Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 31 days ending 2008-05-31:
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Friday May 30 | ||
| Note | |
| Head is still spinning from last night's Lost.
Yeah. | ||
Wednesday May 28 | ||
| Note | |
| 1) Frustrated with volleyball. Summer season starts in two weeks, and only 3 of the 5 of us from the spring league could commit to the summer, which isn't that bad, because it's a 4's league in the summer. But... one of those 3 decided to form his own team, and he took two of the guys I had already talked to about joining my team for the summer. so now it's just Gina and me, and we need to find two more players asap.
2) I might run home from work some day. It'd be around 10.5 to 11 miles, depending on route. What's really tempting about the route is that it sounds like a hit list of Seattle. The route would include: - Elliot Bay waterfront - Seattle Aquarium - Through the Pike Place Market - The Space Needle and Seattle Center* - Lake Union Waterfront - Across the Fremont Bridge - Through Fremont and the Lenin Statue - The Zoo. * The Seattle Center route isn't the most optimum... | ||
Tuesday May 27 | ||
| Note | |
| Went to the pub
2 points = beer + pizza | ||
Monday May 26 | ||
| Other 4:00:00 [1] | |
| Yard Work. (time is approximate)
I'm going to log this, because it really wore me out. We don't have a yard per se, but we have terraced garden plots with all sorts of flowers, shrubs, roses, vines, etc. And with a busy schedule and roommates who never do yardwork, I spent most of my Memorial Day attacking giant weeds and vines. Some of the weeds were over 3' tall and over 1" in diameter. I had to yank out a bunch of those. I just used my muscles and pulled, man. I weeded about half of the yard (we have a lot), and then I decided to turn my attention to the huge tangled mess of vines growing near the garage. Last summer, the wisteria started grabbing hold of the railing and going nuts, plus winding its way through other shrubs. I trimmed it back a little bit last year, but this year I wanted to take it out, mafia style. I grabbed pruners and shears and a saw, and I went at it... After several hours, four vine species, one beehive, and three yard waste bins later, the thing was relatively subdued. Lots of pulling, tugging, uprooting, shearing, and sawing.... The wisteria is clipped back into just a few vines. The vine with the waxy, serrated leaves still has some leaves, and several vines left. I haven't decided what I'm going to do with it. I guess we'll wait and see what grows and what doesn't. I have no idea what happened to the purple flower vine. It had to come from somewhere, but now that all of the flowers are gone, I can't tell which is which. I think there was a fourth species in there, too, and that one I think is gone. Oh, and I discovered that we have a water faucet outside now! I guess I'll just wait and see what grows into what. At least they won't be as aggressive for a while. In the meantime, I'm training the Azalea to grow into an open space I cleared for it. | ||
Sunday May 25 | ||
| Note | |
| Please don't see the new Indiana Jones movie. It's horrible. | ||
| C • 79% on Rotten Tomatoes 4 | ||
Saturday May 24 | ||
| Note | |
| Garmin Connect website is down, so I can't link yet.
26.9 km, but 10 minutes late (-125). I probably could have pulled off the route solo, but it would have been close. I think we finished with 645 points, which I think was third overall, behind the Nerds and Swiss Miss. Bad things: losing 3 minutes at the sponsor controls because they didn't have things displayed properly. Good things: the weather (!), the company, and completely messing with Roger! | ||
| Street Scramble race 3:09:57 [4]** 26.9 km (7:04 / km) | |
| shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Copied from the Street Scramble Forum...
