Training Log Archive: schristoph

First training in Finland! Started with 3 mini loops focusing on distance estimation. I went pretty slow the first part to get used to the terrain. Second part I ran in a group with Sarah and Caroline taking turns leading or following without looking at the map. I kept getting thrown off with the bare rock areas.


Control challenge: 297

For this training we each picked our own 2-3k course from a set of controls. This one went pretty badly for me. I found 61 and 38 with not too much trouble other than the problem that I wrote the number 61 right in the way of my attack. I think I got off on my compass to 53 because I ended up in some weird marshy area that didn't match my map and eventually got to the clearcut west of the control. I found the circle from there but there was no marker, so I wasted another 10 minutes looking around and thinking I was lost before deciding I wasn't going to find it. 52 I got to the small hilltop just northwest of 52 and wasted a lot of time being disoriented, looking at the hill 52 was on and wondering where it was on the map before I saw Jan Erik get it and realized how stupidI was. We had to be back by 5:45 and it was already 5:50 so I had to cut my course there. Took a bad bearing out of 52 and somehow hit the south side of the yellow marsh. There were good parts but a lot of bad parts.

Control challenge: 301