Training Log Archive: bgallup

a weird run to work. had a stitch the third step out the door and it stuck with me the whole way. can't say i was sad to see red lights. also, i kept thinking i was going slow (9min/mi) and looked down to see ~8min/mi and 160+bpm. weird. finally managed to rein it in after the two-mile mark. kinda.

been feeling like crap (or more accurately, not crap) gastrointestinally since immediately after the WHNO. i definitely ate a standard ben-bbq serving (read: too much) and then went hard trying to hang on to ian/giacomo/neil's coattails. been feelin' varying levels of nonspecific gut-discomfort since. might've been neil's botulism-special hot-day-in-the-car pizza, but he and JJ were no worse for the wear. must be my fair constitution.

warning, the first sentence of that last paragraph might've been TMI.

i want to write a script that will generate an arbitrary line-o to work/home for a given distance. and spit out a map. between any two points, really. just need to rustle up some intersection/route/length data in a handy form.

C • Warnings... 2

Event: UNO Camping Weekend
 

UNO Pawtuckaway Camping Weekend - Blue Middle

First legit orienteering of the season. Started by going out with the blue ultralong controls. Wasn't helpful.
1) Easy, and moreso the second time around
2) spike
3) Didn't keep good track of distance, thought I had gone far enough - hadn't.
4) spike
5) spike
6) spike
7) pretty much a spike - went straight to the marsh to see if it was worth fording - it wasn't. obviously would've been faster to shoot for the end of it from the start
8) spike
9) standard issue ben catastrophe leg. looks like i went off on a horrible bearing - i've lost my thumb compass, and i had to come to a total stop whenever i wanted a good bearing off the loaner - and i think i wasn't careful coming out of 9. Saw another courses water control near where I expected to find 9 and ran to it, slightly losing contact. Relocated(ish) to the NE, found the bogus control again, relocated to the SE, then worked my way in. Bleh.
10) spike
11) spike
12) spike. had seen it on the way to 5, meant to remember it, didn't remember that until just now.
13) spike
14) spike
15) spike
16) spike
17) spike, got a little hung up in the green
18) started out by charging a control i saw and loosing contact. had to wind a little then reeled it in.
19) a pretty challenging leg, nav-wise, for me. broad and flat. should've been more disciplined
F) heh. not the best route choice, had to cut through the pavilion. spikes on sealed concrete don't work. good at making noise though. fortunately there was a post to grab and skid around the last turn into the finish.

C • Total time 1

UNO Pawtuckaway Camping Weekend - Canoe-O

Pretty much just paddlin' while Ian did the thinking. Think we won this one. I split on first to CP1, where Giacomo and I lost 3-5 minutes learning what canoe-o controls looked like (no flag, hanging off the water, loosely related to the description). Paddled along to three more controls, east across the lake versus a bitchin' crosswind, 3-4 more controls in a loop on the eastern side, skipped the southernmost control and made a dead downwind leg to two more controls. portaged the last control, drove it in, and hustled to the finish. good times.

some people at a boat launch later in the course saw us earlier oh, and told us we were hauling. missed most of their conversation with ian while i punched an inland control, but they sounded impressed. Definitely the fastest I've gone in a canoe - and a faster average speed than I did on the blue middle.

UNO Pawtuckaway Camping Weekend - Wicked Hahd Night O

Almost entirely follow-the-leader behind Ian, Giacomo, and Neil. In a pack with those three plus Giovanni through the first three controls, with Giacomo and Ian to 4, added Neil through 6. For the long (2.3k!) leg to 7 we were partially a group of four, and partially paired off (me with Ian). Gang of four to 9 and 8, then with Ian through to the finish. Neil and Giacomo took another route to the road and got us by about three minutes.

Not a whole lot of orienteering done here, mostly just fighting to keep up with the fast guys and not get ditched in the middle of the woods. It'd be a tough place to navigate alone in. Except for 3, 2, and the really long 6-7 leg i did an acceptable job of staying in rough contact with the map. I was at least taking a bearing and keeping an eye on it while struggling to hang. Added maybe one or two moments of navigational insight and saw three or for reflective markers first (while the others were actually reading maps) - so I wasn't a total parasite. Satisfied to find out that I could pretty well trace out where we had gone. And the torrential rain on the way to 4/5 was an absolutely magnificent moment.


Bonus highlight: Neil and Giacomo split off of Ian and I on the way to 7, going low where we went high. Out of sight, I could hear Neil singing 'you take the high road and I'll take the low road' in an appropriately Irish fashion. Nice touch, that.

Blue middle - Splits

fresh off the computer, the 'best' route for Saturday's rogaine:

click through for the big'un. only thing i disagree with is this route's 41-45-71 in the north-center. that route throws away a lot of elevation only to take it right back - 41-71-45 is smarter and only marginally longer. to be expected, i didn't to squat to compensate for elevation gain.

turns out there are a lot of borderline calls - substantially different routes that are damn near the same length. Certainly nearer in length than I trust the accuracy of my sketched routes. this one adds up to 51.0km, but i wasn't anal about drawing in my guesses for routes. there were at least four more routes that had major differences, but were still within 2k.


and here's joe and jeff versus the computer
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i'll figure out how long the ben-routed course through their choice of CPs is tomorrow.

tail end of the rogaine shenanigans:

'best' = 51.0k
joe/jeff chosen order with 'best' routes: 55.1k
joe/jeff actual: 56k
ben chosen order with 'best' routes: 55.6k
ben actual: way more.

well, my chosen route didn't suck as hard as i thought it did. which is nice.

per usual, too fast. well, more too heart-beaty than too fast. goal was 5mi@ 8:30, and hoping that AHR was closer to 75% (142bpm).

can't find the damn garmin charging cradle. mutter mutter.

superpullups/chinups with nate's 50# kettlebell on a belt of webbing, over the course of the day. read: pullup bar and kettlebell are on the way to/from the can

this 8-hour adventure race in nothern NJ is pretty damn tempting. Only a four hour drive, too. But NOACs are the next week, and I think I'm using up all my frequent adventurer points on that. Next year, then. And this is on top of the Shag being the same weekend as UNO's Pawtuckaway weekend. The scheduling gods are not kind.

C • Last year? 2

crap night out at the gym. cleaned a pile of v2's, talled my way out of one v3. two more v3's that i can do in parts but haven't strung together. low reward for the effort slacklining - bizarrely shitty at first trending to adequate. went back to a total shitshow bouldering and decided to go home before i hurt myself. then i tried one more and tweaked a pulley tendon

did some shitty mental math (12 /= 20) and incorrectly justified re-upping for a three month membership. i'll just have to go lots more to make up for it