Training Log Archive: Spike

Work commute on the bike even though it was WTWT. I decided not to walk to work because tomorrow is FTNZWTF.

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C • FTNZWTF 2

Work commute. I pulled some weeds in the backyard when I got home. My shoulder is sore (not from pulling weeds but from falling yesterday).

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PTOC red course at Blue Springs Lake Marina.

The map has a lot of green, but it wasn't to bad.

I took a hard fall on the way to the 2nd control when my foot slid on a rock and I fell on my left hip.

I felt a little slow from yesterday, but I was also mentally lazy and didn't do a good job of keeping a good steady effort.

When we arrived I was surprised to see Fritz. He finished a marathon yesterday. Fun to see that he felt good enough to do the orienteering.

http://sprintseries.org/doma/show_map.php?user=spi...
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The MTBO section of the Ft Leavenworth Adventure Race.

My plan for the day was to keep an easy/steady effort and spend about 3 hours on the course. I would skip the extra challenges. The paddling was already cancelled due to some problems with getting the boats to the race with high winds. Except the paintball. I figured I'd shoot the paintball guns because that wouldn't take much time.

The biking section was ok. I had some trouble with a few markers, but that's par for the course when you're navigating on old USGS maps.

Orienteering section of the race. Fun to get in some areas around the hunt lodge. I haven't been there for a very long time. The course was good - you could navigate to the controls and the markers weren't too hard to see. Once control in the bottom of a gully was a bit hard to get to.

At the transition area I chatted with a guy helping at the event. He was interested in my MTBO map holder and we started chatting. He was a West Point orienteer in the late 1990s. It is cool how many former W.P. orienteers you bump into at the Ft Lev Adventure races.

I spent some time in thorns and poison ivy. I tried some Tecnu. I don't know how well that stuff works, but it seems reasonable to test. I also have the Walgreen's version of Zanfel in case things get bad. The Zanfel-like stuff is expensive, but I've had good luck with it. Maybe I should try Goop?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10940115

After the orienteering and before I biked back to the finish I did the paintball shooting. I was rough, taking maybe 12+ shots to get 6 hits. I think last time I had one miss.

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Work commute after a busy day at the office.

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Some time on the river trails.

I drew a quick course on the river trail map and biked it at an easy effort.

During the course I encountered three fallen trees. I was able to move one off the trail, but the other two will take some chainsaw work. My guess is they'll be gone by the weekend. The folks who maintain the trail do good work.

The trees fell becuase of the afternoon wind. The weather service said the wind speed reached 52 mph in Lawrence. I fought the wind for about 800 meters when I took a levee route on one leg.

I had one good mistake. The leg would have been cake with controls. The control location was a trail bend along a trail with lots of bends. I lost track of my location and had some trouble understanding where I was. I stopped to relocate, then went to the location carefully.

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Work commute. The rain stopped just before I left for work.

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