Yeah I've been doing the normal 15km run type orienteering for a while now and it is a bit easy

NOT

DUDE said...

Mark _australia said...

Yeah I've been doing the normal 15km run type orienteering for a while now and it is a bit easy

NOT

That finger in your nose and eye would make it a hard sport for you to do Mark..

Not as hard as the A-grade world knitting championships and I excelled there.
We were actually thinking of throwing in a bit of compass work also

GPS & geocacheing has put cunning running back with the Biathlon. I fondly remember doing it back in the 70's in Lane Cove River park - Having found an obscure mark, one of our team would sit on it - When the othe plonkers showed up looking for it, we would say "we can't find it either...."

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DUDE said...
Does running from the cops on a Friday night after a night on the piss at the pub,
count as Orienteering???

Thats called disorienteering

pepe47 said...

I recall representing the Army in inter-service orienteering, seems that both the Air farce and Navy could read maps better than the Army, Doh!

Have done SAR/mapping & Nav training with SES, great fun albeit for a serious reason. Air force had a team join in...Army do their own I guess.

There's a bunch called the hash house harriers who did exactly what you're describing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_House_Harriers
www.hhh.asn.au/

The Constitution of the Hash House Harriers is recorded on a club registration card dated 1950:
* To promote physical fitness among our members
* To get rid of weekend hangovers
* To acquire a good thirst and to satisfy it in beer
* To persuade the older members that they are not as old as they feel

Members often describe their group as "a drinking club with a running problem,"

FlySurfer said...

Rudebeef said...

Any do it? To be honest I've always thought it was for the oldies but I reckon you could get some wicked events going. Mountain biking, paddle, climb etc

Would be very interested to see a more physical version of it if its around? (No not tackling people mid race )

My Mum was in the World championships... she used to go all over the world...until her knees started playing up, and then illness.

She was always really good at reading maps.

Did she turn them upside down to read them, seems to work for my wife