Training Log Archive: Len

Event: Crooked Compass Adventure Trek
 

The Crooked Compass Adventure. 9 mandatory controls 45 total - 8 hr time limit.
I really impressed myself by completing this and getting all the controls... and in under 6 1/2 hours... and burned 3100 calories!
I was very tentative going in and figured I would skip a bunch of optional controls. I never used a map at this scale and the detail is less than what I am used to. Yesterday I spent 6 hours in a car coming back from Erie at 10pm and had to turn around and leave a 4:30 this morning. My garmin was being difficult and not giving me direction to the event, it was raining, and my stomach didnt feel right....not a great start.

Thankfully, there was only a little rain throughout the day and nothing distracting or soaking. I almost passed on the first group of optional controls as they were in the opposite direction from the next mandatory control. I'm glad I went for them as I had enough time. Stomach problems the first 2 1/2 hours made me take two bathroom breaks then everything seemed to normalize.

Got to the check-in checkpoint in 3 hours and started the 2nd group of optional controls.

the last 6 optional controls were word descriptions only and the last two were challenging locations. I had at least a 1km lead on anyone behind me leaving F4 and only had 2 controls left. After F6 I was just barely ahead of two teams with 2km to the finish. They quickly passed me as my left knee began to feel very uncomfortable. I walked a 1/2 km and started back into a geriatric jog but 3 more teams passed me before the finish. actually, two of them were just in front of me at the finish (within 10 seconds) I really was not going for placement, I was ecstatic that I finished under 6 /1/2 hrs.

C • Nice!! 8

NOTE on SUPPLIES:
I way over packed.
Took hydration pack with 2 L water and 2 500ml containers on the shoulder strap that had Gatorade
I finished with 0.7 L water and 300ml Gatorade


FOOD - TOOK:
4 Tangerine PowerGels
1 Apricot Cliff Bar
2 Oatmeal Rasin Walnut Cliff Bars
2 Coconut Cashew QuestBars
1 Shot Bloks (full 6)
1 Shot Bloks (only 1 left)
1/2 Fruit Smoothly BowerBar

FOOD - ATE:
2 Tangerine PowerGels
0 Apricot Cliff Bar
1 Oatmeal Rasin Walnut Cliff Bars
1 Coconut Cashew QuestBars
0 Shot Bloks (full 6)
1 Shot Bloks (only 1 left)
0 Fruit Smoothly BowerBar

The cool weather helped lower fluid intake and I made it a point to keep hydrated for the few days leading up to this.
I may have ate more if my stomach was normal in the beginning.

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