Running3:40:00 [3] 31.04 km (7:05 / km) +1224m5:55 / km shoes: Hoka Mafate 2 B
Hockley loop with BGY, WandAR, Red and Ms Tiny.
Perfect day for it, and nice to have some new faces. Spring is springing!
Red, BGY and I did some extra side loops on the way around, and I dragged BGY for a repeat on the steepest b*tch. After the loop and side trails, BGY and I went up Dave's Pinnacle and then out and back up the old Cedar Highlands ski hill . On the way back we helped out a fellow get his dog back, shortly after complimenting his off-leash skills.
Not really tired after yesterday's run. I felt really good for the first couple of hrs, and tried to dial it back a touch on the downhills, but then felt the hip/core thing in the last hour.
My Garmin and it's stoopid autopause only got 3:24 and 27.5km, and I could hear it pausing on the big slow climbs, but we were out for 4 hours or so total.
Guessing on distance. No more autopause!
Had to drive Mocha the Bulletdog down to the cancer centre at Guelph, so no morning workout other than some foot/kneehab.
Ran back with Bazingadog in the new Altra Olympus.
They are super-comfy and super-roomy in the toe box. Tread may be a bit skimpy and uppers a bit lightweight for extended trail use, but they'll be good for training runs. Hope the zero drop isn't too hard on my Achilles.
What other shoes come with an instruction manual?
http://www.altrarunning.com/webapp/wcs/stores/serv...
To work via the hilly Rollercoaster trail with BZdog, and back via the pond and switchbacks. He was very gentle with the recovering Bulletdog when we got home, instead of the usual wrestling match.
Easy commute with Bazingadog.
He managed to throw me off the bike when we were ambushed by a goose behind a corner near the dam. I was almost stationary at the time.
Pretty chastised after I yelled at him- didn't even try for mr. Suicide Squirrel who ran right across our path later.
Orienteering race 3:25:19 26.05 km (7:53 / km) +486m7:13 / km ahr:166 max:194 shoes: Salomon FellCross
GRR with the Gallys.
Point-to-point this time, with a bit less climbing but more fallen debris than ever thanks to the ice storm.
We started with a scramble in Kelso, up the ski hill, off to Rattlesnake and Crawford Lake, ending in Kilbride.
Gally's nav was excellent in the aerial photo section, and we got ahead of 2 of the lead teams there for a bit. By the time we hit the end of the road run the lead 5 teams were almost together. HanselGooseKM caught us in at the next control, and dropped us after that.
The Gallys were great to run with. Gally's nav was very solid, and he's fast in rough terrain on the map. MsGally was running really well, even after taking a good fall.
With all the downed trees this section was a crapshoot as you never knew when you'd have to scramble through a mass of debris. I was able to do a bit of the nav in the later sections but Gally did the lion's share with only minor bobbles and no big errors. We all worked well together both in nav and pacing.
We ended up finishing 3rd ranked overall, 2nd co-ed and were first masters too. We were quite pleased with that, and it would have been very tough to catch Goose's team ahead of us. Best non-winter Raid finish ever!
I wasn't terribly tired by the end, but that nagging core/hip thing is holding back my top end and slowing me down a bit, especially after a couple of hours.