Training Log Archive: Mr Wonderful

Event: SMOC Peach Mountain Farsta
 

Lauren, Tom, and Tim from the U of M PhD pool of super naturals.

Tom had done Nitrogaine this year. All were fresh off 2/4/6 hour from earlier in September.

They took quickly to it. I didn't plan well and had kind of a difficult ~4th location, but they did well and got right to it.

I had them kind of solo an undulating cross reentrant/spur to the little gravel pit, which all nailed.

Nice people, hope to see them at future events. They know the dirty secret of strong nav in AR now.

Firstly, very fun concept and interesting courses, with maximized potential for parallel error. Thank you for hosting, Igor!

Secondly, I need a ground up fitness overhaul, because if going redline is not why I'm stuffing up navigation left and right...I'm in trouble.

Crap route to my first put me in hurt out of the gate. So I bungled 1....2....3....okay to 4 and 5, even snuck a few feet back on Gibbard, then checked EVERY plausible spur gully combo at 6...pathetic.

I was good then except I stuffed up #11....I think Greg said, "almost done" here.

Got up to gravel ridgeline, Al Newman says, "You look like shit." Which well matched how I felt! Entering the exchange, I begged Igor to tell me I was overtime.

I was in 5th at the exchange - Kevin (my predicted winner), Cooper (I predicted him immediately after me), Scott Dye (noted as "to be feared" in my prediction notes, and Gibbard. Gibbard and I were together to #1 (he ran faster, I was more efficient). He had to be over a minute or two ahead by #2, I could not get moving on the trails.

Now physically wrecked, I made easy work of the navigation and was essentially error-free on the second loop. Interesting recovery.

I hate that I'm above race weight and out of shape. I hate that although I hate that, I'll probably find a snack when I get to homework later. And I'll probably sleep in tomorrow, figuring I'll exercise later. And when later comes around, I'll punt it to Tuesday morning to "work on homework". And then I'll be here again in six months. Must....break....it....

Congrats to Kevin - I've been expecting big things, and correctly called his win. Props to Cooper, who was hot on his heels. Igor says same 2nd loop time for Coop and Kev.

Somehow I only ended up with 2c for pickup.

The first one Igor had previously used to cause me to spend approximately ~20 minutes to locate in my early days - this time there and back was 12 minutes or so just waddling up the hill.

Gravel pit and back

Pups around DTP