americanbwana
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- Sep 3, 2017
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Man one of the things I dislike about elk hunting is getting completely spent on day one of the hunt.
I spend all summer long running and getting shape, yet by the end of day one I\'m exhausted . My legs are cramped up, and my arse is dragging.
This happened to me last year. I\'d spent the better part of the summer carrying my training back pack with 50+ lbs of sand, was running, and dropped 20 lbs.
Opening day, I got up, made sure to eat, drank an extra bottle of water then headed off. The tactic that morning was to silent call. So I went about .5 mile from camp (not a steep climb, almost level actually), sat and called for an hour, then moved a quarter mile and did it again. At each break I made sure to drink water and have some trail mix. However by about 11 AM I was spent.
I looked at the GPS track when I got back to to the house and saw that I had only traveled a little over a mile that day. I even strapped the pack on (With training weight) and did my 4.25 mile walk in about an hour and 15 without an issue.
Honestly I can\'t understand it. What did I do wrong? :dk:
AB
I spend all summer long running and getting shape, yet by the end of day one I\'m exhausted . My legs are cramped up, and my arse is dragging.
This happened to me last year. I\'d spent the better part of the summer carrying my training back pack with 50+ lbs of sand, was running, and dropped 20 lbs.
Opening day, I got up, made sure to eat, drank an extra bottle of water then headed off. The tactic that morning was to silent call. So I went about .5 mile from camp (not a steep climb, almost level actually), sat and called for an hour, then moved a quarter mile and did it again. At each break I made sure to drink water and have some trail mix. However by about 11 AM I was spent.
I looked at the GPS track when I got back to to the house and saw that I had only traveled a little over a mile that day. I even strapped the pack on (With training weight) and did my 4.25 mile walk in about an hour and 15 without an issue.
Honestly I can\'t understand it. What did I do wrong? :dk:
AB