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Saturday Mar 1, 2008 #
Snowshoeing race (CNYO Snowgaine) 4:11:00 [3]
shoes: Ecco GTX + Screws
Day 1
Bash and I headed down in heavy snow piled in the Bullfrog van with Salomon (LeAnimal and Phatty), Running Free (Millhouse and DR) and the Bobkitten Slice (who met Dogrunner there).
30 minutes with maps went fast. Bash and I were undecided on skis vs snowshoes but went with the latter due to lots of roads on our planned route.
Nav went well, and we ended up on RF's trail for quite a while. We met up with the Bobkittens too part way through. Great snowshoeing with poles, but also long sections of running on roads in blizzard conditions, which was going fine- at first. It turns out that skis would have been far better, as you could ski all the roads, and the terrain wasn't too hilly.
Up at the far North end of the map at around 5.5 hours, my bad knee suddenly gave out and I could only run 25 paces every now and then, eating advil. This put us behind sched, and we had to skip our planned controls on the way home and just suffer-fest it back as fast as we could for the last 2 hours with no more points on a long snowy road that was maybe a little faster without snowshoes, but hard work.
Came in with RF 11 minutes late, so 33 minute penalty tomorrow. They had a big day, hit more controls than us on the way home and cleared the NW section.
Bash and I headed down in heavy snow piled in the Bullfrog van with Salomon (LeAnimal and Phatty), Running Free (Millhouse and DR) and the Bobkitten Slice (who met Dogrunner there).
30 minutes with maps went fast. Bash and I were undecided on skis vs snowshoes but went with the latter due to lots of roads on our planned route.
Nav went well, and we ended up on RF's trail for quite a while. We met up with the Bobkittens too part way through. Great snowshoeing with poles, but also long sections of running on roads in blizzard conditions, which was going fine- at first. It turns out that skis would have been far better, as you could ski all the roads, and the terrain wasn't too hilly.
Up at the far North end of the map at around 5.5 hours, my bad knee suddenly gave out and I could only run 25 paces every now and then, eating advil. This put us behind sched, and we had to skip our planned controls on the way home and just suffer-fest it back as fast as we could for the last 2 hours with no more points on a long snowy road that was maybe a little faster without snowshoes, but hard work.
Came in with RF 11 minutes late, so 33 minute penalty tomorrow. They had a big day, hit more controls than us on the way home and cleared the NW section.
Running 4:00:00 [3]
shoes: Ecco GTX + Screws
Run portion of the Snowgaine. Running on snowy roads with full pack & snowshoes on back. Some very soft surface, some firm.