Mike Garrison
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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, August 10, 2009
Planet Adventure AR Clinics
This Wednesday is the second "Basic Navigation and AR101 Clinic" being hosted by Planet Adventure. The first one was two weeks ago and had quite a good turnout of neary 30 people. Most folks were there for the beginner stuff, but a couple were looking for some more in depth training with naviagation, UTM's and just general AR stuff (mostly wanting to know what it's like to take on your first 24+ hour race).
I volunteered to help out with the advanced nav and AR portion of the clinic. "Advanced" of course is a relative term and in this case it mostly meant "more advanced than someone who has never done this before". As it turns out I have the qualifications for that type of advanced.
My little group started out just talking UTM's, which is one of those things that's really easy to explain to somone in person, but really tricky to convey well in writing*. It didn't take long to get them comfortable with UTM's, so we moved on to other AR related stuff.
*- I tried to come up with a one sheet primer on UTM's but failed miserably. I'll hopefully get it done some day because I have seen a lot of UTM tutorials out there and there isn't one that I've seen that is "perfect" for the complete novice.
It was a lot of fun and we ended up being out there for over 2 1/2 hours talking AR. We covered everything from gear to food to strategy to teammates. Feedback from the beginners session was really positive as well. Just an hour or so talking about the sport with experienced people really seemed to ease peoples minds before their first race.
Adventure racing really is a great sport for first timers. Pretty much every race I've been to has had lots of helpful people from staff to volunteers to racers. I can say from experience that a first adventure race is WAY less intimidating than a first road race (cycling).
Hopefully we'll keep seeing these clinics and maybe even some discussion sessions specifically for more experienced folks to talk about what they have found does and doesn't work.
posted by Garrison at
1:52 PM
1 Comments:
you will have a challenge tonight my friend - I'm officially going to learn how to navigate (yikes!)
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