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Saturday May 12, 2012 #
Event: CNYO REGAINE VIII
12 PM
Rogaining 14:19:00 [5] 46.0 mi (18:40 / mi)
shoes: Saucony Exodus trail shoes
6th place overall. Very happy with this result considering I couldn't even jog one mile four days earlier. However, route planning was more of a limiting factor than my speed.
Leg 1 - With no planning time (maps handed out at about 11:52), I just decided to use a 4 hour block to head to the closest corner. I may have been influenced by Mark's lengthy discussion about how the control in that corner was at a convenience store open until 11 pm. A chance for an ice-cold drink on the course! I failed to appreciate the fact that the store was significantly downhill from the start/finish. Bonked about halfway back and ended up 31 minutes late. I felt like I never managed more than a shuffle, but I must have managed some semblance of running to net 19 miles in 4.5 hours. I could have gotten the same number of points in 2/3 the distance if I had turned around sooner, but I was still assuming that all controls were reachable. It turned out that Mark responded to all those Canadian teams who swept the Snowgaine by making this quite unsweepable, both in terms of distance and control placement.
The store was later described as a "sucker control". When I got there, I thought maybe he had arranged for a free coke or something (I did have this happen once, at an event in Ohio). No such luck.
Leg 2 - With a 93 minute penalty, I decided to take my 3 hour block and try to get the nearest 3 controls in 87 minutes. Alas, I only made it to one, wasting nearly all the time on one of the others (#43). My track for this leg looks like a scribble. I must have passed within 20 m of the control four or five times. It was a short, shallow reentrant (almost a point feature) in an otherwise featureless area and I just couldn't spot it in the twilight/darkness.
Leg 3 - Midnight to 4 AM. Physically, I was feeling much better, but a lot of that must have been due to moving at a slower speed. Took another stab at #43 (failed), then did a loop on the west side of the map - not a point-rich area, though. Let frogs guide me into one control next to a pond. Thought I was being chased by a dog and ran at normal speed for a while, which proved my back really had healed. On the return took yet another stab at #43 and failed again.
Leg 4 - 7 am to noon. Headed south into the hillier section of the map, where controls were relatively close to one another but tended to be in deep ravines. At least I was smart enough not to try this at night. My speed for this leg ended up slowest of all. If I had been in running shape, I could have headed for the comparatively flat and open sections in the middle of the map, where there is a lot of pasture land. With an hour to go I had the option of getting #28 and #14, both of which looked relatively easy, or one final stab at #43. I decided to gamble on the extra one point. Fortunately, in full daylight, this time it wasn't hard. Still had 30+ minutes left but no controls reachable so I called it a day.
Total distance: 46 miles.
How many controls were visited by no one, I wonder? My guess is as many as 8 or 9.
Leg 1 - With no planning time (maps handed out at about 11:52), I just decided to use a 4 hour block to head to the closest corner. I may have been influenced by Mark's lengthy discussion about how the control in that corner was at a convenience store open until 11 pm. A chance for an ice-cold drink on the course! I failed to appreciate the fact that the store was significantly downhill from the start/finish. Bonked about halfway back and ended up 31 minutes late. I felt like I never managed more than a shuffle, but I must have managed some semblance of running to net 19 miles in 4.5 hours. I could have gotten the same number of points in 2/3 the distance if I had turned around sooner, but I was still assuming that all controls were reachable. It turned out that Mark responded to all those Canadian teams who swept the Snowgaine by making this quite unsweepable, both in terms of distance and control placement.
The store was later described as a "sucker control". When I got there, I thought maybe he had arranged for a free coke or something (I did have this happen once, at an event in Ohio). No such luck.
Leg 2 - With a 93 minute penalty, I decided to take my 3 hour block and try to get the nearest 3 controls in 87 minutes. Alas, I only made it to one, wasting nearly all the time on one of the others (#43). My track for this leg looks like a scribble. I must have passed within 20 m of the control four or five times. It was a short, shallow reentrant (almost a point feature) in an otherwise featureless area and I just couldn't spot it in the twilight/darkness.
Leg 3 - Midnight to 4 AM. Physically, I was feeling much better, but a lot of that must have been due to moving at a slower speed. Took another stab at #43 (failed), then did a loop on the west side of the map - not a point-rich area, though. Let frogs guide me into one control next to a pond. Thought I was being chased by a dog and ran at normal speed for a while, which proved my back really had healed. On the return took yet another stab at #43 and failed again.
Leg 4 - 7 am to noon. Headed south into the hillier section of the map, where controls were relatively close to one another but tended to be in deep ravines. At least I was smart enough not to try this at night. My speed for this leg ended up slowest of all. If I had been in running shape, I could have headed for the comparatively flat and open sections in the middle of the map, where there is a lot of pasture land. With an hour to go I had the option of getting #28 and #14, both of which looked relatively easy, or one final stab at #43. I decided to gamble on the extra one point. Fortunately, in full daylight, this time it wasn't hard. Still had 30+ minutes left but no controls reachable so I called it a day.
Total distance: 46 miles.
How many controls were visited by no one, I wonder? My guess is as many as 8 or 9.
Thursday May 10, 2012 #
5 PM
Running 8:00 [2] 1.0 mi (8:00 / mi)
Quarter mile at a time. No pain!
9 PM
Exercises 10:00 [1]
Wednesday May 9, 2012 #
8 AM
Biking 47:50 [3] 11.0 mi (4:21 / mi)
Biked to work and back. First time since 2010, I believe.
Tuesday May 8, 2012 #
7 PM
Exercises 20:00 [3]
Running 8:25 [4] 1.0 mi (8:25 / mi)
shoes: Adidas Rocket
Tried a normal mile. Hurt a lot, alas.