770 points, 16.7 miles... but we were 10 minutes late. 645 points instead. Here's the GPS tracklog: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/114297 (The Garmin 405 just came out, so the online software is still a bit glitchy. The distance and tracklog are correct, but the elevation gain and pace-per-duration chart are not. I also forgot to turn off the stopwatch for a few minutes, so the time recorded is longer than actual.) It'd been almost two years since the original REACH Hi-Liters teamed up, and it led to a rather successful event. Nick and I logged 16.7 miles, one mile longer than any previous Street Scramble I've done, including ones I've run solo. We had an efficient route, and we executed well. In general, we paced well. But... we just ran out of gas in the last 50 minutes. 1st place overall was in our grasp... but we missed it. In route-planning, the only obvious skips were the NE-most (37, 41, 51). #33 and #36 were trap checkpoints, behind the highway and without good access. #56 was tempting but just too far out of the way, especially with that tiny out of bounds area. In fact, that out of bounds really impeded efficiency. We ended up getting #36 because the out of bounds forced us to a more northern route. #38 was going to be our bonus near the end if we had more time... and obviously we didn't. We cleared everything else, in two loops: a northern and a southern. #11 was first, and we made sure to get out ahead to avoid crowds. Then over to #26, and then #25, #24, and #12. Basically, we were just laddering our way up the hill, from checkpoint to checkpoint. Team Mergeo Swiss Miss pulled ahead from us after #12, as I had to stop and stretch a bit. After #54 and #13, we caught ended up passing Swiss Miss at #23 as Nick was able to snag the answer super-quick! Ran with Swiss Miss to #45 and then toward #22. I tricked Roger a bit by spying the answer to #22 from the street corner. He thought I saw the answer on the light pole on the corner, when I was actually looking right past the light pole and to the light post! We picked up 90 seconds on them here. We also cut some distance by running through the strip mall parking lot on the way to the freeway overpass. While waiting for several lights to get to #55, Swiss Miss once again caught up, but headed north to #36. We wouldn't see them again. After snagging #55, we went across the street and ducked inside a medical building, found a water fountain, and downed some ClifShots. After #21, we tried to find a way through to the west, but we didn't. The out of bounds forced us north, so we picked up #36, which was a bit tricky, as one hydrant was hiding behind the other! We hit #36 at the one hour mark, 5.3 miles in. Then off into suburbia and picked up #44, #31, and #42. Some people sitting out on their back deck saw us and surmised that we must be doing a scavenger hunt thing. The downhill shady stretches of running were especially nice. Ran into Teriyaki Donut at #42. #34 was the long leg, and we intermixed some running and walking. Probably could have used a bit more running here, but we didn't think that we'd be late yet. Saw Ambiguously Disgruntled right before #34. More downhill running to #53. We were approaching the two hour mark, so we were looking for water. Just past #53, there was a service station with a water spigot outside. We scooped up some water and more ClifShots. We had an hour to go before embarking on our second, but shorter loop. At two hours, we'd gone 10.6 miles. Took a leisurely pace up to #32, waiting for our ClifShots to kick in. However, on the way to #16, we weren't feeling the extra jolt yet. #16 was a rough leg, and then we had problems at #52, as there was no apparent answer on the north side of the building. We ran all over the outside of the YMCA, before decided to run inside and ask. We did, and they told us the answer, but not after losing 2:25. We had similar issues with #46. From the map, it was obvious that it was the Costco, but there's wasn't a tent anywhere. We hesitated a lot, trying to determine whether we should head to the entrance without there being a tent, or look for tents elsewhere. Turns out, the answer was exactly where it was supposed to be, but without a tent there! From the lost time, it was now certain that we were going to be late, but we were bonking, so it was hard to make up the time. At least it was downhill to #43, #28, and #15. And then flat to finish up with #27, #35, and #14. We finished 12:57 late, but we got 3 minutes back due to the lost time at the YMCA and Costco checkpoints. The second loop was a tough strategy, as it was hard to just cut your losses and head back. Once we got to the YMCA, we needed to go all the way around. Studying the map, a better option might have been cutting out 22-55-21-36, and adding 33 and maybe 38. Net loss is 60 or 90 points, but it saves at least a mile. It's funny that three of the most experienced teams bungled away the overall win. We came in 10 minutes late. The Nerds missed a question and came in 2 minutes late. And Swiss Miss missed a question, too! Turns out that none of us get the win! Still, it was a fun day and awesome weather! Thanks to everyone for putting on the event! | ||
