Nice run in Palgrave with BZ dog on a cool day.
Also a fair bit of lumberjack work.
Spent a while packing for next week's dental mission to Belize.
The less personal stuff I bring, the more dental supplies and headlamp batteries I can carry. Good chance to leave some shoes there too.
Running race 4:10:45 30.93 km (8:06 / km) +967m7:01 / km ahr:163 max:184 shoes: Fellcross 3
RTH with the Gallys as Storm Beowulf.
Interesting format with some tough CPs right off the bat. We then had a relay, with Gally going to the trickier nav cp and MsGally and I taking turns up the mud road and back. We were able to do some towing on the next road section and dropped teams we had been leapfrogging. Gally was really on the nav well in the Game of Thorns, and we caught and kept leapfrogging BendMMonster and Ang-XC. Next was some urban O, and we hooked up and hammered it to the Domestique coffee aid station, figuring we'd recover during the mandatory 15 min stop. We managed to drop the other strong co-eds by just a bit.
Coming out of there it was more like we seized up than rested, and the 3 co-ed teams were neck and neck. We lost Ang-XC around K2, but were with BendMMonster on and off. I was completely towed out but the Gallys were running strong. Coming in to the matrix I headed in a bit of the way to guide MsGally to A, then back to B while Gally got C. I found it ok but had no gas in the tank, and made it to the rendezvous after BMN had left. In hindsight, Gally should have gone to drop off Cath while I went for B- he was back well before me.
We ended up 3rd co-ed & 6th overall, 1min behind BMM, which is fine for such a strong field and tough RTH.
The Gallys were great teammates, and strong despite "not in running shape". Mr G was great on the nav, and MsG and I work very well together.