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Monday Oct 6, 2014 #
10 AM
Running warm up/down (6 x Grass Laps) 33:21 [1] 3.28 mi (10:11 / mi) +56ft 10:01 / mi
shoes: Adidas adiZero XT
Recovery. Felt about as expected, and it was a good idea. Biking the kids to (done) and from (soon) school feels (like it's doing) good, too. I'm glad I took the day off! It's gorgeous out there.
Saturday Oct 4, 2014 #
7 AM
Running race (Megatransect) 6:47:51 [5] 28.5 mi (14:19 / mi) +6404ft 11:48 / mi
slept:6.0 shoes: Inov-8 Trailroc 245 (1st pair)
Megatransect! 48th of 1000 registrants, unknown number of starters, 637 finishers (7.5%!). 15th of 100 in my age group. I'm very satisfied with this result, particularly with my training level going in, the 5 beers I had Friday night (oops!), and the 6 hours of sleep I got.
It rained Friday night, and was raining for the first couple of hours of the race, so some of the most brutal sections were positively terrifying, particularly the marble rock field, and pretty much any rocky downhill (leaves, wet lichen, mediocre visibility). And the 'rockiness' was shocking! I have never tried to run on stuff like that before, but I kept thinking "this is a really, really bad idea", particularly as my response time and strength deteriorated past the first half.
Happily, the second half was a good bit less rocky, and it had partially dried out by then, too.
I don't know what the % was, but it certainly felt like over 50% was terrible footing. At least time-wise. Ouch! Two scary falls, one in the marble boulders, one on a downhill rock section, a few scrapes but no broken or dislocated anything. That I can feel yet, anyway. Whew!
New shoes (Inov-8 Trailroc 245s) performed very, very well given the conditions. For the wet conditions, spikes (Oroc) would have been better from aid station #1 (4 miles?) through #5 (24 miles?), with flats for the of the asphalt, grass, and easy trails. Now I know. Hah! But the rock plate in the 245s was critical, allowing me to make some good headway downhill on the first half. Wish the toe bumpers were a bit more beefy, particularly over my poor pinky toe, and that the arch sole extended a bit further up the inside of the shoe ... I had a few distractingly-painful rock jabs there.
I think the watch-measured (and AP/Google adjusted) climb is a bit short, but whatever, it wasn't really the climb, it was the brutality of the rocks, and the slippery conditions.
GREAT to see a few Wissahickon Wanderers: Chris, Chris's dad (!), Polly, Noah, and Sean, as well as Randy Hall! Way to go Randy!
It rained Friday night, and was raining for the first couple of hours of the race, so some of the most brutal sections were positively terrifying, particularly the marble rock field, and pretty much any rocky downhill (leaves, wet lichen, mediocre visibility). And the 'rockiness' was shocking! I have never tried to run on stuff like that before, but I kept thinking "this is a really, really bad idea", particularly as my response time and strength deteriorated past the first half.
Happily, the second half was a good bit less rocky, and it had partially dried out by then, too.
I don't know what the % was, but it certainly felt like over 50% was terrible footing. At least time-wise. Ouch! Two scary falls, one in the marble boulders, one on a downhill rock section, a few scrapes but no broken or dislocated anything. That I can feel yet, anyway. Whew!
New shoes (Inov-8 Trailroc 245s) performed very, very well given the conditions. For the wet conditions, spikes (Oroc) would have been better from aid station #1 (4 miles?) through #5 (24 miles?), with flats for the of the asphalt, grass, and easy trails. Now I know. Hah! But the rock plate in the 245s was critical, allowing me to make some good headway downhill on the first half. Wish the toe bumpers were a bit more beefy, particularly over my poor pinky toe, and that the arch sole extended a bit further up the inside of the shoe ... I had a few distractingly-painful rock jabs there.
I think the watch-measured (and AP/Google adjusted) climb is a bit short, but whatever, it wasn't really the climb, it was the brutality of the rocks, and the slippery conditions.
GREAT to see a few Wissahickon Wanderers: Chris, Chris's dad (!), Polly, Noah, and Sean, as well as Randy Hall! Way to go Randy!