Training Log Archive: FoxShadow

Awesome MNOC AR.

Teamed up with Erl, Amy (Gear Junkie) and Eric Kelly to take on the annual Adventure-O. How could I miss it?

Well, that was a question for which everyone else in OTNT had an answer: there was not one OTNT member present at this year's AR other than founder Mike Carlson and Julia hardcore volunteer and racer Bohnen. Not Biz, not Curtis, not Jerritt, Tim, Jeff, Darryn, Pete W., Jim, Ian, not anybody. No wonder WILD has trouble getting people out to their racers, not even the regular navigators are crossing over.

The good thing is that many of the regulars were putting on the race. Dana was a huge help, as was Ian, Curtis, and Biz, and others.

The race was SWEET! The woods up there are fantastic. Gorgeous open woods, fantastic fens, and a good map. The only downside were the bugs. We applied big spray four times, and even used full face nets on the last trek (which were awesome!).

We raced really well, all day long, with just a few oneish minute mistakes throughout the day. We just could not TA or move quite as fast as Bushwacker, and they got us by a well deserved 20 minutes in the end. The better team won this day and I had no regrets. We worked together really well all day long, and as a navigator, no frustrating would/coulda moment to dwell on.

Thanks to the Bushwacker crew for traveling for the event, it made it much more competitive which was great.

Many thanks to Columbia and Gear Junkie for sponsoring the event, that was awesome! Too bad the $10,000 in prizes from last year did not translate to increased attendance this year.

I have to think that the event was not announced early enough, as the main culprit for lack of attendance. Great race, once again. Perhaps even up to the standards on the godfather's courses, even. Mike said he loved the course.

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Weight is at a plateau. Need to drop one more pound before I can go back to normal mode. Just want to say I weighed 175 at least once before I relax on it.

Got down to the riverbottoms for a run. Is this the first run I have done outside a competition in a month or more? I think so. I have the torchlight 5k next wednesday, so I figured I had to see if the legs still worked.

I'm going to try to set a lifetime PR there. We'll see how that goes. I'm light, I was fast this spring after going with Kelly to the power dome all winter, but I have no idea how the legs will react. Lifetime PR is 20:05. I think I just have got to be able to get under 20 minutes. I figure I was in the sub 19:30 range a few months ago, just never raced.

Good run today, although the couple of 7:30 miles I did felt fast. Trail running is always slower though, right? ha.

After the run went to BW3's to meet Pete W and Molly and Mike to watch the WOC coverage. Totally awesome! We raged that place, got nearly almost one or two people interested in the sport, but not really. At all.

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Spin around the city, up and down the river, with Monika to hear about her trip to Colorado. Slow and easy, nice night.

Our for a quick loop at Cuyuna before lunch.

Our for a second loop after lunch. A few strava attacks were launched, but no KOM's were acheived on my tired legs. I feel like I have more or less memorized the trail system there - really pretty day today for the spectacular views.