| C • Actually... 1 | ||
Wednesday May 21 | ||
| Note | |
| Just found out that I've been asked to support the folks in Charleston, SC for 11 days in June. Considering my busy summer schedule, the trip isn't a huge impact. I'll have to miss the Port Orchard Street Scramble, and I'll miss two softball doubleheaders (40% of the regular season). Hopefully it'll rain for softball so I'll get to make it up. Oh, and two weeks of the summer volleyball season. I'll be back in Seattle for July 4th and the REACH event that I'm leading. Oh, I will likely fly out to South Carolina just 8 hours after landing from Tahoe. | ||
| Orienteering race 11:44 [5]*** 1.8 km (6:31 / km) | |
| spiked:11/11c shoes: GoLite Spike Tail | ||
| Course #3 at Robinswood Park.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/105347 Damp weather. One of my better runs on a fairly easy course. Super-spiked the first six (I wasn't even distracted by the porno rack dumped by #6). Lost about 3 seconds in hesitating on my way to #7. Spiked #8, exited through some thorns on the way out. Hesitated for a few seconds in the control circle at #9, and again on the exit (maybe 5 seconds total). Spiked the rest. I lost more time fumbling with punching than I did with navigation errors, route choice errors, and hesitations combined. My time was the fastest by 90 seconds until the last two runners (Eric and Will), both of whom beat me by 30 seconds or so. | ||
| Orienteering race 10:27 [5]*** 1.4 km (7:28 / km) | |
| spiked:11/11c shoes: GoLite Spike Tail | ||
| Course #2 at Robinswood Park
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/105348 I thought this one was tougher than Course #3, as the route choices were trickier, and there were a couple of legs that could get you "stuck". Super-spiked the first two, even though #2 ended up being hung 20m off. Lost a second or two on #3, as I headed to the wrong corner of the shed. Hugged the ballfield and went under the scoreboard to #4... not a horrible route-choice, actually, except I face-planted out there somewhere. #5 was downhill and fast. #6 was uphill and slow. #7 was an interesting route choice. Either choice is about the same distance wise (my way looks slightly shorter), but the other way saved climb. #7 to #8 was weird. Scott went the best way without cutting through the woods. I went a longer way, but I wanted to at least look at how the woods were going to be... and decided not to bash through. #8 to #9. I couldn't find the short-cut trail (overgrown?), so I went longer around. It felt inefficient, but it probably wasn't. #9 to #10 was the tricky one. I got caught by the off-leash dog pen, and there wasn't a gap between that area and the woods... so I hopped the fence into the dog area, ran across, and hopped out. The hopping out took a few attempts! #11 to finish was tricky for Scott. He got sucked into the courtyard of that building, and I almost did. Scott finished about a minute behind me. | ||
| Orienteering race 4:12 [5]*** 0.64 km (6:34 / km) | |
| spiked:7/7c shoes: GoLite Spike Tail | ||
| Course #1 at Robinswood Park
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/105349 Ran the short course last. Nice run around the lake. One of the controls was hung on the infamous boulder from last year. This time, it was hung high enough to see when approaching. | ||
Tuesday May 20 | ||
| Volleyball 1:45:00 [2] | |
| Volleyball tournament.
4 teams, best-of-three games to 20, double elimination (rounds, not games). Played the #1 seed. Lost twice. Played the #3 seed, lost twice. Though, the second game was pretty close. We were eliminated. However, the #1 vs. #2 game went three games, so we kept scrimmaging with the #3 seed until they were done. And then during the next round, we played the #2 seed during their bye (they beat the #1 seed). We played them until the #1 seed beat the #3 seed in the loser's bracket. Had a few good hits, missed some. Serves were erratic again. My favorite play was when I went up for a power spike, and then dinked it over the guy. | ||
Sunday May 18 | ||
| Note | |
| Sages have been stomped. Ankle did really, really well in the sprint, but was just ok in the middle. It was also fine during the long... I forgot to wear thick socks or add an extra insert in my new shoes, so my right foot was sloppy in the shoe, and I wore a blister, which meant for walking a lot of uphills. I also lacked sufficient speed and strength for the middle and long runs.
