Training Log Archive: possum

Day 1 of the Armadill-O. Except for a very bad screwup on control 5, my navigation was ok. My route choices could have been better in several instances, however. Worried about starting off and having trouble, I really took the long way around to 1, following trails. My plan for 5 was ok, but I didn't recognize when I had gone too far. So I finally relocated back at the fence corner and trail, where I had been before. This time I had no trouble getting there.

After leaving 5, I could feel a really ouchy sticker in my right big toe. When I got to the road, I stopped, and spent about 5 minutes removing my shoe, and pulling the sticker out of my toe. Then putting the shoe back on. No problems after that, and the vegetation wasn't as bad as the model.

D1 Brown - Splits

After driving from Austin to Sulphur Springs to Cooper Lake, we stopped at packet pickup and I did the model. I should have worn my gaiters and, instead, my right leg around the ankle got really scratched up. Lesson learned. I wore my gaiters Saturday & Sunday.

I was a little slow getting started, because I knew something was wrong. Duh! I always wear my compass on my left thumb, and I had put it on the right. The only control I wasn't spot on was 3. I was avoiding dark green and was a little too far north, but corrected and went around the south and west sides of the depression. After that, ok. Which was really helpful, since I had such a disaster in Georgia. Although the model went to 14, I quit after getting to 9. The model was really helpful in portraying the terrain.

I did a lot of walking around while on vacation in Texas, but this was pretty major, so I am going to log it. Distance and time are estimates, but pretty close. We met with Bob's brother & sister-in-law at Lake Austin, had breakfast in the gazebo, and did our walk. We walked one side of the lake (really more like a river, but they call it a lake) with a little side trip up to see Barton Springs. Then crossed over the bridge and walked back down the other side to another bridge. It was a longer walk than I have done in a while, and, especially on the return side, we kept up a good pace.