Orienteering race 2:00:09 [0] *** 7.0 km (17:10 / km) +90m 16:08 / km
spiked:6/10c slept:6.5 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Green course at Townsend State Forest, NEOC local meet. SL 5.1 km Gorgeous sunny day, with temps in the upper 50s to low 60s, topping out at 70F.
Well, for the controls I did well, I enjoyed the course. I was off to one side or another onto controls, one I'm not sure is mapped correctly (hunters stand seemed to be in much more green than mapped, but we'll see), and one was thrown out because it was hung wrong. I even tried to "think like the setter" --trying to figure out how he approached-- and looked around the area at other boulders, but I guess didn't widen my circle quite enough. ;-) That was probably my longest search; I was helped at 4 and 6 seeing Phil B going to them, and at 5 I hit another control a couple reentrants west (parallel error; miscounted reentrants/streams) of where I was supposed to be, and corrected from where I thought it might be. (Turns out it was #5 on the Red course, which then did a loop N before rejoining the Green course at my 5.) #7 was the missing control which I eventually bailed out of. Fine on the others.
Fell hard on my right knee (again?! but a different spot this time) before number 5, and took my time getting up, then fell again later but it was a more gentle fall. That's what I get for trying to run in junky woods with no knee-lifting training; I caught the right shoe on a root both times.
No matter; it's always good to spend time in the woods.
Track later. Added FR track, which is missing some of the leg from 4-5; I think it might have stopped when I fell... But it beeps to warn me of going into power save mode, when I restart it. Anyway, about 5 minutes was missing so that must be the leeway time the watch gives before power saving. Adjusted time (to match download) and distance.
Walking warm up/down 10:00 [1]
shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-A 2013-08
Back and forth between parking and start because there was no 'clear' box at the start and we hadn't cleared SI sticks at registration....