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Saturday Oct 25, 2014 #
Event: Orienteering Ottawa Rogaine
Event: OOC 2014 ROGAINE
9 AM
orienteering race 7:48:00 [3] *** 20.52 km (22:48 / km) +1200m 17:39 / km
33c shoes: New Balance AT626
ROGAINE 8h
Camp Fortune, Gatineau QC
60.8% 10/23 2/4masters
31, 49, 57, 71, 37, 47, 42, 45, 83, 87, 78, 69, 79, 65, 80, 41, 75, 72, 62, 38, 48, 53, 39, 58, 61, 43, 36, 59, 34, 30, 33, 35, 32
This was my first ever ROGAINE event and I'm honoured that Rorry invited me.
I'm hesitant to log the placings because all the credit goes to Rorry, my teammate. He designed the route we followed. He pulled me to a higher placing than I would normally get. I brought him down to a lower placing. Except for my seeing many controls before he did and for my minimal downhill dirt road running in the final hour, Rorry was in front the whole 8 hours. However, because he forced me to keep up such a strong pace, I'm quite comfortable logging the whole effort in the cardio zone.
A day later, it is now difficult to remember the early control adventures. For the sake of pain after the event, I covered the course in running stride even though I continually fell behind Rorry's walking stride pace. From the moment we left the lodge, Rorry learned that I wasn't in better shape as he had assumed. Even at the first control, my knee was unhappy with descents which included a 1m straight drop.
Much of the day was a glorified trail run on trails I once knew intimately. I am so thankful we used trails. However, even trails can be hard to spot once all the leaves are on the ground. From 45 to 83, I had us go up the wrong trail, then to return and run right past the nearly invisible intersection until hitting no-go zone.
By far, our worst mistake was finding 65 which we could have avoided from the start by reading control desciption: bend in stream. Rorry was up high on reentrants and I was up above Rorry. Having decided to cave, we walked by control on way out.
As we entered target circles, I often went wide of Rorry's attack and used long looks for easy to spot flags. This attack of controls worked well for us even if we weren't side by side. It was nice to know that there were no distracting controls from other courses.
By 2h in the race, we knew that clearing the map was not an option. No team cleared the map. During the pre-race map exam, we planned to miss controls 68 and 46. When we headed back north to Kingsmere, it was obvious we would not visit the north side of the map which was apparently new and exciting control locations.
By the 8th hour, Rorry had too much confidence in my micro-navigation suggestions. Leaving 36 for 59, the objective was a feature crossing Lac Fortune which I'd imagined was a beaver dam. I mistakenly took us NNW instead of NE and we basically waded to the parkway, 200m west of where should have been. From that swim, it was then a vertical climb of 400m.
There are no blisters on my feet, probably minimized by the ice water wading in the final hour. My only chafing is where I sit, very strange.
I suspect that our true distance travelled was over 36k. I have conservatively guessed at the climb.
From the training, I packed just the right amount of calories: four Cliff bars and two Power gels, all different flavours. Having not expected to be pulled along at such a high pace (even though temps were below 14° and drizzle), I drank more than 2L of water before 5.5h. At water station 2, control 62, finding no cups, I now knew the etiquette: steal the water for my CamelBak at next water station. Rorry seemed to carry on with no hydrating so I could easily have used some of his water.
Camp Fortune, Gatineau QC
60.8% 10/23 2/4masters
31, 49, 57, 71, 37, 47, 42, 45, 83, 87, 78, 69, 79, 65, 80, 41, 75, 72, 62, 38, 48, 53, 39, 58, 61, 43, 36, 59, 34, 30, 33, 35, 32
This was my first ever ROGAINE event and I'm honoured that Rorry invited me.
I'm hesitant to log the placings because all the credit goes to Rorry, my teammate. He designed the route we followed. He pulled me to a higher placing than I would normally get. I brought him down to a lower placing. Except for my seeing many controls before he did and for my minimal downhill dirt road running in the final hour, Rorry was in front the whole 8 hours. However, because he forced me to keep up such a strong pace, I'm quite comfortable logging the whole effort in the cardio zone.
A day later, it is now difficult to remember the early control adventures. For the sake of pain after the event, I covered the course in running stride even though I continually fell behind Rorry's walking stride pace. From the moment we left the lodge, Rorry learned that I wasn't in better shape as he had assumed. Even at the first control, my knee was unhappy with descents which included a 1m straight drop.
Much of the day was a glorified trail run on trails I once knew intimately. I am so thankful we used trails. However, even trails can be hard to spot once all the leaves are on the ground. From 45 to 83, I had us go up the wrong trail, then to return and run right past the nearly invisible intersection until hitting no-go zone.
By far, our worst mistake was finding 65 which we could have avoided from the start by reading control desciption: bend in stream. Rorry was up high on reentrants and I was up above Rorry. Having decided to cave, we walked by control on way out.
As we entered target circles, I often went wide of Rorry's attack and used long looks for easy to spot flags. This attack of controls worked well for us even if we weren't side by side. It was nice to know that there were no distracting controls from other courses.
By 2h in the race, we knew that clearing the map was not an option. No team cleared the map. During the pre-race map exam, we planned to miss controls 68 and 46. When we headed back north to Kingsmere, it was obvious we would not visit the north side of the map which was apparently new and exciting control locations.
By the 8th hour, Rorry had too much confidence in my micro-navigation suggestions. Leaving 36 for 59, the objective was a feature crossing Lac Fortune which I'd imagined was a beaver dam. I mistakenly took us NNW instead of NE and we basically waded to the parkway, 200m west of where should have been. From that swim, it was then a vertical climb of 400m.
There are no blisters on my feet, probably minimized by the ice water wading in the final hour. My only chafing is where I sit, very strange.
I suspect that our true distance travelled was over 36k. I have conservatively guessed at the climb.
From the training, I packed just the right amount of calories: four Cliff bars and two Power gels, all different flavours. Having not expected to be pulled along at such a high pace (even though temps were below 14° and drizzle), I drank more than 2L of water before 5.5h. At water station 2, control 62, finding no cups, I now knew the etiquette: steal the water for my CamelBak at next water station. Rorry seemed to carry on with no hydrating so I could easily have used some of his water.
Wednesday Oct 22, 2014 #
7 PM
Running 35:00 [3] 5.31 km (6:35 / km)
shoes: New Balance MT610BB3
I quit the group run at the 4k mark. My knee gave out during my second 3k hike with the dog this afternoon. I couldn't maintain the pace tonight. My left calf is now real tight, as it was after last week's Wednesday run. Committing so much to the 4h workouts, my speed has suffered and the pace at mid-week running group is more than my body can handle. Let's hope my left leg is ready for the ROGAINE. My cardio and endurance investment should be there, if I haven't beat up my body too much getting to the start line.
Tuesday Oct 21, 2014 #
basic 15:00 [1]
Monday Oct 20, 2014 #
basic 6:00 [1]
M is home!!!