50 controls over 3 races, and I had significant errors on 4 of them. The rest were decent (sometimes just plain slow) or pinballed a little bit. I lost 5-6 minutes on my bad one during the sprint. Almost 8 minutes on one in the middle, and I lost close to 20 minutes on two back-to-back controls in the long (doing so well for 75% of the course, and then BAM!). That said, it was a fantastic weekend all around. Great weather and awesome terrain. Biggest injury: getting speared in the sternum by a downed tree. Not good. | ||
| Orienteering race 2:58:02 [3]*** 13.2 km (13:29 / km) | |
| spiked:14/20c shoes: GoLite Spike Tail | ||
| Long at Sage Stomp
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/96793 Did fairly well for the first 90%, then I boomed two in a row rather horribly. Not enough speed/strength out there running, plus I was rubbing a blister with my new shoes, so that slowed down all of my uphills (boooo!). Did ok with #1 and #2, at least to keep Zbynek behind me. #3 was short, but a steep climb, so I scouted out the rest of the course as I plowed up the hill. Too bad I plowed up there and got confused. I lost 1-2 minutes up there. Pinballed my way into #4, got my way to #5 ok, hunted in the circle a bit for the right depression... Did #7 alright, super steep downhill, and the ankle was fine. Had some water + Clif Shot while chatting with Magnus here, who was taking photos. Did #8 ok, too. Got turned around on #9. I hit the fence, and then re-attacked fine. Zbynek was right behind me here. At least I held him off for 9 controls! He followed me a ways to #10, but then he disappeared. I went out to the open area and around. Very fun run. I thought I executed it well, but Zbynek arrived at #10 just a few seconds ahead of me, not exactly sure what he did here. My approach to #11 was good, but I got pulled over by something else. I thought Zbynek was looking in the wrong spot (he was right). He was gone for (seemingly) good. Thomas (the winner) passed me on the way to #12. I tried to keep up with his forest pace for a while. I wasn't as graceful swooshing through the woods, and I ran into a sapling. Whoops. #13 was a super long leg (2.5 km), and I walked the entire thing, as it was uphill the whole way. I wanted to run, but I was getting tired, and the blister on my right heel was screaming with all of that uphill. I tried to be like Sharon Crawford with a super fast walk, no stops, and a super efficient route. It worked, as I pulled ahead of Zbynek again with about 10% of the leg to go. And then I missed the flag, and overran by about 50m. Zbynek and I were even again. Zbynek, Nikolay, and I hit #14 alright, and those guys blew ahead of me to #15, but Nikolay boomed #15, and I didn't, so I pulled ahead of him again. Then I took a really dumb route choice to #16, which was slow, and I made a sizeable mistake, and by the time I found #16, I was so screwed up that I made a colossal mistake on a 175m leg, which took me 14 minutes. Then I made an inefficient route choice to #18. After that, I was fine, but embarrassed from my back-to-back mega mistakes. I was happy with everything else, considering... I think I nipped Benoit again by a couple of minutes. | ||
Saturday May 17 | ||
| Orienteering 27:39 [4]*** 2.5 km (11:04 / km) | |
| spiked:10/12c shoes: GoLite Spike Tail | ||
| Sprint at the Sage Stomp
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/96790 Finally awesome to get out orienteering again! And at a decent speed. My ankle did really well. I was really impressed! I nailed the first four. I nailed #5, too, but that was a long leg and I didn't have enough juice. #6 was sloppy, and I was too careful not to get too soggy (didn't want a wet, muddy ankle brace). #7 was fine. And then a 5-6 minute mistake on #8 killed me. I was cruising along too easily and lost focus. I first got confused what trail I was on, and then looked too far ahead to the next batch of boulders. And then I saw another flag on an even farther boulder. And then I realized what I had done, and backtracked. Got #9 and #10 easily. I was confused at #11, as there was a huge puddle in the ski trail (wide trail) that looked just like some of the mapped ponds. I lost a few seconds here trying to figure that out. Ryan Breseman and I were virtually even (I was probably a bit faster) on all controls except two: he was 5 minutes faster on #8, and I was one minute faster on #10. | ||
