Training Log Archive: TomN

Training exercise at Prince William National Forest Park. Each person was assigned a control to set. Starting from your control, you were to complete the route in a circle back to your control, take it down, and return to the start area. For most of us, it didn't quite go according to plan. The courses (2 options, long and short) were long for the time limit, and I think everyone skipped at least one control. I hung my control in what turned out to be the wrong reentrant, relocated, and spent 20 minutes trying to find where I had hung it. Gave up, went out on the course, somehow managed to get way off route and fetched up on the road just off the north side of the map. At that point I figured it was time to go back to look for my control. Eventually found it by retracing my steps. Now I know where it was and where it should have been, and it was a pretty tough spot.

Ended up with not much total distance and a lot of walking. It was hot and humid, but the forest was actually pretty nice.