orienteering race 57:31 [3] 4.2 km (13:42 / km)
Brown course at the Mid-Atlantics. I went down last night and stayed with Valerie and helped with some event prep and had a nice dinner and chat. I went out early intending to rest and run a leg on a relay. I goofed on #4 and started following the line to 5 instead of 4 (the course crossed itself with 6 back close to 3) so lost some time there. But the bigger problem was on my way to 6 I turned the corner at a trail junction, stepped in a hole of some sort and rolled my ankle. Not the worst sprain I've had but a pretty good one. Took a minute or two of rolling on the ground before I was ready to stand on it and another minute or two before I was willing to try and jog. Luckily I was almost done with the course and headed back to the finish so a no brainer to finish. But I decided sticking around and trying to hobble around the short easy leg on the relay was not the smartest idea so headed home.
It's somewhat swollen now and will be tender for a few days. I'm pretty bummed since I had started to think my knee was feeling good enough to start trying to run a bit during the week so I could run more while orienteering. Oh well. So it goes.