| Orienteering race 1:16:26 [3]*** 5.1 km (14:59 / km) | |
| shoes: GoLite Spike Tail | ||
| Middle at Sage Stomp
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/96791 Chase starts from the earlier sprint. I was in 2nd to last place, starting 45 seconds ahead of Benoit. I bounced into #1 ok, spiked #2, though access ended up being easier from the other side, so Benoit passed me soon after on the way to #3. And then I got really turned around by #4. Probably lost 7+ minutes on this one. Too many depressions in there. I tried relocating, but I had trouble with the large logged area... was it just off the map? New since the map was made? Eventually I figured it out... I figured Benoit was way ahead now. Bounced into #5 ok, missed to the west just a bit, though. Tried to cut through the woods to #6, then backed out to the trail, much faster. Found #7 reasonably well. I was convinced that I was screwing up #8... I really didn't know where I was going, plus there were a bunch of others on different courses flailing around out there. I actually hit this one spot on... but I was slow about it. Pace-counting would have made me more confident here. Same for #9 through #12. I didn't have any major issues (except for getting stabbed in the chest), but I was going a lot slower than I should have been. Also due to general fatigue and not being strong/fast enough. #13 was a good leg, I was confident because I had a nice backstop feature. #14 was the same as #6, so I plowed out to the trail as fast as I could. I missed too far to the right, but I was kinda aiming that way, anyway. #15 was back in the sprint-o terrain. On the way to #16, I realized that Benoit was actually behind me and catching up (he made a bigger mistake on #4 than I did). He passed me after #16, and he dragged me over to the wrong control on the way to #17. He was still in front of me leaving #17, and we both were on the trail looking at the maps. He actually stopped in front of me, and I ran into him, and then passed him. I ran around to #18, using the trail and open land. He tried to cut shorter going through rough open. By the time I got to 18, I was about 10 seconds ahead, so I knew that I could handle him in the chute. That was a fun finish! | ||
Tuesday May 13 | ||
| Volleyball 2:00:00 [2] | |
| shoes: Pearl Izumi SyncroFloat | ||
| Volleyball...
0-6, but we only had 4 people. Our first game was the best, losing to one of the top teams only 25-19. I got lots of reps at serve and hitting, and I could tell that my accuracy/focus was off in the last few games (I was also really hungry, so that didn't help, either). Man, when my jump serves are on, they are on. It's definitely the strongest part of my game. My hitting was ok, but again, late in the day, I was missing them long or into the net (not enough focus). My passing and setting was decent. Oh, and I had one really good block and several digs. | ||
Monday May 12 | ||
| Softball 1:15:00 [1] | |
| Softball...
We won 11-8, and I recorded the whole game on my GPS. Which was lame, because I only hit 1-for-4, and on that hit, I was thrown out at 2nd on the next play. Not only was a 1-for-4, but I also choked. First, I left a runner stranded at 3rd base with two outs. And then I left the bases loaded with two outs! Except for one at-bat, I was aiming them where I wanted, but I wasn't getting enough lift. I hit a line drive that the pitcher caught, and another well-hit ground ball that the pitcher knocked down and eventually threw me out. They were giving me a huge hole in center field... I pitched 3 innings, fairly decently. They scored 4 runs in one inning, but 3 of those were from a 2-out error... I threw out two grounders, and while I was at catcher, I caught a pop-up and tagged a runner out at the plate (kudos to Matt for the heads-up throw). The team had two web gems in the 7th to seal the win. Thomas and Joe had back-to-back diving catches. Whew! Alex had 4 more RBI and we're now tied for 1st place, at 2-1. | ||
Saturday May 10 | ||
| Street Scramble race 3:44:01 [2]** 19.65 km (11:24 / km) | |
| shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Gina and I did the 4-hour option of the Vancouver USA Ramble, which is basically like a Street Scramble.
