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I'm reporting my first orienteering run, Sunday with the BAOC. You get a map and a start time and off you go. I got lost in the middle, but was able to rescue myself from the woods and I am safe now. These guys run where there are no mile marks and sometimes no trails at all ! and they wear those funny colored costumes, think of Robin Hood in red/yellow/orange colors. They have a techi device to determine their splits - an electronic key that you punch into a little box at each control point and it records the point + time. Cool ! What a funny group of people. I'm happy that for most of the time they are lost in the woods. They say on their web site that it is often called the "thinking sport". I was very encouraged to find that I can use my well trained legs to somewhat cover for the lack of any brain :-) it was a lot of fun !! and the course length is a warm-up distance for us - if we only knew how to convert 3.5 Km to Miles (aerial distance). Highly recommended !!!

posted by Arnon @ 7:48 PM