Orienteering!

So, today it was an orienteering event in the woods south of Roskilde, Denmark. I made plans with a friend to meet outside of his apartment at 7 a.m., so I set my alarm clock in my Iphone to 6.30. It was the plans. 7.27 a.m., I woke up and immediately, I just thought- DAMN IT! I didn't wake up from the alarm clock. I quickly grabbed my Iphone out off my pillow and I saw a SMS from my friend. I quickly wrote back and told him I overslept and that I'm trying to get out as fast as I can to catch the 7.42 train. We originally planned to catch 7.22 a.m. I thought he already had left. Actually, he did not. He was down there waiting and he was on his way to get off when I sent the SMS. I ran to the toilet, changed into my running clothes and grabbed a banana, an orange and a water bottle and hurried downstairs when I got the SMS from my friend. He was still there! Thank god! I jumped on his bike and we hurried towards the train station. We caught the train right in time. Thank God! I felt so bad for oversleeping. He had to reassure me it was okay, that it happens to everyone. However, he made a joke of it all the day but I didn't mind. I felt so embarrassed about it.

Anyways, we got to the orienteering event right in time. I went orienteering for 2 1/2 hours, which is pretty long for a 5,5k course. However, it was not an easy course. It was actually very difficult finding the positions shown in the map. It took me 36 minutes to find the first position, by the way. However, after finding the first position, it went smoother and easier the rest of the course. IT was lots of fun and I didn't feel like it took me 2 1/2 hours. I didn't think of time, I just focused at the map and figured out the best way to get myself to the position. I'm just proud of myself for finding all positions and making it to goal. I'm definitely going to do a lot of more orienteering events from now on. I want to learn more so that hopefully I'll be able to do a 5,5k course in less than 1 hour in the future.

Orienteering is so much different than running. I actually prefer running, but I think orienteering is a great compliment to running as I actually do a lot of running in orienteering but I also have to use my navigating mind- which is challenging in its own way. Running a marathon is physically and mentally challenging, but running an orienteering event takes a lot of patience and thinking to navigate to the right positions.

So, today was a great day with other words- except from the oversleeping part maybe but it was a great story to tell the others later anyways. :) Had a lot of good laughs today. Felt physically tired, as I didn't eat much because I missed my breakfast. When I got home at 6 p.m., I just grabbed the dinner my mother left for me and ate as much as I could. I don't think I've eaten so much, so quickly, in a long time. No wonder when I was so hungry!


Keep on running, folks!