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Personal Summary
Always striving to push my limits and see how good my best is.
- TRAINING LOG
- Athletic Summary
- Upcoming Events
- Adventure Racing
- October 22-24, USARA Nationals, Pilot Point TX
- 2009 Fall Sprint; Story Indiana
- 2009 Indianapolis Adventure Race, (2nd Overall)
- 2009 Thunder Rolls 24 Hr AR, (2nd Overall)
- 2009 PA Urban Sprint, (1st Overall)
- 2009 Midget AR, (1st division)
- 2009 Mission 18 Hr AR, (1st Overall)
- 2009 Planet Adventure Sprint, (1st Coed, 2nd Overall)
- 2009 LBL Challenge 24Hr, (5th Coed, 5th Overall)
- 2008 PA Sprint Redux
- 2008 Indianapolis Adventure Race, (1st Coed, 4th Overall)
- 2008 PA Urban Sprint (2nd Coed, 2nd Overall)
- 2008 Infiterra Adventure Rage 30 hr (7th)
- 2008 Odyssey Wild, Wonderful 24 hr; New River Gorge, WV (4th overall)
- 2007 PA Urban Sprint; Indianapolis, IN (2nd coed, 2nd overall)
- 2007 Odyssey Wild Wonderful 24 hr; New River Gorge, WV (1st premier)
- 2007 PA 24-Hour Challenge; Tell City, IN (5th co-ed,7th overall)
- 2007 Sunflower 24 hr; Lawrence, KS (13th overall)
- 2006 Adventure Rage 30Hr; Cadillac, MI (8th overall)
- 2006 Odyssey Wild Wonderful 15-Hr; (1st Male, 4th Overall)
- 2006 PA Sprint; Brown County, IN (2nd co-ed, 3rd overall)
- 2006 PA 24-Hour Challenge; Leavenworth, IN (17th overall)
- 2005 Indianapolis Adventure Race (2nd Division, 3rd Overall)
- 2005 PA Sprint; Valley Branch, IN (2nd Division, 5th Overall)
- 2004 Circle City Sprint - Indianapolis (10th division)
- 2004 PA Sprint; Clark State Forest, IN (1st Division, 2nd Overall)
- 2004 PA 24 Hr Challenge; Owen-Outman Counties, IN (15th Overall)
- 2003 Midwest Fury; French Lick, IN (1st overall)
- 2003 Wild Scallion; Chicago (10th Division)
- 2003 Indianapolis Adventure Race; Long Course (10th Overall)
- 2003 Circle City Sprint - Indianapolis
- 2003 Benchmark Appalachian; Portsmouth, OH (2nd Division, 18th Overall)
- Orienteering & Rogaines
- 2009 ICO Orienteering Meet, Story, IN
- 2009 Conquer the Crossroads Rogaine, (1st, 6hr course)
- 2006 ICO 12 Hour Rogaine - Brownstown, IN (4th overall)
- 2005 Conquer the Crossroads 12 hour Rogaine (1st Overall)
- 2004 Conquer the Crossroads 12 hour Rogaine (3rd Division, 7th overall)
- 2004 Indianapolis Metrogaine (3 hour)
- Running
- 2009 TNT 5k; Horizon Camp, 8th
- 2009 Dances with Dirt; Gnawbone, IN
- 2007 Tecumseh Trail Marathon
- 2003 Tecumseh Trail Marathon
- 2003 River to River Stage Run (Illinois)
- 2002 Chicago Marathon
- 1998-2005 Indianapolis mini marathon
- Cycling
- 2009 Three State Three Mountain Century; Chattanooga, TN
- 2009 Brown County State Park Road Race
- Other
- Downhill skiing since 1990
- Climbing and mountaineering since 1992
Monday, July 27, 2009
Whoops
After my last AR in the middle of May I took about a month off from any real training. We were getting ready for PA, and I was pretty beat from a lot of racing in the spring, (A lot by my standards anyways.) so it seemed like good timing.
After PA I started getting back into training, primarily on my road bike, (and I was having a lot of fun with it.) I was riding frequently, and pretty hard, so I didn't spend much (any) time running.
Due to recent unfortunate circumstances (that I'll get into shortly, as in, it's earned it's own post that I haven't quite finished yet) I've been unable to ride my road bike the past 9 or 10 days.
So, I've taken the opportunity to get in more running. I've managed to get in 20+ miles in 5 days. I ran 6 miles both Saturday and Sunday. Now I know for actual runners (which I will never claim to be) that's not a lot but it's come as quite a shock to my system.
Mostly my legs.
I'm sore. Like, surprisingly sore.
Which is where the whoops comes in.
I've got my first 5k since 2001 coming up. And by coming up, I mean tomorrow. I'm running the PA TNT race at Horizon, and although I never had any aspirations of doing anything impressive, I would prefer not to embarass myself.
Seeing as how the focus of most of my racing is endurance for events for events 24 hours long I don't spend a lot of time working on my "top end". Still, it might have been wise to look at my calendar and not done the crash course in footwork the last few days.
So, short of some kind of recovery miracle, meeting that modest goal of embarassment avoidance might be kind of tough.
Whoops.
Oh well, I'll just have to keep reminding myself that I'm an adventure racer, not a 5k runner and have fun!
(Credit for the "I'm an adventure racer, not a "insert sport your doing poorly at here" goes to someone else, and is another good topic for a blog post...)
posted by Garrison at
5:03 PM
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