Training Archive: arcticQnIn the 7 days ending 2007-02-18:
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Saturday Feb 17 | ||
| Adventure race race 18:00:00 [3] | |
| 2007 Swamp Stomp, Bushnell, Florida
Raced with Kristoffer, Chris Edmundson and Bruce Swanson. Started out the race in the lead and held it until we got on the bikes and it got dark. I lost my head and due to poor decision making by myself and our team, we decided to skip a CP after searching for 2 hours, and due to frustration, knowing we were pretty much out of the race (it was a rogaine style event, so if we didn't get a CP, we weren't in contention) ended up dropping out of the race around 2am. I feel pretty terrible about how the race turned out for us, despite doing so well in the beginning. But lots of lessons learned...like race prep. Not to make excuses but we had an enormous stack of odds against us coming into this race. (Poor conditioning -Chris, Kristoffer and I haven't been training much before this race-, shoveling 28" of snow off our driveway (100m long) all day wednesday so we could get to the airport,and finally, our flight being cancelled and having to drive 21 hours to Florida instead, oh, and myself having not looked at a USGS map in nearly a year didn't help things.) All of these things added up and eventually, I think, did us in. Our next race is coming up and I hope to be much better prepared. Congratulations Joe! Good race. | ||
| C • Lesson learned 3 | ||