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Sunday Oct 7, 2018 #
Event: QOC Patuxent
11 AM
Orienteering race (More like Peppering) 1:32:55 [2] 3.59 mi (25:53 / mi) +56m 24:41 / mi
...or trying to find Pepper...
http://qocweb.org/routes/cgi-bin/reitti.pl?act=map...
Perhaps I will get around to elaborating on this adventure.
But, most importantly, I didn't do any damage to my surgically repaired Achilles, and, I didn't lose Pepper. Which would have been really bad, considering we have been approved to have Dorothy join the family on October 20.
So, Pepper and I go to the Start, and Pepper heads towards the trail to #3, and I do a 90, thinking I should go towards the Finish to get to #1. Sort it out and walk back to the Start, sans Pepper, so I ask Alli to grab my phone at this point, so I can see where Pepper is. She pops out of the brush, and eventually we get going in the correct direction to #1, but I really should have listened to the kid from Loudoun who opinions that this mess is the price I pay for having a dog off leash.
Get 1 and 2, but Pepper is free wheeling again and ends up back at the Download, and she is secured with Barney's extra leash and sitting with Amy. I grab the 30 foot leash from the car and we head to #3. Controls 3-4-5-6-7 go quite well, though the long leash is not easy to manage, so I let Pepper off again. Luckily, I reattach her before the road, and just before many deer run across the trail.
After 7, I decide that I am really tired of just running, er, walking on the trail, and after we had caught up to this same couple again, and I am quite hot, so why not visit the creek on the way?! End up in a swampy re-entrant thinking it was the creek, but quite gross, but then finally the bigger water, which Pepper and I enjoy, and at this point I have to let go, because she is wrapping us around every tree in the forest. So, now, she is running around with this long leash trailing behind her, and me no where close. This was more worrying than no leash at all, because I picture her hanging herself. After we get back to 7 for the second time, I unclip and we head to 8, on the trail this time, no fancy side trips.
Somewhere in the mess of the overgrown trail in and out of 8, we get separated, and despite calling and calling, no Pepper, so I head in. My foot is barking at this point, so it is wiser to bail and hope the tracker is reliable. Head straight back from 9, because 10 and 11 are just plain stupid anyway.
Grab the phone and drive back to 5 and was able to call Pepper, who ran right to me.
So sorry for the angst I caused to Pepper's fans. I will try to avoid this in the future. Pepper slept from 7 pm to 8 am after her adventure. Nice to see her worn out. Wish we could do this safely more often.
http://qocweb.org/routes/cgi-bin/reitti.pl?act=map...
Perhaps I will get around to elaborating on this adventure.
But, most importantly, I didn't do any damage to my surgically repaired Achilles, and, I didn't lose Pepper. Which would have been really bad, considering we have been approved to have Dorothy join the family on October 20.
So, Pepper and I go to the Start, and Pepper heads towards the trail to #3, and I do a 90, thinking I should go towards the Finish to get to #1. Sort it out and walk back to the Start, sans Pepper, so I ask Alli to grab my phone at this point, so I can see where Pepper is. She pops out of the brush, and eventually we get going in the correct direction to #1, but I really should have listened to the kid from Loudoun who opinions that this mess is the price I pay for having a dog off leash.
Get 1 and 2, but Pepper is free wheeling again and ends up back at the Download, and she is secured with Barney's extra leash and sitting with Amy. I grab the 30 foot leash from the car and we head to #3. Controls 3-4-5-6-7 go quite well, though the long leash is not easy to manage, so I let Pepper off again. Luckily, I reattach her before the road, and just before many deer run across the trail.
After 7, I decide that I am really tired of just running, er, walking on the trail, and after we had caught up to this same couple again, and I am quite hot, so why not visit the creek on the way?! End up in a swampy re-entrant thinking it was the creek, but quite gross, but then finally the bigger water, which Pepper and I enjoy, and at this point I have to let go, because she is wrapping us around every tree in the forest. So, now, she is running around with this long leash trailing behind her, and me no where close. This was more worrying than no leash at all, because I picture her hanging herself. After we get back to 7 for the second time, I unclip and we head to 8, on the trail this time, no fancy side trips.
Somewhere in the mess of the overgrown trail in and out of 8, we get separated, and despite calling and calling, no Pepper, so I head in. My foot is barking at this point, so it is wiser to bail and hope the tracker is reliable. Head straight back from 9, because 10 and 11 are just plain stupid anyway.
Grab the phone and drive back to 5 and was able to call Pepper, who ran right to me.
So sorry for the angst I caused to Pepper's fans. I will try to avoid this in the future. Pepper slept from 7 pm to 8 am after her adventure. Nice to see her worn out. Wish we could do this safely more often.