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Team RWB "Elite" Obstacle Course Race

October 11, 2015 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: mid-80s, HOT when you're running hard!

Comments:
The second installment of the "Elite" heat of the OCR. The campers went first, and we counselors manned the various (nearly 20) obstacles. Then, it was our turn.

I was a little tired and haggard, but excited to run hard! I warmed up a bit, and even ate some sugar, then suited up. Went no HRM, as I felt it was constricting, but I wonder what it wound up being.

Here's how the course went down. Bullets are easier.

- starts 400m flat
- rugged downhill to a old concrete wall (ran across the top, about 1' wide, 300' long)
- rugged rocky riverside (800m)
- up and over a BMX style ramp (6')
- up a steep rugged hill (50')
- "reverse rope crawl" - hang from a rope and crawl a distance of about 20'
- tire swing jump-through
- walk run across two logs
- long open straight back to camp
- rugged tech trail through a drainage
- steep up back to camp
- "jump the rocks" - had to run over these border boulders - about 20 of them
- weaving through trees (400m)
- The Mine Shaft - scoot through a pitch-dark culvert (300')
- rope swing - wall climb
- sled carry up the hill, then slide down (100' hill!!)
- run tot he river (600m)
- rugged run along river + wade in river (400m, 100m, 800m)
- run past the slide, then up the steep wall to upper camp, above the river
- run to the TOP of the 3-story waterslide + slide down
- pop out of the water, climb the stairs (3-story)
- 30m sprint to the finish!

Race:
- Jason Bryant took it out hard, as usual, but there was no Max King to push. Not many of us were psyched to push hard, so at first I got stuck behind Dom again. Nosaj got out in front of us both and after Jason along the river, and I had to SURGE to get around Dom (not wanting to get caught behind him like last year) just before the BMX ramp.

From there, it was chasing after Jason and Jason, while another guy, Chris-something (the new RD owner of Tejas Trails - young guy, who looks SUPER fit), and I battled back and forth: through the tire (dove through!), across the logs, through the rugged shit and rocks, then over to the mine. I caught up to him after the mine and rope - climbing wall, and was on his ass after the slide. But by then I was MAJORLY red-lining. Once at the river, I was right behind him, but he was simply faster than me on the rugged, wet riverside rocks.

But I wasn't about to give up. I grunted up to the top of the cliff, with only minutes to go, and was just behind him as we got to the slide. But I struggled with my lifejacket, which was too damn small!

The water slide was awesome: TWO plastic ribbon slides, so big you can't see into them. So when I got to it, I didn't know which one he went into. I thought I'd seen some splashes in the RIGHT slide, so I went in the left, grabbing the top bar to WHIP myself into the slide!

Well I'll goddamned if he was IN the left slide...going slow! So I'm FLYING down about to crash into him. I had to spread my feet and push to the side to avoid kicking him in the head. We splooshed into the water almost instantaneously!

"I guess it's ON!"

But he got out of the water before me, but I wasn't done. I HAULED ASS up the stairs 'til I was right behind him, whipping around the corner for the homestretch. I pushed as hard as I could...but could not out lean him. Through a throng of campers, we finished 3-4, maybe 30-45 seconds behind Bryant and Schlarb.

FUN TIMES. Felt good to push hard, but it was foreign, for sure. Glad I could use this as a "anaerobic workout"!

Dom and Terranova were well behind us.

PM: cleaned up, then had a fun BBQ and beers to wrap up a great camp!!