Training Log Archive: cedarcreek

I was so sore today. I was awakened by a call at twenty minutes past noon, and I had to roust myself out of bed. I was chafed to within an inch of my life (one of the worst ever for me). After about 5 hours, I finally got cognizant and interested enough to check why my feet were hurting so badly. It felt like blisters all over, but it was just 2 smallish ones.
I figured if I was that bad, Dick must be similar, so around 9pm I called him. He said he was okay, and I said, "I can barely walk", and he said he was the same way.
It seems wrong to call this a rest day, because everything I did today was painful and difficult.

I did a little more thinking about the course and map from yesterday. It's so difficult to get used to AR control locations. One description was "hillside". We attacked it from below (If it's possible to attack with no real attackpoint), and found a bunch of people looking for it. Hearing their troubles, I suggested (almost so everyone could hear): "We attacked it from below and didn't find it. Let's relocate on the road above and attack it. If we don't find it, we leave." I relocated using the dodgy technique of determining the tangent point of the road above the control, which I figure is the only reasonable way to place that control, and didn't find it. (The most correct description would be "Flag in Woods", seriously). Unfortunately, that control was mistakenly not placed, so some teams wasted a lot of time there. We spent about 8 minutes and about 35m of climb, so we got away easy.

Event: Half Moon Upside-Down Rogaine
 

Finished 5 minutes undertime at the rogaine, in a team with Dick Arnett. I'll have more time to study the map later, but I don't see how anyone with our fitness level could have gotten more points than us. The uber-runners almost cleaned the course (missed by 1), so I'm not saying we did well, I'm just saying we did as well as we could have hoped. It's really hard getting use to those maps. 1:24000, 20ft/6m contours, no mapping of runnability, and no corrections to the base. There were errors of fire roads being on the wrong side of streams that caused me minutes of anxiety. Relief is just under 100m. Whew. I drank a little over a gallon, maybe 5 or 5.5 L. Never had to go from 1 hour before to 3 hours after---that's 10 hours. This was my second adventure race, and my second night AR.
Long story short: We had a blast. We'd do it again. I'm so sore I can barely walk. I'm up at 5:37am so I can log it on attackpoint.

Rode around Sharon Woods. I live less than 1 mile from the park, and it's actually a nice place to orienteer, but I never go over there with a map. For one thing, it's hard to get permission for events, and I don't want to do anything to make them mad at Orienteering Cincinnati. I see people in the woods, so I really don't know if it's forbidden. I'm sure I could run mostly on trails and that would be okay.

Anyway, the ride was easier than last time, and I went a liitle faster. The final big hill seemed almost easy (although I didn't push it too hard). My back hurt, so I stopped at the bottom of the big hill and stretched it. Really nice day---very comfortable, not oppressive.

Ran the one-hill route plus the loop around the rec center. With Katie; I slowed her down a lot, which is normal, but this time she had side stitches, and also had me walking maybe 3 times. Nice night to run, cooler than it has been. It's the night for the Perseids, I think, and we saw a big, bright meteor. Not the smaller streaks I'm used to seeing. I worked on taking longer, smoother strides, although coming up the big hill was just itsy-bitsy survival strides. It's supposed to get down to 55F tonight (13C). Sweet. I took Tundra/Desert's advice and bought "Daniel's Running Formula" by Jack Daniels (which makes me smile). What I really need to do is stop eating junk food at work...

Event: Rocky Mountain 1000 Day