Training Log Archive: TomN

Setting out remaining controls and water. The water took a lot longer than I anticipated. It wasn't until about noon that I had all of it out, the Yellow course being the last of it. And this was despite having access via all the side roads to the little picnic areas.

I also ended up putting out more of the radio controls than I had expected. I got to the last of them just as Ryan S. was sprinting into the control. I ran up with the e-punch on the radio pole like a spear, and he punched it like that before I planted it in the ground.

It turned out that I managed to get a couple of controls misplaced, for which I am terribly sorry, and unhappy as well. One was in a difficult vegetation area at the top of a long bland slope. I had trouble finding my own streamer, which might have been a clue. The other was in a prominent ditch right by the start/finish, and was inexcusable. I eventually moved it, probably just in time for the control pickup crew to be able to find it. Like nearly all the others, I had visited it from two different directions, and I hit it straight on each time. It's the easy ones that will get you. I should have looked a little more critically at that big ditch.