Purge
If you could only use what you could fit in your back pack, for one week, what would you take, what would you leave behind? I had to make that choice on the evening before I left into the desert in October in Chile. I was running a seven day adventure race. We have many mandatory items and a few choices on food and clothing. The trick is to take everything you need, and be as light as possible. Carrying extra weight through the desert can make things difficult. In fact, it contributed to significantly wearing me down in my first two races. As I was doing a fall cleaning this weekend, I was reminded how life follows you into the desert. I like to get as much use as possible out of things I buy, maybe I keep them a little too long. Keeping “extra” things in the desert can clutter your chances of success. Holding on to the comforts of home, can short change getting back to nature and weigh you down. When …