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Saturday Oct 31, 2015 #
7 AM
Running race 5:34:38 51.58 km (6:29 / km) +1083m 5:52 / km
ahr:163 max:197 shoes: Hoka Challenger ATR
Bad Thing 50K.
I went into this feeling undertrained since cracking my ribs and tailbone 6 weeks ago, but was interested in seeing a new trail on this brand new race.
I had a new nutrition plan for my dubious stomach- only 4 scoops of tailwind sports drink, basically running on empty.
Nice mix of doubletrack, some dicey singletrack and steep hills, and some dirt road, with excellent views of the Maitland river. Huge army of volunteers marshalling and directing at the turns.
We started in the dark, and a lead pack with Bender and Storm took off like scalded cats. I ended up leading the second pack of 6 or 7 with my strong lights, which meant I had to do the route finding in heavy fall leaves and singletrack. We missed a turn right out of CP1 in the dark and ended up having to climb the whole way back up, but other than that it went pretty well. One 18 year old track-runner girl (Red Lightning due to clothes and hair) was running with a feeble headlamp so she tended to stick with me, but was flying past me on the uphills and I'd catch up on the descents.
I was feeling good at CP3 aid station, 31K in 3:10 or so. Red Lightning took off in a blur, (and ended up winning female.) The next 10K had lots of steep slippery climbs and descents which I didn't mind. I dropped 4 of the runners following me, but made 1 wrong turn and a couple caught up before I dropped them again.
Suddenly my bad knee started acting up. After a brief stop at CP4 I could barely walk up the next hill. All road and flat trail from there, but I was hobbling until the couple caught me again and gave me an advil before dropping me like a greased anvil.
After that I managed to gradually get the pace back up and chug it in about 6 min/km. I kept waiting for my gut to pack in but it never happened! I was even able to eat a decent post-race meal of veg chilli. I'm not sure if it was running on 350 calories of Tailwind and 1 small coke, or my knee holding me back that saved my gut.
Storm took the win in an impressive FKT of 4:54 I think, with Bender about 9 min back. Only a 40 min spread between me and the winning time,with 7 min of nav errors in total, but I was 10th so it was a strong field. (First masters I think, but they don't have categories).
Great to see Batgirl Bash finish despite her cold. Very well organized and fun race with great logistics.
I went into this feeling undertrained since cracking my ribs and tailbone 6 weeks ago, but was interested in seeing a new trail on this brand new race.
I had a new nutrition plan for my dubious stomach- only 4 scoops of tailwind sports drink, basically running on empty.
Nice mix of doubletrack, some dicey singletrack and steep hills, and some dirt road, with excellent views of the Maitland river. Huge army of volunteers marshalling and directing at the turns.
We started in the dark, and a lead pack with Bender and Storm took off like scalded cats. I ended up leading the second pack of 6 or 7 with my strong lights, which meant I had to do the route finding in heavy fall leaves and singletrack. We missed a turn right out of CP1 in the dark and ended up having to climb the whole way back up, but other than that it went pretty well. One 18 year old track-runner girl (Red Lightning due to clothes and hair) was running with a feeble headlamp so she tended to stick with me, but was flying past me on the uphills and I'd catch up on the descents.
I was feeling good at CP3 aid station, 31K in 3:10 or so. Red Lightning took off in a blur, (and ended up winning female.) The next 10K had lots of steep slippery climbs and descents which I didn't mind. I dropped 4 of the runners following me, but made 1 wrong turn and a couple caught up before I dropped them again.
Suddenly my bad knee started acting up. After a brief stop at CP4 I could barely walk up the next hill. All road and flat trail from there, but I was hobbling until the couple caught me again and gave me an advil before dropping me like a greased anvil.
After that I managed to gradually get the pace back up and chug it in about 6 min/km. I kept waiting for my gut to pack in but it never happened! I was even able to eat a decent post-race meal of veg chilli. I'm not sure if it was running on 350 calories of Tailwind and 1 small coke, or my knee holding me back that saved my gut.
Storm took the win in an impressive FKT of 4:54 I think, with Bender about 9 min back. Only a 40 min spread between me and the winning time,with 7 min of nav errors in total, but I was 10th so it was a strong field. (First masters I think, but they don't have categories).
Great to see Batgirl Bash finish despite her cold. Very well organized and fun race with great logistics.
Thursday Oct 29, 2015 #
Note
Bah- howling winds and falling branches = driving. Second day in a row :(
Monday Oct 26, 2015 #
Cycling 45:00
Commute with the Big Boy. He was pokey on the way down, but a rocket on the return- I could barely keep up.
Sunday Oct 25, 2015 #
Cycling 38:00 [2]
Bazingadog was feeling neglected so I took him for a ride in Palgrave West.
7 AM
Running 2:10:00 [3] 22.3 km (5:50 / km) +444m 5:18 / km
ahr:136 max:136 shoes: Hoka Challenger ATR
(2:19 total)
Excellent run at Mono Cliffs with Bender and Adventuredog. We started at Dark o'clock but the sun was up in the first half hour. Perfect fall colours, rainy and cloudy gave way to perfect sunshine.
Felt like a nice pace, but probably faster than I should go next week. Bender's in fine form.
Excellent run at Mono Cliffs with Bender and Adventuredog. We started at Dark o'clock but the sun was up in the first half hour. Perfect fall colours, rainy and cloudy gave way to perfect sunshine.
Felt like a nice pace, but probably faster than I should go next week. Bender's in fine form.