Dead Loss

[Becks]

I'm pretty sure it takes more than that to offend him

I skipped out of work for a couple of hours after a meeting in north CT today to do this with some clubmates:

http://sprintseries.org/doma/show_map.p ... ks&map=508

Am now stuck in the lab, but it's worth it, because I can confirm that proper orienteering is awesome, and am also very much looking forward to seeing Eddie and Big Jon & co back on home soil next weekend! Yippee!

(Disclaimer: I also think the sprint stuff is really fun too. But all this talk of rules is BOR-RING. Let's go orienteering!)

[harry]

Real orienteering live from Romerike Thursday-Sunday
http://o-nm2011.raumar.net/

Links to the livesenter from the startlist pages:
http://o-nm2011.raumar.net/start-og-resultatlister/

[SeanC]

Whether you think urban O is real orienteering or not, the entry figures for London are worth a discussion.

Pre-entries: 1117
IND's 115

Is this the biggest non multiday event in the UK?
Is this the biggest number of IND's for a non-multiday event?

[Arnold]

Kitch if you want to come down and organise a "proper" event anywhere near SW London in the next 2 months let me know...a colour coded on Hawley and Hornley is about it before the end of October...

[andy]

Please don't offend him - he's just about our only M21!

is he not an M35??

[Tatty]

Thr big 3 events in SCOA - Chiltern Challenge, Concorde Chase and November Classic regularly used to get over 1000, but not for the last few years

[Angry Haggis]

Whether you think urban O is real orienteering or not, the entry figures for London are worth a discussion.

Pre-entries: 1117
IND's 115

Is this the biggest non multiday event in the UK?
Is this the biggest number of IND's for a non-multiday event?

I think it might be the second biggest standalone urban O-race in the world (after Venice obviously) unless anyone knows different?

[awk]

From our (OH and my) point of view, Kitch, the urban programme the past couple of autumns (and this) is generally more attractive. Quite a few events in Scotland look good (and I'm coming up for one), but here in central England, I can't say i'm overwhelmed by what's on offer in terrain - although there are one or two we'll be going to. Come the spring and it looks to be a very different story. Same happened last year - we attended hardly any terrain events during the autumn, but things kicked in in the spring.

We were discussing this the other evening, and reckoned that if it hadn't been for the introduction of urban races, we'd have probably largely given orienteering up at some time in the past few years. Nowadays the programme is far more varied and interesting.

[andypat]

As I type the top 8 topics on the Discussion Forum are

Nope Urban League
Lincoln City Race
Sheffield Urban Race
Venice Street Race
O-publicity (about basketball)
Wearing shorts
Mapping ISSOM (sprint stuff)
City of London race

what a lot of pish
does none of you people do any proper orienteering anymore ?

And now 3 of the top 8 are

Dead Loss
Orienteering publicity - No hope in the UK
BOF hacked

What a positive bunch!

[weekatiepea]

Please don't offend him - he's just about our only M21!

is he not an M35??

Almost!! 3 more months!!

He would like to come on and defend his outfit but he can't remember his nope login, doh! Although he readily admits it maybe wasn't his best choice of attire but he wasn't aware he was modelling for a poster campaign at the time!

[AndyO]

He would like to come on and defend his outfit but he can't remember his nope login, doh!

That'll be right, Katie - he's just plain lazy