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Saturday Jan 17, 2015 #
Event: Snowshoe Raid Adventure Run
11 AM
Orienteering 2:50:09 [3] 11.47 km (14:50 / km)
Snowshoe Raid with Mrs. Tiny. We actually thought we had a pretty good plan going into this but having read some other reports and now seen the results, I can see that our route choice was overly conservative and not particularly strategic!
Fairly quickly we decided against going up by 48, so we planned a route that would try to capitalize on some of the other high pointers, like 63-64, the 57-56 pair, and a few of other 20-pointers along the way. As always, there were some adjustments on course so we ended up doing 42, 43, 64, 63 to start. Our plan after 63 was to go to 55, but we ended up following the wrong streambed and ended up coming out on the road at the aid station. So we modified our initial plan and went from 54 to 56, then 57, then 55 and took the snowmobile trail back down towards 54 and the road. We didn't want to miss 41, so took off our snowshoes for a road run down to that and with 30 minutes still left, heading up the snowmobile trail to get 44. In hindsight, I am sure we would have gone up to get 48 as it doesn't sound as bad as we thought it would be, and we would have tried to make greater use of the trails that were more packed down, as we ended up breaking trail a few times which was really slow going.
Oh well! It was a lovely day out in the woods with great company and it was really fun to be somewhere different for this race.
Fairly quickly we decided against going up by 48, so we planned a route that would try to capitalize on some of the other high pointers, like 63-64, the 57-56 pair, and a few of other 20-pointers along the way. As always, there were some adjustments on course so we ended up doing 42, 43, 64, 63 to start. Our plan after 63 was to go to 55, but we ended up following the wrong streambed and ended up coming out on the road at the aid station. So we modified our initial plan and went from 54 to 56, then 57, then 55 and took the snowmobile trail back down towards 54 and the road. We didn't want to miss 41, so took off our snowshoes for a road run down to that and with 30 minutes still left, heading up the snowmobile trail to get 44. In hindsight, I am sure we would have gone up to get 48 as it doesn't sound as bad as we thought it would be, and we would have tried to make greater use of the trails that were more packed down, as we ended up breaking trail a few times which was really slow going.
Oh well! It was a lovely day out in the woods with great company and it was really fun to be somewhere different for this race.
Thursday Jan 15, 2015 #
Yoga (Other) 10:00 [1]
Caron Shepley's "Happy Hips" sequence on YouTube.
5 PM
Strength Training 30:00 [3]
Wednesday Jan 14, 2015 #
6 PM
Running 30:00 [2]
Monday Jan 12, 2015 #
6 AM
Yoga (hot) 1:00:00 [1]
Sunday Jan 11, 2015 #
11 AM
Snowshoeing 2:00:00 [2]
Mrs. Tiny and I met at Puslinch with snowshoes and the o-cup map from November in hand to get some practice in for next weekend. We didn't really need the snowshoes but it was fun to have them on and there was enough snow off trail to justify them. We had a great time passing the map back and forth and alternating leading to the CPs. We tried to avoid major trails and go off-trail as much as possible. We reminisced about controls messed up at the race and managed to make a few bobbles today as well, which hopefully got (some of) them out of our systems. It was a glorious day to be out with perfect temperatures, a nice warm sun and no wind. I twisted Mrs. Tiny's arm into making a pit stop at the Old Marina for beer and fish and chips afterwards.