Packing & Training
Laura and I finally sat down today and started to divide up the food and whatnot. We had 160$ worth of food - and found out it would only last roughly 35 days. EEK! So, we're off to Auldi's tomorrow. My beginning pack weight right now is 33 lbs. We had hoped for 25, ha, but it's not so bad. After Laura left, my dad decided to take me on a training hike. We went out near woodcock... walked around in the mudd a little, two and a half hours later I'm getting a little sore. We walked to Blooming Valley and back, visited some corn fields near route 77 - it was quite a hike, especially when he decided we should do a little "cross-country" as he called it. It wouldn't have been that bad if i weren't limbo-ing under grape vines lower than my knees, or hurdling logs higher than my thighs. Anyways, it was a good practice run. We'll probably do a few more. The only place that hurt after the hike was my shoulders. And, as you can see below, we stopped to take a few pictures. Enjoy!
posted by elsiezion | 22:27
1 Comments:
"lauren, i am so excited for you! good job on the training run...you will no doubtedly be the studliest member of the sball team come august! also, i love the pictures, but you're a lot cleaner in these pics than you will be in the near future on the AT! you should have rolled around in the mud to make it more of a realistic training run for yourself because you'll be carrying around pounds of dirt with you as well as that 33 lb backpack!" -Jen
*I didn't realize the comments were set to only teammembers - the comments are now open so I expect all ya'll to be leaving feedback for me!
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