Unfortunately, we Gina's knee was acting up, so after a 12-minute first mile, we pretty much walked the rest. Our route plan attacked way out early, so we only ended up with 50% of the points we wanted. Oh well. About the event: Good: 100 checkpoints!, orienteering maps! (sort of...), GPS coords of all checkpoints for the geo-cacher people out there. Not-so-good: Inadequate (or incorrect) checkpoint descriptions (we're spoiled by the excellent Mergeo descriptions), not fieldchecked recently (one checkpoint was completely gone). Bass-ackwards pricing ($10 per person, one map set per team, extra map sets $5. This means that if Gina and I ran as two separate solo teams, it would have been $20, and we would have received one map set each. Since we ran as a team, it was $20 for the team, and then an additional $5 for the second map set, totaling $25. The online registration had me assuming that it was one map set per person, not per team.) I'd definitely do it again (especially since we have family in Portland), but it was a bit of a bummer that we couldn't execute the plan we had. We would have killed that course if things went to plan! | ||
| C • points 1 | ||
Wednesday May 7 | ||
| Note | |
| Just bought airfare to the Tahoe 3-Day. $143 round-trip into Sacramento on Alaska. Price includes all taxes and fees and such. There's a 10% off promotion that works for all flights out of Seattle on Alaska through June 30th (code: EC02008).
If anyone wants to coordinate travel plans: Depart Seattle: Fri 6/20, 7:25am Arrive Sacramento: Fri 6/20, 9:17am Depart Sacramento: Sun 6/22, 8:20pm Arrive Seattle: Sun 6/22, 10:03pm | ||
| C • Gina's coming to this one, too... 1 | ||
| Note | |
| Really beat up today. Right arm/shoulder is pretty sore because I was serving more reps last night than usual, and a lot harder. Plus a lot of hitting.
Body is a bit banged up from diving around a lot, too. The ankle is pretty sore, I think from seeing action on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday. It's doing well in volleyball, but I had a lot of pain at softball on Monday, stepping on the bases at full speed (I cringe thinking about it). I need to figure out my timing such that I touch the bases with my right foot. Next up: a "street scramble" in Vancouver, WA on Saturday (Gina and I happen to be in Portland that weekend, anyway). Softball/volleyball on Monday/Tuesday next week. I might get back into Ultimate on Wednesday (or at least try to). Sage Stomp is the following weekend. | ||
Tuesday May 6 | ||
| Volleyball 2:00:00 [3] | |
| Everett A-League.
Won 1, Lost 5. Despite the ugly (again) record, this was our best team effort of the season. After scoring 10-12 points a game for the first three games, we put a scare into the top team, losing 25-20. We had a bit of a let-down at the start of the 5th game (against the other bad team). We dug ourselves an 8-0 hole. We were down 24-19, at the end, and then we scored 5 straight to tie it. Went back and forth, and we lost 27-25. We came out and blitzed them in the second game 25-16. Basically, after that 8-0 hole, we outscored them 50-35 after that. My jump serves were really good, my hitting decent, but too many hitting errors still. Digs were good, passes were decent... still too many accuracy issues. And surprisingly, my sets (small sample size) were very accurate. Matt had his "hammer" power back, Kyle is no longer a liability, Sam and Gina are consistently giving decent sets, despite not always receiving the best passes. We're definitely getting better, since 2/3 of our games every week are against the best volleyball competition I've every played against. | ||
Monday May 5 | ||
| Note | |
| Ok, this GPS watch thing is too cool...
