Active Rest Day. I will be taking a full rest day tomorrow.
I land navigated for...3 hours. In this environment:
That. Sucked. I shot bearing after bearing at an object 5 feet ahead of me. Move up five feet through brambles. Shoot another. It was horrible. The vegetation was all thick - the two pictures above I took today and are fairly accurate of the conditions - and it was very hilly. All hills. No flat open areas of relief, not even for 30-40 meters. All dark, covered rolling hills (not "gently rolling" crap either. You'd have to hold onto branches and stuff to avoid falling down while descending).
After a good 3 hours of "fun" land-navigating I realized I was never going to make it to my end point before sunset. So when I crossed a trail, I went ahead and started speed marching on it. I didn't have my ruck, I did have boots, so I figured it'd be a good way to break in my feet a little.
So - once I started hitting up the trails - I speed marched for right around 9 miles.
Lots of elevation gain. One area had 800 feet in a mile and a half, alone...
Overall mileage is probably somewhere around 10-11 miles (Yep - that means an entire 1 - 2 miles was covered in 3 hours while land navigating! And I wasn't going taking it easy...)
No blisters on my feet. Red spots yes. Blisters, no. This is good.
No pain in my tibia either! What a strange creature my tibia seems to be. Running 400 meters hurts, hiking 10 miles does not.
