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Skewbrow:

--- Quote from: Redball on 16 Jul 2012, 13:58 --- I asked enough questions to understand the concept. We hiked, saw some of the stations with their punches or stamps. I was fascinated, enough to buy a book about it, but not enough to engage in it. My army basic training 20 years before was far too limited to teach overland navigation. And the indistinct beige on the man's shirt? I'm pretty sure he'd collected burrs as he bushwhacked.

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Nowadays we carry a small piece of plastic with some electronics (a timer chip and a little bit of memory) inside. Next to each control point I can stamp it and the device records the visit. At the finish the organizers can read the data, and verify that I have visited all the control points in the correct order.

Burrs? I have carried some, but that's rare. Occasionally a misjudged choice of route has taken me through bushes of nettles. A more common thing is to end up thigh deep in mud while wading through a swamp or after misjudging my ability to jump across a ditch. Part of the charm, I would say.

Redball:

--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 16 Jul 2012, 18:24 ---I haven't managed to run once yet, but I've done so much walking that I think my fitness won't have suffered too much and I can start running again next week. Hopefully I'll have acclimatised to the heat by then!

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In this climate, it definitely helps to be an early riser. At 6:45 a.m. an hour north of Ft. Eed, it's 23C.

bainidhe_dub:
While the high heat index in DC today is 40C. To which I say: fuuuuuuuuuck that.

Barmymoo:
38C here today. We're in an air-conditioned cafe with ice cream sundaes.

bainidhe_dub:
Has anybody spent Real Money on shoes before? I have a pair of Champion C9's from Target and I'm starting to get a blister because there's too much room/movement around my toes-ball of foot-arch area. I'm liking the whole running thing (I got a girl from work to start too!) but I'm still reluctant to spend the however-much ($100? I dunno) on actual fitted shoes. Plus mine are black and teal and pretty.

Oh yeah I did Week 6 Day 3 today. Not as brutal as Day 2 but something funny happened to my left calf about 10 minutes in? Not sure what to make of that. Plus the fucking blister. And I need to find a longer route, I was up to 2.72 miles today, had to loop back around a bit.

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