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Saturday May 25, 2013 #
1 PM
Biking (w/ Tag along) 30:00 [0] 2.25 mi (4.5 mph)
shoes: The General
Sub loop with dear daughter. Stopped for swings and teeter totter.
7 PM
Walking 1:04:00 [3] 3.5 mi (18:17 / mi)
shoes: Brooks Cascadia 8s
Very slow sub loop + minor out and back. Tried to get dear daughter to get some baseline chair fitness, but she mostly complained a lot so she went home.
Tuesday May 21, 2013 #
8 PM
Walking 40:00 [1] 2.68 mi (14:56 / mi)
shoes: Brooks Ghost Red
Catching up on SNL.
Monday May 20, 2013 #
Note
tl;dr Match up fitness levels for races, improve nav
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Rage Reflections
I think I will have a longer list of potential areas for improvement than Hilary! :)
* Race with vetted fitness or AP log or similar. I wish I were a better person, and I'm certainly no rock star, but having somewhat compatible fitness levels is apparently imperative to my enjoyment. The idling on the final bike was very trying.
* Improve low vis nav. I will strive to get compass bearing work in thick vegetation, and do more night nav. I was okay with readable features during daylight. Also need to work on vague areas - big hills and stuff are easy, now time to bring it home on fussy terrain.
* Better team role definition. We had times where everyone was trying to do the same thing, and times when no one was doing anything, and both were not good!
* Look for extra roads, time permitting. One road was renamed, and goofed us up on the bike. Another decent sized road was not on the USGS and distracted us from the correct semi hidden road that was on USGS.
* Don't do things without a reason, and don't be influenced by other teams. We had moments where people were "it feels like this way", which it turns out is a terrible way to do it. Stop, take 90 seconds to make a plan, and do that instead.
* Pack less crap. I brought way too much stuff, and used almost none of it.
* Spare paddle? Might be worth keeping a beater around if the logistics support it
* I love Jeff's giant dry bag, but if you actually have to move it anywhere, it just doesn't work for me.
* Ignore short chill spells when portaging. You'll warm back up on the water. No need to layer up and roast just yet.
* I need a more persuasive personality!
Some successes:
* Time targets. Desperate for a ranked finish, I put conservative time marks on most of the final bike (including at the optional o course), which helped us make good choices (mostly to skip everything optional).
* Never give up. We did horrible on the first o section, but kept at it, hoping others may have had issues and we could make it up later. That worked somewhat - there were still bikes, we weren't last, and other teams had issues later.
* Co navigating with Shane. Apparently he and I get along really well as a team. He holds a good bearing, I can keep him on track if he veers, and with both of us in it, we could have good discussions on where we were and what to do. He had a plan I disagreed with, but he made good arguments and convinced me, and he was right so it worked. Only problem rolling him into our team is having just the one set of maps, but maybe we can work on sharing with some Waterloo training sometime.
* Jeff's go slow to go fast winter training rocked - he just kept going and going. Awesome.
* Copy supplemental map points to main map when possible. Then we had an extra set of maps, and the big maps had much better printing quality, rendering them usable!
Probably more but brain is fuzzy.
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Rage Reflections
I think I will have a longer list of potential areas for improvement than Hilary! :)
* Race with vetted fitness or AP log or similar. I wish I were a better person, and I'm certainly no rock star, but having somewhat compatible fitness levels is apparently imperative to my enjoyment. The idling on the final bike was very trying.
* Improve low vis nav. I will strive to get compass bearing work in thick vegetation, and do more night nav. I was okay with readable features during daylight. Also need to work on vague areas - big hills and stuff are easy, now time to bring it home on fussy terrain.
* Better team role definition. We had times where everyone was trying to do the same thing, and times when no one was doing anything, and both were not good!
* Look for extra roads, time permitting. One road was renamed, and goofed us up on the bike. Another decent sized road was not on the USGS and distracted us from the correct semi hidden road that was on USGS.
* Don't do things without a reason, and don't be influenced by other teams. We had moments where people were "it feels like this way", which it turns out is a terrible way to do it. Stop, take 90 seconds to make a plan, and do that instead.
* Pack less crap. I brought way too much stuff, and used almost none of it.
* Spare paddle? Might be worth keeping a beater around if the logistics support it
* I love Jeff's giant dry bag, but if you actually have to move it anywhere, it just doesn't work for me.
* Ignore short chill spells when portaging. You'll warm back up on the water. No need to layer up and roast just yet.
* I need a more persuasive personality!
Some successes:
* Time targets. Desperate for a ranked finish, I put conservative time marks on most of the final bike (including at the optional o course), which helped us make good choices (mostly to skip everything optional).
* Never give up. We did horrible on the first o section, but kept at it, hoping others may have had issues and we could make it up later. That worked somewhat - there were still bikes, we weren't last, and other teams had issues later.
* Co navigating with Shane. Apparently he and I get along really well as a team. He holds a good bearing, I can keep him on track if he veers, and with both of us in it, we could have good discussions on where we were and what to do. He had a plan I disagreed with, but he made good arguments and convinced me, and he was right so it worked. Only problem rolling him into our team is having just the one set of maps, but maybe we can work on sharing with some Waterloo training sometime.
* Jeff's go slow to go fast winter training rocked - he just kept going and going. Awesome.
* Copy supplemental map points to main map when possible. Then we had an extra set of maps, and the big maps had much better printing quality, rendering them usable!
Probably more but brain is fuzzy.