Orienteering (Course Setting) 5:30:00 [1] *** 10.0 km (33:00 / km)
spiked:16/17c slept:5.0 weight:178lbs (injured)
Fountainhead Regional Park, VA. I'm falling apart one body part at a time. It was painful just lying in bed last night. Despite it being very late when I went to be, shooting pain in my right leg was making it hard to get sleep. The sprain in my right leg is perhaps more like a calf tear, being high. That somehow tied together with my ongoing back problems on my right side. Standing was difficult due to strong pain shooting between my hip, and calf/ankle. I went out anyway since I had to set controls. Fortunately, David Onkst had volunteered to help. Together we got out 21 mostly far away controls. As I got moving, it became easier to walk. However, I generally had to stay on slopes where it was higher on the right side. I went out of my way to do that at times. When it was unavoidable, I walked duck style on my right leg to keep from rolling my ankle again. I still stumbled on things under the leaves occasionally and that hurt. I should have taped before going out. After stumbling one too many times, and favoring my hurt right leg, I jerked too hard and pulled something in my right hamstring. That kept hurting throughout the day. The pain was manageable most of the time and sometimes hurts worse at home--it was worth doing to get ahead of my control deployment schedule.
At least the forest was nice and it was sunny. The temperature seemed to get close to 70 F but it may have been cooler. The leaves were mostly gone but there were enough on the trees to make it more difficult to see far, like one can in April. Dave and I bumped into Keg Good who was getting familiar with her block vetting loop. After the nearly all day together, I dropped Dave off at Gallows Rd. so that he could run into DC and then run home - a +20 mile run in the dark on what to him is an unfamiliar paved trail.