Training Log Archive: Gswede

Accommodations for US Orienteering Team training camps: https://photos.app.goo.gl/E3KKNBcmzWr85wiz5

Intervals in the Northwest section of Hickory Run, the State Game Lands. Old map, but a really great place for difficult orienteering. Dense vegetation and a relative lack of features got me VERY lost here. I had to bail to a trail because there was no relocating. It's good to have my limits challenged like this, but extremely frustrating at the same time.

On a positive note, I saw a porcupine while I was bailing to the trail.

And on Eric W's recommendation, I picked up some protective glasses. Other than wanting to keep my eyes safe, I'm running too slow here while trying to protect my face. Also, getting hit in the eyes constantly means that I'm looking less at the terrain and looking less at the map. Now I've just got to keep them from fogging up.

Maze course on Gould's Run. This went really well. The protective glasses were a great buy. I was able to maintain my flow the entire course. I didn't get tripped up even in the thickest part of the forest. It actually made orienteering here enjoyable. I haven't felt that way too often in Hickory Run.

I do have to say that I couldn't find the boulder on the hilltop. But with all the beech saplings in that area, you'd need x-ray glasses to see it.