Orienteering race 1:11:25 [3] 3.82 mi (18:42 / mi) +130ft 18:07 / mi
shoes: Montrail Mt Masochist Mar 2011
Webster Park, Green course. I didn't do too badly for the most part; however my already slow pace was slowed even more when I took a pretty hard fall (tripped on a ruined wire fence) and landed with my right arm under the upper left part of my chest. Definitely knocked the wind out of me!
Thanks to Rob Holmes and Jim Borden who were both nearby, for stopping and checking on me. After lying there for 15 seconds or so and then slowly getting up, I decided I wasn't hurt badly enough to need any assistance, so I thanked them for checking and said that they could keep going on their courses. (In looking at the GPS trace, the tumble happened at 36:42 and quite surprisingly, the trace says I was moving again by 37:10. Sure felt like long than 28 seconds to me!)
For a number of minutes after falling, I was going very slowly just from being a bit shook up, then I got over that part of it. But when I tried to do even some slow running, my chest was complaining. And now that I'm home, it still doesn't feel all that spiffy. So I suspect that I bruised a rib or two, or even cracked them. But I've had a truly broken rib before, and that hurt distinctly more than this does, so I don't think it's real bad. Hopefully something that will cure itself in a short amount of time (days, I'm optimistically thinking, as opposed to weeks).
Update after taking a shower: Sustained a couple of small cuts, one in my ear and one on my nose where my glasses sit (apparently the fall pushed the glasses into my face a bit). Chest not feeling any better, possibly a little worse. Definitely no pickleball will be played today! (Which had been the plan.)