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
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