Well, the Saga is over. We lost our last game 7-6 to Princeton. The boys came back from 7-3 deficit and the winning run was on second base when the game ended. Freddy did not pitch well but he hit well. He kept the rally going in the last inning with 2 outs and a full count he drove in the 6th run. Had we won we would of had to play yesterday and tonight. The weight of the world in now off my shoulders!!! I do not think my contract will be renewed!!!
Training...Logged 55 miles this week not the 68 in the Transrockie schedule. But I feel pretty good about training. Ran 15 on Saturday again full pack ,11 on Sunday morning then went on a 4 mile hike in the afternoon. I forgot to reset my garmin so it combined my Friday run with Saturday so at the 26.2 mile mark I checked the time it was 4:35. I was happy about that even it was over a two day span. My pace was consistence with the pack. After the 3 days my legs felt pretty decent, I felt the miles but it was not horrible. Was able to run an easy 4 today and my legs felt good after the 1st mile. Will take tomorrow off and start trying to rebuild the body. Hope to get my trail shoes by Friday from Roadrunners and run a couple mini long runs in them.
George, Sat said he is having difficulty getting info on the shuttle to Buena Vista. I told him I thought you had looked into that for us. If you have could you let him know.
Steve, has the same view I have with the Transrockie folks...they are not answering any question for the participants. I am going to read his blog tonight. He thinks total miles could be 110.
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I emailed TransRockies to ask about information regarding size of the duffel bag - as that'd help us plan. As it is I have no idea how much stuff it will take.
I also queried the stage 1 distance...the response just contained this url:
http://www.competitornorcal.com/features/crossing-the-rockies-in-style.html
I reckon stage 1 is likely to be about 18 miles - hence that would make it a total of 110 ish miles for the week.
Yeah I saw the times for the shuttle on the TRR site - but it says "minimum 6 passenger for it to run", also not sure we'll be out of customs etc by 7pm...I'll try and ring them and find out if there's a later shuttle etc.
I dont think we dont need to send the passport size photo in advance - we need to take it with us to sign-on at Buena Vista.
I assume we'll get some more details closer to the date. I'll post a comment on "Mountain Girl's" blog to see if she can remember how far apart the aid stations were.
Shame about the LL - I was looking forward to seeing how you were going to fit training in while involved with LL matches ;)
Sat
I found this on the TransRockie web page the size of the bag is
36”x16”x16.
I bought a North Face base camp duffel bag extra large its roughly the same size. Mountaingear.com.
Hope that helps.
The following is an e-mail I received from Jenn Lutz...
"Hi Steve
Thanks for the email - we are addressing the subject of final course routing in the next Participant Update very soon. At the moment we are in last-minute mode for the TransRockies bike race in British Columbia, and as the Director of Events for TransRockies usually looks after the forum responses and he is incredibly busy at the moment, it's possible that some inquiries on the forum have not gotten quick responses. I will look into this and see if we can't get some responses up ASAP.
In the meantime, for your information, below is a copy of an email from Aaron (Director of Events) to a TR Run participant who inquired about course changes last week. This should help you to understand why the final course will be shorter than initially planned, and yet still more challenging and scenic than last year's course.
On the topic of the Stage 1, there is a shuttle involved - it has to do with the shortening of the course that day to get rid of "junk miles" on the road, which is something we received a lot of feedback about after last year's race (more in the email response below on this topic).
Also, this recent article should help you get better acquainted with the route:
http://www.competitornorcal.com/features/crossing-the-rockies-in-style.html
Here is Aaron's email response:
"Thanks for your note. To start, I hope you don't feel cheated and I don't think you will once you see the route. We always make the participant experience, safety, and challenge first priority and we collect significant feedback following each of our event to help us improve in following years.
The reason for the change is partly permit related, but also partly our decision to remove sections of the route that did not add anything to the positive experience of the race. We removed a cumulative 14 miles from the end of stage 1 and the start of stage 2 which was all paved road and gravel road running. Since we knew that we would be required to shuttle runners anyway between these stages, we felt strongly (based on feedback from last year) that the runners would prefer to avoid the long "junk miles" that would only otherwise there to satisfy the distance.
Unfortunately, given the lead times that we work with on permits with the Forest Service, we do not have the ability to do re-routes after the route has completed the public scoping process, which was done in March of this year. As much as possible we permit multiple options, but in this case, there was not a more attractive option (from a running perspective) to increase the distance. We will have our 2009 proposal submitted before this year's race takes place, but we are learning more every year about the options available to us.
As last week was the first time possible (due to snow conditions and seasonal wildlife closures) to do our final course inspection, and collect GPS data, we wanted to do this before updating the published course profiles etc. There was also some change in the course distance once the "on-the-ground" measurements were taken. All of our published course data is subject to permits and conditions, and we must reserve the right to make these changes due to the nature of the event and the vast number of permits required. The published percentages of surface type data will also be updated soon to reflect the reduced proportion of road. Following our route inspection last week, I can tell you that this year's route is much tougher than last year's, even if the distance is similar, due to much less pavement and road running, and more elevation. I think many people will be surprised by the toughness of it.
We will be making a note of the change in our next participant email as you suggest - yours is the first feedback we have received, but then we just posted the updated profiles. I really think this change is a big positive for the participants, so I hope you will keep an open mind and reserve judgement until August 30th.
Thanks for your understanding and I look forward to meeting you in Buena Vista!"
Maybe shaking the tree did some good after all....
Steve
Thanks for the follow-up. I appreciate it. Good to know that there are some Transrockie people out there!
Read your blog...how do you run 50 miles in one day and get a nap and a beer in ?
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