Training Log Archive: abiperk

Family run/hike/bushwhack/creek exploration

C • My favorite! 2

Through Wiss and onto Plymouth Meeting to meet broots and Z for an after school matinee. Moderate pack. 70 degrees!

A chat with bpg459 about possible XPD 2020 childcare scenarios provided motivation for an extra couple miles.

DVOA sprint-o at Norristown Farm Park, first of the season. Between snow melt and 24 hours of rain the woods were super messy, so took my time through all the standing water and old corn husks. I did okay for the first couple controls, then really struggled at #3. It was off the side of a silo, so should have been easy enough to locate, but I just couldn't right myself. I found a flag was in the right-ish spot, marked 33 instead of the 43 I was looking for. Double checked my position by finding 4, 7, and 8, and had myself half-convinced that someone had just placed the wrong flag (knowing that that doesn't really happen). After nearly half an hour, I finally just gave in and punched the one marked 33 and continued on with no further issues. As expected, that was a CP on a different course, maybe 25-50 meters from where I needed to be. Still fun to be out in the woods.

I forgot to start my watch until after the first control, so route and time are marginally incomplete.