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Sunday Apr 24, 2011 #
11 AM
O race (Easter Frazzle Day 2) 1:17:16 *** 6.06 km (12:45 / km) +239m 10:39 / km
ahr:165 max:186 spiked:9/13c shoes: Asics Trabuco 11 WR
Bad start, attempting to figure my way along the rocks, instead of sucking up the climb of going the sensible way. After that, determined to have a plan for the route between controls with nice big handholds along the way and use attackpoints. Yes, attackpoints! Where I really committed to doing this and sucked up the extra distance (2,8,9,10), I have much better splits. Will do even more of this tomorrow.
Also had a rough time with numbers 7 (rocky hillside from the top - came down too far to the right and didn't spot the good attackpoint on the map until after I'd spent a bit of time bouncing around the bottoms of various boulders) and number 13 (pushed too low scrambling through the green, took a while to figure out exactly where I was, and then lacked energy or enthusiasm for bashing through any more green, so went via the track to the next granite surface) Slow from 13-14, but that was entirely about my anxiety about falling on those steeper slopes. Raised a trot all the way to the finish from there and came a very surprising 10th on that split.
Spent a lot of time today bouncing off my fitness limitations and having to walk, even when I knew exactly where I was and the runnability was excellent.
One fall today - feet slid out from underneath me on a downhill and landed on back in lovely soft mulch. Saw a lot of falls today - some of them looked very painful!
Also had a rough time with numbers 7 (rocky hillside from the top - came down too far to the right and didn't spot the good attackpoint on the map until after I'd spent a bit of time bouncing around the bottoms of various boulders) and number 13 (pushed too low scrambling through the green, took a while to figure out exactly where I was, and then lacked energy or enthusiasm for bashing through any more green, so went via the track to the next granite surface) Slow from 13-14, but that was entirely about my anxiety about falling on those steeper slopes. Raised a trot all the way to the finish from there and came a very surprising 10th on that split.
Spent a lot of time today bouncing off my fitness limitations and having to walk, even when I knew exactly where I was and the runnability was excellent.
One fall today - feet slid out from underneath me on a downhill and landed on back in lovely soft mulch. Saw a lot of falls today - some of them looked very painful!