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Sunday Aug 30, 2015 #
Orienteering Meet race 3:55:00 [4] *** 32.0 km (7:21 / km)
ahr:132 max:159 spiked:35/37c shoes: Solomon black
Chicago 4 hour City Urban event.
Not such a big turnout.
The controls were all questions that had to be given an answer with a double sided piece of regular paper.
Mine was getting trashed and I pondered the wrong question at a corner looking for some female judges name. After checking out some other corners blocks away I kept coming back to the same corner. Turned out since my answer sheet was messed up and that was the question for another checkpoint. The question at that corner needed was what time did the restaurant open? :-)
Only 3 half serious competitors seemed to be doing the 4 hour, but there no specific declaration to which you were doing. There were maybe 30 folks total for this pretty cool event.
I thought that I would just do 3 hours. At 2 1/2 hours my IT band was crying. I was way at the south part of the map. But continued to pick up controls at at a slower painful pace instead.
Overall I ran 20 miles on 99.5% pavement in under 4 hours. I think that's close to a 4.5 hour marathon. So I consider that done and answers the question if I could finish one. Not with my IT band, that has stopped me many years in my younger days, once in Chicago too where I thought I would break 2:50.
Control pickup was a breeze too.
Not such a big turnout.
The controls were all questions that had to be given an answer with a double sided piece of regular paper.
Mine was getting trashed and I pondered the wrong question at a corner looking for some female judges name. After checking out some other corners blocks away I kept coming back to the same corner. Turned out since my answer sheet was messed up and that was the question for another checkpoint. The question at that corner needed was what time did the restaurant open? :-)
Only 3 half serious competitors seemed to be doing the 4 hour, but there no specific declaration to which you were doing. There were maybe 30 folks total for this pretty cool event.
I thought that I would just do 3 hours. At 2 1/2 hours my IT band was crying. I was way at the south part of the map. But continued to pick up controls at at a slower painful pace instead.
Overall I ran 20 miles on 99.5% pavement in under 4 hours. I think that's close to a 4.5 hour marathon. So I consider that done and answers the question if I could finish one. Not with my IT band, that has stopped me many years in my younger days, once in Chicago too where I thought I would break 2:50.
Control pickup was a breeze too.