Training Log Archive: cmorse

Afternoon stroll with Anna & Jackson. Lovely day, a tad windy...

Lousy night sleeping. Might have something to do with having a Coke during last nights Radiators Reunion Show broadcast (Night 1 of 3). You'd think I'd know better by now...

Misty rain, mid 30s. Meh...

Just a possibility - https://sites.google.com/site/capecodfrozenfatass/...

C • Sandy Neck 19

Nothing special, lake & back with some 100m pickups towards the end...

grey afternoon, mid 30s. getting away from the desk for a bit

So Jeff Woods (aka Sony) asked if I could put together a 6-hour, 18 mile-ish orienteering course (36 controls) at Case as he is training for an upcoming 10 hour rogaine in West Virginia. Dave Lamb came down from NH to join us. I know I can run 6 hours since I did it a few weeks ago, but I haven't run in terrain in 3 months due to the toe issues. Going 6 hours at Case would definitely be an overly ambitious undertaking.

Have a silicone 'toe condom' which definitely helps on easy graded runs like the fat ass, so I decided to give it a try. Designed the course so that there were a few bailout options in the latter half. Jeff & Dave took it out at a pretty aggressive clip right off the bat and I was working pretty hard to maintain contact given my lack of general fitness right now. Foot felt pretty good though. With my recently upsized shoes, the rear portion of my foot it a bit loose so I may need to get a neoprene ankle brace or something to fill out the volume in the back of my shoe. In the Roclites today, my foot never really felt secure when descending in less than stellar white woods. Rocky areas and marshes also began causing some toe discomfort after the 2 hour mark, though in retrospect, my 'toe condom' was no longer on my toe when I got home, so perhaps it slipped off thus causing increasing issues with the toe.

Anyhow, nailed all the controls, a few of which I've been to before, but mostly new, and mostly in as-of-yet unfield-checked portions of the map, so happy with that. Jeff & Dave a little off on a couple of them, but had there been flags in the open woods it would have been no issue. I had O-Range running and everything was spot on, though I had to pause briefly a couple times to wait for the signal to 'settle' inside the 20m range. Had to manually punch the water tower control since, because of the fence (unmapped as of now) we couldn't get closer than about 40 to the tower.

At control 16 I elected to call it a day - I was still feeling pretty good, but it was a good spot to deviate from the course with minimal offtrail climbing to get back to truck. If I had pushed farther, I'm pretty sure I would have regretted it, plus would have slowed down the other pair.

Would have like to have done the whole thing, but this toe issue it still obviously a problem in an orienteering or trail running context, so will have to bide my time a bit longer and try to maintain some semblance of a base until such time as O becomes comfortable again.

Course Map on O-Range. I'll leave it here and public in case anyone wants to go out and try some or all of it. No flags or streamers out there, but if you use O-Range, you don't need them anyway...

C • Nice 6

Not resting 'from' anything, but rather resting up for something....

C • Isn't 2