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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Bizarre O' Danger
I went for a run tonight, wearing my headlamp as I jogged around in the dark forest.
Early on I spotted a couple of glowing eyes looking at me. It was a fox. First time I've seen a fox at Parkville. A little later I saw several sets of eyes glowing back at me -- deer.
Reminding me of this strange O' injury report from the USOF clubnet...
Bob Ireland suffered an amazing and terrible accident at the Rochester Night O, a ninety minute score O. He had punched 22 out of the 30 controls, with 25 minutes more to go, when a deer smashed into his face. In the moonlight, he had seen two does cossing the path, and then this sudden impact.
Bob spent the whole night in emergency. He has a bruised rib, two slight fractures around the right eye and his clavicle was broken in two places. A face trauma doctor stitched up two deep lacerations on his face.
Someone even suggested steps to avoid this problem in the future.
We need to avoid holding future night-O events during the whitetail deer mating season.
I'm not sure of the risk of deer-orienteer night O' accidents. I suspect the risk of a deer-orienteer accident is much higher on the drive from home to the event than during the race.
posted by Michael |
7:04 PM
