Orienteering (Competition) 1:02:08 [3] 7.95 km (7:49 / km)
spiked:34/39c (injured)
QOC and the Terrapin Trail Club conspired to put on the College Park-O (score-O) at the University of Maryland. The nice 60F day and the new (1:6,000) map brought out a bunch of people. A brain-child of Benitis Vitenis and aided by John Torrance and Greg Lennon, the event turned-out to be lot's of fun. This was the first running I had done in a while. My achilles felt good the first 15 minutes and started tightening-up the next. After running a couple controls with John Torrance and a few others, I turned-off on my route, slowed and tightened-up a lot at about 29 minutes into the race. I should have stopped there but it was a competition and a fun one. The last half hour I hobbled about getting worse each step. Trying to compensate for my achilles on my right foot, my left started hurting some too. Oddly my left lower calf/upper achilles had felt a little funny before starting making me think the injury I'm going through is a kind of age-related settling of the type I went through in my late 30's with my knees. My knees are fairly fine now. There were 48 controls. I got 39 and was 2:08 over which incurred a 3 control penalty. I made minimal errors. If I hadn't pulled-up lame, I think I could have gotten them all in the hour. My average distance between controls was about 204m and the average time per control was 1:35. My order was: 11, 10, 12, 13, 37, 35, 34, 36, 38, 41, 40, 39, 48, 16, 47, 46, 45, 42, 43, 44, 15, 14, 33, 32, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 17, 19, 20, 18, 7.