Orienteering race 1:53:00 [3]
A Meet, Green. Today was a different story from yesterday. I had massive amounts of trouble with #5. I was picturing in my head that the control was in a depression on a plateau. Instead, it was in a depression in the bottom of an even bigger depression. And, there was a plateau in front of that depression, which I searched for a long time looking for my control. I finally circled around again, getting back to the line I took from #4 and going further towards 5 than before. I got to the lip of the really big depression, looked down, and thought, "That cannot be my control!" Since going downhill is the most difficult movement for my knee, I was hesitant to go down and check it, but finally I did, thinking the whole time, "That is not my control." But it was.
After that, I lost a lot of motivation. My only advantage at this point is the ability to spike the controls since I'm going so slow. After 5, I realized I was done. Especially since the last half of the course involved a lot of trail running for those people who could run. So, I decided to just enjoy the day and the navigation...until a minor disaster struck. I was on my way to #11, skipping between trails, when I stepped on a fallen tree limb that was wet and covered in leaves, slid down the limb and bent my bad knee beyond where it can presently bend. I immediately fell and let out a series of screams and curse words. And then I got worried that I had done something really bad. I gingerly stood up and tested everything out. It felt like I did something to the right front of my knee, like bruised it, but nothing to the ACL, thank goodness.
After that, I went even slower, but not slow enough to spike #12...with the same problem as #5! I thought I was looking for a depression on top of a hill, but instead it was a depression at the bottom of a really steep depression. Again..."that is not my control," but it was. Bah!
So, last in F45, over 100 minutes, and a painful knee. Not such a great orienteering day, but still a fun weekend! Thanks to Badger Orienteering for a fantastic event!