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Saturday Sep 1, 2012 #
Mountain Biking 3:10:00 [3] 28.0 mi (8.8 mph)
Eric, Pete W and Andrei up at Cayuna for the day - awesome riding! We did all the trails with only a very few exceptions. The trail system up there seems much smaller after doing it all in one day. This took us about five hours. We had a bit over three hours of actual riding. We did have two flats and some other breaks for tweaking Pete's new bike, my new brake pads, Eric's new drive train, etc.
$60 each covered gas, food and RV park fees. Super fun Silver Bullet trip!
$60 each covered gas, food and RV park fees. Super fun Silver Bullet trip!
Thursday Aug 30, 2012 #
Strength Training 25:00 [3]
lifted at the gym. Lower body. Deadlifts were brutal, Hammies are killing me.
Running 30:00 [3] 4.0 mi (7:30 / mi)
Treadmill run at gym before lifting legs.
Wednesday Aug 29, 2012 #
Running 23:00 [3] 3.0 mi (7:40 / mi)
Shredmill run.
Tuesday Aug 28, 2012 #
Strength Training 50:00 [3]
Upper body at gym with friend Tommy O'Connor.
Sunday Aug 26, 2012 #
Adventure Race 18:21:00 [3] 68.0 mi (16:11 / mi)
The END-AR.
A great race with good terrain and all the CP's in the exact right spot, good show Andy and crew!
We were behind by a minute after 8 hours but managed to navigate well through the night and ended up with a victory by a bit over two hours.
Biz and I talked and decided I'd do the nav, but in some places we had both an aerial and a topo and we worked together in those areas (he on the aerial and me on the topo) and that worked out really nicely.
The Swampdonkey's from Winnepeg were very strong and were the reason we had to push it pretty good for the first half of the race (and really the entire race because we didn't we had a two hour gap until we were 45 minutes from the line).
Great venue at a ski resort up there, Frostfire I believe?
Of note:
This race gave me an eerie feeling of being in a sci-fi film or otherwordly place. We were navigating on roads that really did not exist any longer, but must have when the USGS work was done. Then, we'd find these strange abandoned churches and houses. What's more the gravestones (4 cemetaries compromised a race-long mystery challenge) were REALLY old. There was one guy who died in 1892. This area was settled a LONG time ago. Coming up out of the large gorge (similar in size to the St. Croix or Mississippi in it's deepest areas, I'd say 200-300 foot walls) and up these old roads that used to have bridges across the gorge (but now not and therefore the roads were abandoned) had me really wondering why the roads were ever built at all. Evidently the farming kept people living up there before big agribusiness phenomenon came through and everyone sold out and left.
Another thing, Andy found some FANTASTIC hilltop cabins to which he got us access for checkpoints/refueling/mapping stations. VERY remote, very rustic, very cool.
Last thing, the soil there was crazy. It was shale, but it was the softest, most crumbly, almost foam like shale, it made for the smoothest "gravel" road riding I've ever ridden. Very fast. Very nice.
Good job END-AR, better than I was anticipating!
A great race with good terrain and all the CP's in the exact right spot, good show Andy and crew!
We were behind by a minute after 8 hours but managed to navigate well through the night and ended up with a victory by a bit over two hours.
Biz and I talked and decided I'd do the nav, but in some places we had both an aerial and a topo and we worked together in those areas (he on the aerial and me on the topo) and that worked out really nicely.
The Swampdonkey's from Winnepeg were very strong and were the reason we had to push it pretty good for the first half of the race (and really the entire race because we didn't we had a two hour gap until we were 45 minutes from the line).
Great venue at a ski resort up there, Frostfire I believe?
Of note:
This race gave me an eerie feeling of being in a sci-fi film or otherwordly place. We were navigating on roads that really did not exist any longer, but must have when the USGS work was done. Then, we'd find these strange abandoned churches and houses. What's more the gravestones (4 cemetaries compromised a race-long mystery challenge) were REALLY old. There was one guy who died in 1892. This area was settled a LONG time ago. Coming up out of the large gorge (similar in size to the St. Croix or Mississippi in it's deepest areas, I'd say 200-300 foot walls) and up these old roads that used to have bridges across the gorge (but now not and therefore the roads were abandoned) had me really wondering why the roads were ever built at all. Evidently the farming kept people living up there before big agribusiness phenomenon came through and everyone sold out and left.
Another thing, Andy found some FANTASTIC hilltop cabins to which he got us access for checkpoints/refueling/mapping stations. VERY remote, very rustic, very cool.
Last thing, the soil there was crazy. It was shale, but it was the softest, most crumbly, almost foam like shale, it made for the smoothest "gravel" road riding I've ever ridden. Very fast. Very nice.
Good job END-AR, better than I was anticipating!