Training Log Archive: fkawam

Event: Challenge the GATs Adventure Run / Rogaine
 

Defy the Gats Rogaine...Greenhouse Gasses ....3 hr
Start on Cite des Jeunes 3 km down the road from La Cabane..
We had an ambitious route plan (for 25 of the 30 controls) which we followed with no errors or hesitations ...we just ran out of steam near the end causing us to reconsider our plan and get 17 controls....in hindsight we might have been able to chose a better ending combo but who knows...it all would have been predicated on getting back under 3 hr.
We came 4th in the Co-ed...off the podium by ~50 points...but it was great fun ...beautiful day in the woods despite the dire predictions earlier in the week...Love doing these with Colleen
Three cold weather mechanical things I experimented with worked really well despite the lack of need for it:
1. SI on a shock cord around my neck
2. Thumpass : replaced the stretchy strap with velcro for bigger overmitts cutting off my finger circulation
3. Garmin (and whistle) on my back pack strap...very liberating..never looked at it ....checked course time/distance less frequently with the oldschool watch I forgot to takeoff

Andrew did the 3hr solo and came 2nd to Rorry...picked up a few ideas from his route

Maybe the 6 next year???

windy, cold and sluggish on way out...took a slightly different woods section at the end ...a little tighter but straighter...and out of the wind!

C • Sorry you didn't have the c... 3

C • Windy Woes 1

back through the woods route...not as cold or windy as ride out

OOC Training
Frank Ryan Park
Sheldon, Rikard, Cathy, Andrew, Daniela, Stefan, myself
w/u
~3km to Queensway station and back
w/o
3x3 laps of the grass perimeter of upper park (~1500m) with a rotating fast lap
~3min rec
w/d
3 road loops~1200m

Found a tick partially engorged...removed it with tick key...will call doc in AM

From th weekend or today's walk at Shirley's Bay? not sure