Training Log Archive: boyle

Event: OOC "The Barrens" Classic (B-meet) and Long Distance
 

After yesterday's fiasco, I was desperate for some learning time, even if it was on technical terrain. I'm not a fan of Carp Ridge terrain as it's beyond my meagre navigational skills, which are particularly lacking with so little recent time in the forests with a map. I went slow, used compass, read map, so slow that I actually fell short of controls. I'm used to noting my errors after I'm long past controls. Things were going fine, if slow, until I stopped to chat with Ralph in leg 5. I flailed about until getting back on track before control 8. Skirting green en route to 9, I drifted right and hit control 16 before 9. The rest was straightforward. For curiosity sake, I considered following trail/road to 15 just to check out conditions. Slow and careful is fine for training but too much time, energy and calories had been spent by 13. I ran the road home. Thanks Jeff!!!

When you can't see trail on ground, look for plastic flashes in trees.

Cell phone under map does effect compass.

After nearly 2000k, my shoes were finally put in the garbage.