...If I was goin somehwere...I wuz walking

 19 Mar 2009 02:47:51 am

Yeah walking...speed walking actually. The field portion of earning your red card for wild fire suppression is called a pack test. For the pack test you must walk for 3 miles with a 45lb pack on your person, and you have to do it in 45minutes, if you don't you fail and get to do it all again. If you do the math that means walk a 15minute mile, no running aloud, which means it's about a 4mph walk. Yikes, I know that I have poked fun one or two times at the "speed walkers" around the mall, but holy crap I'm here to tell you it aint easy. The first place you feel it is your calf's, and it creeps up from there by the end of it everything from your belly button down is yelling at you...It didn't help we practiced on a road, asphalt = ouch.

My time was 41 minutes, and all and all I think I handled it pretty well. I certainly wasn't dead afterwards. I may be a little soar come morning, but I will live. My whole crew actually made it, so we now know how to pace ourselves for the real deal next week.

Tomorrow there is a rumor going around that we will be playing with chainsaws again, looking forward to it...and the weekend

-one last happy bday to my sis

Take care all

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