Training Log Archive: biggins

Event: Pawtuckaway Camping Weekend
 

12 hour AR at Pawtuckaway with Dad and Alex.
The biking was maybe half easily ridable dirt roads, and half twisty wet rocky singletrack (or just straight bushwhacking) that I ran long parts of. Alex was riding circles around Dad and I for most of it. The bike I rented had flat pedals with metal studs on both sides, which was good for grip, but whenever my feet bounced off the pedal (frequently) then the studs dug some nice long parallel gouges into the front or back of my legs, which wasn't so good.

Canoe leg. Maybe 2/3 open water going into a headwind, 1/3 swamp bashing through some knee to ankle deep muck.

Orienteering leg. Actually quite a bit of real orienteering, which was cool, but also a bit of bingo hide-and-seek games at one of the "control" locations, which was not cool. Well I guess it was cool, or cold, since it was pouring rain and windy and we spent 45 mins on top of Mt Pawtuckaway looking for the stupid things. Finally bailed and went to the second part of the orienteering, which was setup like a score-o. Only had 20 mins by the time we started, and I blew a bunch of that by getting the control code wrong on the first one we found (though in my retrospective defense, the description was also dodgy: it said water-filled pit, but was actually a dry shallow depression). But we eventually punched that one and nailed two more before hauling back into the finish with 30 seconds to spare.

around the ski trails a bit with Dad.

Went to pick up the mt bike for the AR this weekend, then Dad had to go to "work" for a while, so I wandered around VT for a bit. MTB on the roads in running shoes is not so fun, but it was a good workout. Harpoon brewery -> Windsor -> Brownsville -> Hartland -> Brewery.

Picked up the new rollerskis today, then Dad and I went for an easy spin out in front of the house.

more bulldozering today. mostly fixing the parts on the bulldozer we broke yesterday.