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/69412 This is from my first at-bat at tonight's softball game. (Zoom-in on the map as far as you can in satellite view.) Looking at the tracklog, and the speed vs. time graph, you can tell that I hit a single and ran to first base. Then I stopped. And then the next batter grounded into a fielder's choice, and I was forced out at second. And then I jogged back to the dugout. I forgot to turn off the timer until I headed out to the field in the 2nd inning. I meant to do this for all of my at-bats, but I forgot. | ||
| C • GPS watch 6 | ||
| Softball 1:25:00 [1] | |
| Game #2 of the season.
Won 8-7. Very fun, intense, low scoring game! We won in the bottom of the 7th for a walk-off win! Lots of heroes for this one, but top honors go to Alex, who was 4-for-4 hitting with an inside-the-park homerun with a play at the plate. Nice! I was 3-for-4 hitting with three singles and one RBI. I also pitched the 6th and 7th innings and allowed 0 runs. | ||
Sunday May 4 | ||
| Note | |
| Man, my ankle is sore today! I don't remember tweaking it yesterday at all... | ||
Saturday May 3 | ||
| Orienteering race 58:30 [4]*** 6.9 km (8:29 / km) | |
| shoes: Vasque Lightspeed | ||
| Ultimate Orienteer #3: Score-O at Priest Point
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/65669 1025 points (Nikolay smoked a 1600!) Brought along my new Garmin. Unfortunately, I was pretty dumb and I selected the option to delete everything once the data was uploaded to my computer. I uploaded to the Garmin Connect website, instead of to the locally housed Training Center software. Basically, this means that I can't get the route to overlay on an o-map using either QuickRoute or RouteGadget. I can't seem to upload the data twice (once to Connect, once to GTC) before it's deleted. Man, I would think that after tons of Street Scrambles, that I'd have this route-planning thing down pat. Heh, I made so many route choice errors out there (skipping the 100-pointer with 300m of the finish, and running all the way out to a 25-pointer). However, in my defense on that one... the plan was to do an outer loop for the high pointers, but when I got there, I saw the control way down there, and it was steep and green, and the rest of the controls out there looked difficult to get there, so I decided to take it easy on my ankle. I had problems getting up the hill to 103. It was slippery/muddy/steep, and my handhold gave way, and I slid/fell back down the hill. I actually had to re-attack on another slope, and my original up and down is logged on the GPS track! :-) The most fun part of the entire course was running across the "ocean". The tide was extremely low-- "low tide saves my hide" was my motto during the last 10 minutes. As I was running out to 110, 109, 125, and 119, everyone else was running opposite me back to the finish! Basically, I was committed to the tide flats or else I'd lose mega points. Worked like a charm! One wet step, and probably 10 other muddy ones, but it worked out great. Afterward, everyone thought it was a clever strategy (I think I was the only one who attempted it). I'm glad I got one clever thing in, since I did a lot of silly things out there! I find it a bit ironic that the one guy from Kansas is the only one to attempt the crossing! Oh, I got nettled pretty good out there. My legs are still burning. | ||
| C • That's so cool that you can... 3 | ||
Friday May 2 | ||
| Note | |
| Your order has arrived at the Seattle Flagship store.
Heck yes! | ||
| C • Still no email... 3 | ||
| C • Email! 1 | ||
| C • Got it! 3 | ||
Thursday May 1 | ||
| Note | |
| All sorts of urban adventures this summer. Too bad I'll miss the last two due to US O' Champs. And probably the June event as I signed up to volunteer with Scouts through COC.
5/31 - Seattle Inner City Search Party 6/07 - The Great Urban Race - Seattle 7/12 - High Trek Adventure - Seattle 8/09 - Seattle City Chase 8/10 - Urban Dare - Seattle | ||
| C • Links? 5 | ||
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| Your order is now in transit.
Estimated arrival date at the Seattle Flagship store: 05/01/2008. Look for an e-mail from your REI store when it has arrived. It's 6:40pm on 05/01/2008, and no email! The suspense is killing me! | ||