Training Log Archive: bishop22

Event: The Great Great Mountain Forest Rogaine - WCOC
 

First half of The Great... Great Mountain Rogaine. First, I have to say that the event lived up to its name. The terrain was wonderful; the map was very well done for such a large area; there were many very interesting control locations. And the hospitality at the hash house was incredible.

Nate (my 13-year-old son) and I had no intention of staying out all night; however, we were hoping to find a way to do 3 loops - a Saturday "day" loop, a short night loop, and a Sunday "day" loop. With the hash house centrally located, we thought there may be a good chance of that; however, once we got the map, it became clear that there was a lot of overhead associated with a trip to the HH, so we decided to just do 2 loops. Saturday went almost precisely as planned: we did a clockwise loop around the northeast corner of the map, and picked up 14 controls in under 8 hours. We did have an early problem: we took a bearing to head to our second control (86), went merrily on our way, until we didn't see an intermediate hilltop; we trudged on anyway, and when we had gone the right distance, the terrain was WAY off what we expected. Another look at the map revealed a blue line running 14 degrees to the left of north. Oh, that would be one of the magnetic north lines, huh? After correcting for our error, we quickly found the control. Our other 20-minute mistake was heading to C66. We got to a pond behind a school, and took a bearing to the control that was only 120m away, no luck. Try again. No. OK, let's try from the bend in this clearing southwest of the pond. Dead On! Not sure why the two attack points sent us in such different directions. C84 was the control of the day - had to climb a 3-story stone tower at the top of a 16-contour (160m) climb.

Finally back at GTA.
2 x (600, 400, 200) with 200 recovery after each:
2:10, 85, 41
2:07, 87, 39

The big boys did a 2-mile easy run and then a 3rd set, but since I have the Rogaine this weekend (and I was starting to feel the hamglute), I decided to pass on the last set.

w/up to and at track: 11:51
200m recovery after each interval
1+ mi easy before leaving
w/d back from track: 7:33

1 circuit

Y Pool was closed (new loser maintenance guy screwed up the chlorine level), so I hopped on one of the stationary bikes upstairs and did a "random hill" workout at level 15 - whatever that means. Took awhile to get the heart rate above 120, but then I could feel it affecting my ahmstring / glute recovering injury. Affecting in a good or bad way remains to be seen.

Mostly easy around East/Park/Monroe area - threw in a 3:01 (0.46mi) from E-M on Dartmouth, and 5:57 in from Good/East

VOA Scramble at Ridgemont with Erik, Steve and Howie (65).

Parent-Child tourney with Zach (60). Neither of us played well.