Training Log Archive: Bash

Post-race nap followed by a nice steak dinner and good conversation with Browner, Timato, M&M, and Mr. and Mrs. GHOSLO.

World Rogaining Championships - aka my 24-hr birthday party!

Report and photos to come eventually.

Browner and I are in the Windy City on our way to Rapid City. We both had 2 hours of sleep, and we're racing through the night tomorrow. That's how it's done, right?

Pack, pack, pack.

So... When I was still bursting with inexplicable energy at 3 a.m., I began to wonder how much caffeine could possibly have been in the large decaf latte I had with TheMinister at lunch yesterday. There's always a little - even in decaf - but was 1 p.m. really too late in the day? Then I remembered... I hadn't looked at the cups to see which one was marked decaf. I wondered how soundly TheMinister was sleeping right now. I wanted to phone and ask. Grrrr. (Turns out he took a pleasant afternoon nap and slept through his planned workout! He thought about making coffee but figured he'd already had a large latte.) At 4 a.m., I started setting up my new Ambit2 Sapphire because... why not? I was wide awake.

Exercises with Dr. Bell's kinesiologists. Two of them and the doctor commented that my feet look healthy and strong, which may be the nicest thing anyone has ever said about my feet. They kindly refrained from pointing out that several of my toenails look like crap - but that comes with the territory.

Test run with my pretty new Ambit in a custom-configured Ultrarunning mode, i.e. reduced recording rate for longer battery life. The GPS track demonstrates the compromises of this mode. Distance recorded is shorter than it really was because the watch doesn't know about all the bends in the trail. I'll guess 5 km but the watch measured 4.37 km.

At UTMB last year, the numbers I looked at most of the time were Altitude and Time of Day. Distance was much less meaningful to me than the amount of climb remaining to the pass so I can live with the reduced distance accuracy in exchange for battery life. Time of Day is important to me because I'm so close to the cut-offs.

Drove all over the GTA today - lots of construction and other slowdowns. TheMinister and I had a nice catch-up lunch after I did some final pre-race shopping at the Salomon Store.