So - you think that you are slow!!!--

[Bazza1234]

got my result for the 4K Orienteering course which I did yesterday ----

WAIT FOR IT!!!

1 hr 11 mins 6 secs --- and I WAS running!!!!!

[Noaky12 Graduate]

But if you were orienteering were you not stopping to study compass, map, GPS signal on a frequent basis?? As well having to REALLY pay attention to where you were (do you still get to collect stamps on a card with the wee orange clicker or is it all electronic now??).

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[GoogleMe Graduate in reply to Noaky12]

Electronic. But definitely no GPSing!

[Bazza1234 Graduate in reply to Noaky12]

Yes -- ALL those things ( except GPS )) -- but the first person came home doing all those things in 22 minutes!!

[harveyemm Graduate]

Thank you for the encouraging post. It cheered me up no end as I am as slow as can be.

[agedsnailspace Graduate]

But you made it home! I'm afraid with my map reading skills, I might still be out there! :).

[TurboTortoise Graduate]

That's brilliantly slow! You have beaten me! On my night orienteering adventure a few months ago I managed a spectacular 8k in 90 minutes (running, though mostly round in circles it seems). It was such fun though.

[Bazza1234 Graduate in reply to TurboTortoise]

I can't really see how these people completed the 4K course in 22 minutes .. you have to run almost 5K to get to the 26 checkpoints as the 4K is "as the bird flies" - so for a 20 minute 5K runner , there is 20 minutes , then you have to do all the navigating on the run and then physically find all 26 points and physically mark your card with the little thingie

At a slow pace, I would do the 5k in 40 minutes -- location of 26 checkpoints and clicking the thingie would take at least 1 minute each - so I am up to 66 minutes -- so that would mean I only spent 5 minutes navigating!!

On our last orienteering adventure where wife and I both got hopelessly lost, we both happened to be at a common checkpoint which we could not find - it was somewhere deep inside some thick bush - a young lithe female somebody came bounding up , ran into the bush and straight to this well hidden checkpoint !!! I said "I think she has done this before!!!"

[TurboTortoise Graduate in reply to Bazza1234]

Yes, I don't know how the serious orienteers do it either. The winner of the one I did recently completed it in 26 mins - supposedly a 5k course (but only 5k as the crow flies, which would take you through ponds, impenetrable woods and bramble patches etc), in the pitch dark, over lumpy cross-country terrain, with 17 well-hidden checkpoints to find!

[Tomas Graduate]

Ah but you did it! Well done Bazza

[Pigivi]

Did you get lost ? And as Tomas said, you did it, and had fun!

[Bazza1234 Graduate in reply to Pigivi]

No - you couldn't get lost in this particular park -- but that doesn't mean to say that the checkpoints were easy to find!!