orienteering race (Day 2 long race) 1:12:00 [4]
(injured) shoes: Asics Gel 2130
This was the day that broke me - literally!
I wombled a bit on the way to the first control, getting used to the scale, climbed down into the creek/erosion and then back up out again at the second control when I didn't need to do that, found the rootmound controls in the bland forest pretty cleanly even though I don't think they should have been used as control features (and maybe not mapped?), had trouble with number 8 along the overgrown creek (partly my fault because I overshot it, but I'm not convinced the map matched the ground at that point), nearly ran to the second-last control after the spectator control because of all the lines crossing on my map (this time no one saw me) and then on the way to number 13, disaster struck!
I jumped a log in the bracken, a sticking-up bit caught my foot, and as I went down, that bit went into my shin just below my knee. There was a lot of blood, and I felt kind of lightheaded, so I lay on the ground for a bit, took my O pants off and wrapped them round my leg, decided I could hobble to the next control, scared a guy because I had no pants on, decided to put them back on because the bleeding had stopped and I dared not walk up the finish chute in my underwear, scared Briohny because I was sitting on the ground putting my pants on, then I took about half an hour to walk back across the paddocks. Thankfully Blair wasn't on commentary at the time.
The hole in my leg was not a pretty sight but there was no stick sticking in it, and only the smallest hole in my O pants, so I figured no point filling out forms for St Johns when Rachael could look at it (she's an Ambo). I've never had stitches yet and it looked too ragged to stitch (my decision) so that record remains unbroken.
I was on 72 min at the previous control so would probably have done about 95 for the whole course?