Training Log Archive: cmorse

Raining steadily at the start, with no sign of letting up (and it didn't). Another day to try and stay in constant contact. Slightly high to #1, corrected readily, 10s lost. Decided to slow down and try to read the larger features, following an obvious reentrant and then up the hill but misinterpreted the contour spacing and wound up on the ridge S of control before coming back to the proper spur - probably 2 minutes lost - glasses useless already and took them off. Slow and steady hit #3 ok, then L of line to #4 to keep pond in view to L as a handrail, hit trail then R and around marsh - a bunch of folks higher up the hill pulled me slightly R - I couldn't see the terrain so got suckered into drifting - but then it didn't feel right and I came back down to hit the bag just about where I had been heading. Not good... Cleanly around marsh to trail, picked up smallish trail but misread the feature as being in a reentrant sloping down to a flat area, not going up to a flat plateau - probably went right by bag without seeing it and hunted for a long, long time (over 15 mintues) well S of bag before finally heading E to marsh and all teh way up to the N corner where it was completely obvious where I was. Straight, slow compass bearing to control ignoring all features around me (since I couldn't see them in the rain anyway) and right into bag. To #6 I took the trails around and looked for the major reentrant headed up the hill, didn't see it and went past to the next reentrant and spent a good bit of time in the paralell reentrant system to the S before figuring it out and carefully following a straight bearing to the flag. Rest of course was pretty much a slow walk following straight bearings and trying to count the ups/downs and hoping I wound up in the circle. Worked ok for the most part. On #10 I opted to go out to trail and attacked from #14 which I could see from the trail. On #13 I miscounted my ups/downs and spent a couple minutes searching in the green one reentrant system too early before venturing over the small spur to find it in the next one over. Rest ok, but the entire venture was very slow with about a half hour worth of errors mostly due to trying to read terrain when I couldn't see it... 27th out of 32 in M45

Winsplits

ran pretty briskly to starts, then just jogged around real slow to stay warm in the rain.