Training Log Archive: Swampfox

Day 5. A better day today--navigation went well, and while my legs were sore from yesterday, they held up well enough. The closest they came to going over was some warning tinglings on the steep descent out of the moorland on the way to #7. In a couple of places I had to stop right in the vicinity of controls to figure out where the feature was in the bracken. And the only nervous moment was on #9, where I ended the leg a little high above the I was looking for; I saw the reentrant, but what I saw was a little bit bigger than I expected and not quite where I expected it to be relative to drainage I had just crossed, but after a good look at the map and a quick glance all around, I decided (correctly) the reentrant below me was the only game in town.

I was still losing time on the downhills because of leg soreness, etc., but otherwise it felt like I was at least moving decently. The map was good everywhere I saw, and it was a neat landscape to be in.

My favorite leg may have been #1--a very short leg out of the start to a low, form line knoll which was hard to make out through the bracken towering over it. In my mind a classic Scottish control and, at the very least, nothing like anything we have back home around Laramie!