Training Log Archive: Tyrannosaurus

Event: 2018 Rocky Mountain Orienteering Festival
 

Thoughts: "wow this is going to be hard"

So many things. First of all, if you read Bridge's log, she recently warned that altitude is a thing. But I'm here to tell y'all again that ALTITUDE REALLY IS A THING FOLKS. Today's race was about at 8600ft. That's pretty freaking high. So this race today was much physically much harder than it should have been. Ah well. We'll see how I feel at the end of the week (probably even more tired).
Speaking of challenging, today's terrain wasn't much of a navigational challenge. Super open. A fun course, no doubt, but little challenge. But Alex has warned me that last time she was here, the forested areas required some focus, especially after transitioning from the open grassland.
About 2/3 of the way through the course, some guy passed me since I took an extended break at the water control, and told me to make sure to navigate and not just follow everyone else (it was a mass start). -_-
By the second to last control, I could feel a blister on my L foot forming. Ouch. Took off my shoe right away after finishing. It's looking pretty gnarly right now. My new shoes are gorgeous but they certainly need some breaking in.
I was the first woman finisher, winning me a L t-shirt. Ebone took the M size, but he was the overall winner, so he's justified.
Side note: Tonight I joined Cooking With Alex, and it's 10/10. If you ever get the chance to be her sous chef, do it.

C • L shirt 2

Laying down in the grass with the sky and the sun and the breeze felt amazing

C • Altitude 4

C • new shoes 1

First 2/3 of the ride before my watch died.

Estimating the rest, of which a big portion was up a giant hill.

Little ski with my dad while my mom rode alongside. Being home with the parents means quality cross training, which is a good time. Rest week is over; I'm itching to do things!

Considerably better than how I was expecting this to go. Somehow I didn't lose all of my upper body strength?
Side note: SBP changed their color scheme, and they're in the middle of the transition right now, so I have no idea what level any of the routes I did were. So maybe this actually didn't go better than expected. Hmm

C • new colors 2

A little smoky here in WA too. Spent the day unpacking, taking care of various things on my to-do, and relaxing with the family. This week is going to be very low key before RMOF, and then getting back into the swing of things once I'm back in Boston the following week.

Made it back to WA safe and sound. Glad to be out of the BC smoke.

C • Home 2