Saturday Nov 17 |
 | Orienteering 1:31:00 [3]*** | |
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| Amazing course put on by Bash and the rest of the Tree Huggers!
Certainly wasn't my best performace behind the compass, but lots of fun nonetheless! Leanimal kicked my butt after another stellar performance on her end.
I celebrated my second place finish by gorging myself with pizza, crash brownies, brie, cookies, and more pizza for the rest of the weekend. May have to log some extra hours this week... |
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| C • Me Too 4 |
Friday Nov 16 |
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| LAZY! :) |
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| C • No, just tapering... 1 |
Thursday Nov 15 |
| Strength 35:00 [3] | |
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| Sweet shoulder blade blasting session. Nothin' like tiny little circles with 5lb weights to combat the evils of a winging scapula!! |
Wednesday Nov 14 |
| MTB (Trails and roads) 1:14:00 [4] | |
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| Good hard ride as I went a little too far and was pressed for time to get back home so had to hammer! Beautiful day out there. |
Sunday Nov 11 |
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| Event: Raid the Hammer
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| Orienteering race 4:16:07 [3]*** | |
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| Awesome day racing with Leanimal and Phatty on team Salomon XT Wings out in Waterdown for the Raid the Hammer. Lots of teams were out there on the start line and chaos was unleashed at the starting gun as we tried to keep up with Sudden the pace bunny up to the first trail leading to CP1. What a great way to warm up slowly!! The course was well done with two matrices on the regular course, and a special E=mc2(squared) section on the advanced with three runs (one mud, two climbs) where each team member had to do at least two controls. The matrices definitely had their easier and harder controls and many teams found it challenging to try to spread out nav talent and running ability so that everyone would end up back at the rendezvous at the same time. The advanced map also had one of those "blank" sections where all we had on our map was the contours with no extra trails, vegetation descriptions, or water features. We got a little turned around here with a couple of other teams, but hey, we were just getting more time out in the woods for our money, right? The rest of the race went fairly well. A few creek crossings and slippery muddy slopes to get us nice and dirty and to keep things interesting. Phatty had a nice tumbling bail down one hill that reminded me a little of that scene from the Princess Bride. Oh, and at one point I got my hair stuck in a thistly vine thing and was virtually immobilized. We spent a good portion of the race going back and forth with The Tragically Quick. The Tree Huggers were also making frequent appearances throughout our day. Unfortunately, we never saw Superwes and Bender's team out there at all since they smoked the course and came in as the top coed team! Congrats to everyone out there today and thanks to Sudden, Hammer, and all the other folks at GHO for putting on another fun event! Now I need to start training on my snowshoes.... |
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| C • AS you wish? 3 |
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| C • It was a good slow warmup because... 1 |