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Saturday Dec 8, 2012 #
Event: Dover Raid Adventure Race
11 AM
Orienteering 5:12:00 [4] 39.03 km (8:00 / km) +1613ft 7:31 / km
spiked:40/45c
dover raid. skipped one CP. initial results had us tied for second on points, but with a slower time. the hubbub on the internet seems to say we might've been shorted a point - either by our own stupidity or a judge misreading our filthy punch passport.
Frankenmap for the armchair ARers and the QR addicts. Big, 5MB.
and the Sink, Trip, Crash official QR. the nerdy tip of the nerdy overanalysis iceberg. also big, 5MB.
short version? super stoked with the results. going in, i had no idea how far or how long i could go, and i really surprised myself. 39k, a shade over 5 hours and still going strong (but slow, 10min/mi) at the end. i didn't feel any kind of weary-to-the-bone tired at the end, and i just now failed at going to bed around 11:30. damage report is slightly sore but fully-functional knees, typical scratches from (red?) greenbriar, and a 3in diameter bruise on my hip from going down an embankment the quick way. mid-race niggles include right front hip flexors, left plantar fascia, and both hamstrings
longer version: day started with a 8:15 call from passenger Mark asking if I knew the race was today. I didn't. Thought it was on Sunday. Got to dover just in time for the pre-race briefing which had no surprises. Some last minute indecision about what to wear, but tights/shorts/long poly top/short poly top/buff was absolutely perfect. wore a rain shell for two CPs then stowed it. carried a worthless pair of pants and extra long poly top all day. had gloves, never used 'em but smart to bring. extra socks were pointless. normal running shoes were the right call, but i did have a few low traction moments of consequence.
saturday was going to be Buy Food Day, but this pesky race was early so I was in the hole on the vittles front. had a cliff bar, scrounged a rice crispy treat and granola bar from Mark and two gu (gus?) and a shot block sleeve from Ian. Only bonus food was a gingerbread cookie the size of a manhole cover from the coffeeshop CP. I'm absolutely astonished I got by on that little food. I thought it'd be a severe handicap and I'd bonk like.. something that bonks a lot. things turned out well, though. brought a shade under 2L of water. thought i killed it, but turns out i pinched the bag oddly with about half a liter to spare. gotta check for that in the future.
random gear: bringing a headlamp was a smart choice. brought the wee guy, and it was totally adequate. more lumens would've been nicer for only the last control, but i only felt that way because i had just used the floodlamp for thursday's night-o. blew the fresh-from-the-bermans retaining ring out of my moscow compass. no use after that, but nav was low on the precision compass use. easy enough that a compass without declination adjustment was fine, but i still wish i brought a ruler and red pen to draw MN lines. popped two ibuprofen at the 2hr mark, and that's about it for kit.
nav was a mix of great and adequate, despite these cave paintings adventure racers use. i really think our overall route choice was perfect, but i'll look into it. key ideas were 34-36-44 in the southeast, and leaving 53 and 55 for the return from the northwest controls. individual mistakes include:
13: hitting it before 12 by mistake (1min?)
17: cutting in early (2min?)
20: something was going on here. it sounds ridiculous, but i think some big storm might've messed with the river. gps track doesn't jive with what we saw, and the woods weren't dense enough to affect the track (10min)
21. bad distance estimation. doubleback, undoubleback (5min)
31. shitty bearing. looks like magnetic east, doesn't it ian? blessing in disguise as we dropped another team off our heels when we doubled back. (3min)
44: shitty compasswork. didn't expect two separate clusters of baseball fields - many people didn't, and got drawn off north. also, the red-greenbriar in that easement after this one was absurd. almost an inch in diameter. (5min)
35: briefly overran (30s)
27: cut in a little early (2min)
53: briefly down the wrong trail (1min)
looks like enough dropped time to get CP23 - but it's not wasted time if you're recuperating, eh? if the race had started on time, I bet we could've cleaned it. the goog says CP24-CP23 is 4.7k round trip - would've taken us 30 minutes. we finished with 18 to spare, and the race started 20min late. Still would've lost to Joe and Jeff, though. All those extra k for nothing.
walked off with some pity loot despite not winning our category (Joe'd) - we got called for tying in the coed division, but they realized we were decidedly non-coed when we stood up. they felt bad and gave us some awesome(ly ugly) warm socks.
pleasantly surprised to learn i could do a 5:30 marathon in a pinch. no excuse for doing green long next a meet, though. no more victory mugs for ben.
wow, that became a novel.
