. And for #75 we knew the trail wasn't mapped correctly since major turns we were taking weren't on the map, but it was 10pm by now and I didn't have the discipline to use all the information I had and use a safer attack. (In hindsight, I knew we hadn't dropped any contours so the trail couldn't have been where it was mapped. Ah well.) We navigated pretty well to most everything else - I can only think of a couple of other places where we didn't just go pretty much right to the control.
Anyway, it was great to have had a good strategy, to have navigated cleanly for the most part, to have held up physically and to have convinced Cristina in the first place that doing a rogaine with me was a good idea!
Thursday Jul 5, 2007 #
trail 56:40 [3]
TNT - my sister Judy was in town and she joined us. Judy and I ran (while Eric walked) a shortened loop at a slow enough pace that I could talk the whole way. It was just the right workout - enough without being too much.
Had another classic Tom meal complete with wine; despite the mostly O talk, Judy had a great time.
Had another classic Tom meal complete with wine; despite the mostly O talk, Judy had a great time.
Wednesday Jul 4, 2007 #
Note
Knees hurt. :-(
Tuesday Jul 3, 2007 #
running 1:10:10 [3]
TNT - with Sandy while Karl ran the trails on his own. I'm oddly pleased with this run...
10:01 down to the drive (walking the road part)
10:01 first mile
9:23 second mile (4:46 and 4:37)
10:01 third mile (5:16 and 4:45)
10:43 fourth (6:00 and 4:43)
20:00 stretching and walk back up the hill
Could have pushed harder during the fourth mile but things were starting to hurt so I jogged very slowly and then even walked a bit before picking it back up again.
10:01 down to the drive (walking the road part)
10:01 first mile
9:23 second mile (4:46 and 4:37)
10:01 third mile (5:16 and 4:45)
10:43 fourth (6:00 and 4:43)
20:00 stretching and walk back up the hill
Could have pushed harder during the fourth mile but things were starting to hurt so I jogged very slowly and then even walked a bit before picking it back up again.