Training Log Archive: furlong47

Went to a camping weekend for adult (21+) Girl Scout Alumnae at Camp Conowingo in Maryland. This was a lot of fun but a very packed schedule and also exhausting! I did not know anybody there to start with but there were a few others from Pennsylvania. Went down right after work on Friday. We had dinner and did tie-dye and then had a campfire with snacks and adult beverages. I had requested a platform tent to sleep in, but there were some mistakes on the packets and I ended up in a yurt with a bunch of their former counselors. On Saturday AM I found the inside of my packet did list the tent but I wasn't about to pack everything up and move.

The first activity I did on Sunday was archery. I never did this before and learned pretty fast. By the end I was hitting the target with all 4 arrows and even got 2 bullseyes.

The next activity was this hike on the All States Nature Trail. It turned out there was no facilitator for this, so they pointed us in the direction of the trail and off we went. There were blazes, sort of, but the trail itself was not maintained and petered out very quickly into everything being covered with leaves. We were down along the stream just walking along but then came to a massive steep sidehill so we had to turn back. There were still some blazes here but they made the trail go in a loop. A former counselor caught up to us here but she couldn't really find the trail either, so we climbed back essentially to where we started and then went through the woods by their old ropes course, along the back of a few units, and then came back into the main section of camp on the dirt road.

After lunch I had kayaking (and some people did canoeing) which turned out to be on a pretty small pond. But it was fun to paddle and float around even if there wasn't much to explore after a few minutes. There was also a duck named Gerald who showed up on the pond recently and is very friendly (looks like a cross between a mallard and some domestic duck) and it was funny as he followed everybody around.

I left my last activity period open (did not want to try high ropes) so I drove to the other side of the camp to hike around and check it out. (The camp is 600 acres and has two distinct sections, really almost like 2 separate camps. It is possible to walk between them but would have taken more time than I had before dinner, and also I wasn't totally sure of the way.) They have a cool old house called Bell Manor (supposedly haunted), their stables which I of course had to check out, and a few more camping units. I also found the other end of the hiking trail we had attempted earlier. I did not check to see if this part was any better.

After I went back I took a brief nap. Then we had more arts and crafts (tin punch), dinner, a Scout's Own ceremony using the tin punch lanterns, and another campfire. The fire tonight was conveniently in the unit where I was staying, but this also meant people were outside talking until almost 2 AM so I didn't get so much sleep.

Private lesson on Cricket. I jumped a crossrail 6 times - progress.

Walk 3 min @ 3.5, run 1.5 min @ 5.0

One scotoma today, right before lunch while I was training a new employee. At least the worst of it was while I was eating, but felt dull the rest of the day.

C • Migraine related? 2