Frankenmap for the armchair ARers and the QR addicts. Big, 5MB.
and the Sink, Trip, Crash official QR. the nerdy tip of the nerdy overanalysis iceberg. also big, 5MB.
short version? super stoked with the results. going in, i had no idea how far or how long i could go, and i really surprised myself. 39k, a shade over 5 hours and still going strong (but slow, 10min/mi) at the end. i didn't feel any kind of weary-to-the-bone tired at the end, and i just now failed at going to bed around 11:30. damage report is slightly sore but fully-functional knees, typical scratches from (red?) greenbriar, and a 3in diameter bruise on my hip from going down an embankment the quick way. mid-race niggles include right front hip flexors, left plantar fascia, and both hamstrings
longer version: day started with a 8:15 call from passenger Mark asking if I knew the race was today. I didn't. Thought it was on Sunday. Got to dover just in time for the pre-race briefing which had no surprises. Some last minute indecision about what to wear, but tights/shorts/long poly top/short poly top/buff was absolutely perfect. wore a rain shell for two CPs then stowed it. carried a worthless pair of pants and extra long poly top all day. had gloves, never used 'em but smart to bring. extra socks were pointless. normal running shoes were the right call, but i did have a few low traction moments of consequence.
saturday was going to be Buy Food Day, but this pesky race was early so I was in the hole on the vittles front. had a cliff bar, scrounged a rice crispy treat and granola bar from Mark and two gu (gus?) and a shot block sleeve from Ian. Only bonus food was a gingerbread cookie the size of a manhole cover from the coffeeshop CP. I'm absolutely astonished I got by on that little food. I thought it'd be a severe handicap and I'd bonk like.. something that bonks a lot. things turned out well, though. brought a shade under 2L of water. thought i killed it, but turns out i pinched the bag oddly with about half a liter to spare. gotta check for that in the future.
random gear: bringing a headlamp was a smart choice. brought the wee guy, and it was totally adequate. more lumens would've been nicer for only the last control, but i only felt that way because i had just used the floodlamp for thursday's night-o. blew the fresh-from-the-bermans retaining ring out of my moscow compass. no use after that, but nav was low on the precision compass use. easy enough that a compass without declination adjustment was fine, but i still wish i brought a ruler and red pen to draw MN lines. popped two ibuprofen at the 2hr mark, and that's about it for kit.
nav was a mix of great and adequate, despite these cave paintings adventure racers use. i really think our overall route choice was perfect, but i'll look into it. key ideas were 34-36-44 in the southeast, and leaving 53 and 55 for the return from the northwest controls. individual mistakes include:
13: hitting it before 12 by mistake (1min?)
17: cutting in early (2min?)
20: something was going on here. it sounds ridiculous, but i think some big storm might've messed with the river. gps track doesn't jive with what we saw, and the woods weren't dense enough to affect the track (10min)
21. bad distance estimation. doubleback, undoubleback (5min)
31. shitty bearing. looks like magnetic east, doesn't it ian? blessing in disguise as we dropped another team off our heels when we doubled back. (3min)
44: shitty compasswork. didn't expect two separate clusters of baseball fields - many people didn't, and got drawn off north. also, the red-greenbriar in that easement after this one was absurd. almost an inch in diameter. (5min)
35: briefly overran (30s)
27: cut in a little early (2min)
53: briefly down the wrong trail (1min)
looks like enough dropped time to get CP23 - but it's not wasted time if you're recuperating, eh? if the race had started on time, I bet we could've cleaned it. the goog says CP24-CP23 is 4.7k round trip - would've taken us 30 minutes. we finished with 18 to spare, and the race started 20min late. Still would've lost to Joe and Jeff, though. All those extra k for nothing.
walked off with some pity loot despite not winning our category (Joe'd) - we got called for tying in the coed division, but they realized we were decidedly non-coed when we stood up. they felt bad and gave us some awesome(ly ugly) warm socks.
pleasantly surprised to learn i could do a 5:30 marathon in a pinch. no excuse for doing green long next a meet, though. no more victory mugs for ben.
wow, that became a novel.
Thursday Dec 6, 2012 #
7 PM
Orienteering 46:16 [3] 4.24 km (10:55 / km) +299ft 9:52 / km
map 1 of anna's hammond pond night o. pretty gruesome through 5, then saw someone else and made everything more-or-less click. took a long time to (incompletely) adjust to the scale. probably would've done the same, or better, on a map without trails. real easy to plow across a trail without noticing, or imagine a trail along a linear gap. compass detonated again when i finally found cp1. gotta get a new retaining ring from the Bermans tomorrow.
unplugged my headlamp once, that was fun. learned the needle and bezel of my backup baseplate glow in the dark. here's a QR for the first half of the evening
unplugged my headlamp once, that was fun. learned the needle and bezel of my backup baseplate glow in the dark. here's a QR for the first half of the evening
8 PM
Orienteering 34:15 [3] 3.62 km (9:28 / km) +285ft 8:27 / km
map 2. second verse, same as the first. but backward. more-or-less held it together, less a few unmapped trail spurs. until the third-to-last control. then ugh.
Tuesday Dec 4, 2012 #
Note
didn't make it to climbing tonight, membership ran out yesterday. damn things are expensive. i always waffle about what's the right option - punch cards, short memberships, or longer ones. figured i'd be better about logging when i went to the gym this time around.
it was a three month membership that just ran out - $265 for 14 weeks and 17 visits according to the APlog. 1.2 visits/week, $15.60 per. barely better than the $16.50/visit 10x punch card. not sure (after years) how the monthly (annual?) membership works. kinda seems like the worst play is the 3mo membership. whoops! moot point, anyway, just scored a 10 punch groupon for $120. good timing!
it was a three month membership that just ran out - $265 for 14 weeks and 17 visits according to the APlog. 1.2 visits/week, $15.60 per. barely better than the $16.50/visit 10x punch card. not sure (after years) how the monthly (annual?) membership works. kinda seems like the worst play is the 3mo membership. whoops! moot point, anyway, just scored a 10 punch groupon for $120. good timing!
8 AM
Running 23:27 [0] 4.89 km (4:48 / km) +94ft 4:39 / km
stomp stomp stomp
high humidity and no wind made for a warm 41F. long sleeves were borderline overkill
high humidity and no wind made for a warm 41F. long sleeves were borderline overkill
Sunday Dec 2, 2012 #
3 PM
Running 46:04 [4] 9.13 km (5:03 / km) +234ft 4:51 / km
out for a little leon trotsky
which would be funnier if the run were more People's Republic, and less Yikes, Eastern Watertown.
found a cool road name: thingvalla. also went down coolidge street, fun story: family lore says my great-grandfather saw pre-president coolidge get punched in the face. he was a national guard major when then-governor coolidge was trying to use the guard to keep the peace during the boston police strike of 1919. the mayor of boston disagreed, and used coolidge's face to make his point.
supported by internet facts!. And it's Coolidge doing the 'quacking', not great-grandpa Gallup. He would never quack. I assume.
which would be funnier if the run were more People's Republic, and less Yikes, Eastern Watertown.
found a cool road name: thingvalla. also went down coolidge street, fun story: family lore says my great-grandfather saw pre-president coolidge get punched in the face. he was a national guard major when then-governor coolidge was trying to use the guard to keep the peace during the boston police strike of 1919. the mayor of boston disagreed, and used coolidge's face to make his point.
supported by internet facts!. And it's Coolidge doing the 'quacking', not great-grandpa Gallup. He would never quack. I assume.