O-Ringen

[Stodgetta]

I threw up half way around day one, and carried on throwing up every day (particularly the mornings) for eight weeks! Fantastic timing
Not something I care to repeat in a hurry (it was the garlic pizza I had on the Sunday night, honest....)
Shame I also had to finish last out of several hundred competitors, too, but at least I finished!

[Supersaint]

but it must be said that most people love it so much that they go back for years afterwards. One thing that's different is the legth of run-ins as well. I can remember back in the early 90's when i was a wee sprog, and i was having 700m run-ins on a 2.5km course. They're not so long these days, but theyare very hotly contended, particularly by the non-Swede's as it's one part of the course where we can definitely beat them hands down. And if you're on the campsite, hire a bike as early as possible, they're extremely useful, and hitching rides on the front or back of them is not the most comfortable.

[Mrs H.]

I threw up half way around day one, and carried on throwing up every day (particularly the mornings) for eight weeks!

Ha ha ha - i only had to look at you that first day and i knew why - It started with a kiss! eh? If it's any consolation it gets easier

[awk]

Well Helen dear, It's about the toilets - you just have to remember it's the same for everyone I understand in the old days they were not only communal but mixed but perhaps that's just people trying to shock me.

At my only previous O-ringen (back in the late 70s, the toilets were basically planks across a skip. You didn't want to lose your balance. I'm looking forward to something a wee bit more sophisticated this time!

[gg]

my first lasted three and a half days and ended on crutches....

[Mrs H.]

Mine was wet and thunderous

[Braddie]

Mine involved fire.

And 7000 other people

[Guest]

My first was wet wet wet in 2000. Hoping for sunshine all the way this time as am camping.

I managed to steadily improve my place every day although it's all relative as I still ended up in the bottom quarter!

No doubt will see some other bleary eyed orienteers at Stansted on Friday at 7am!

[Kitch]

I had to cremate my underpants

[the duncan]

were you wearing them at the time? and who lit it?!?

[Stodgetta]

Helen, are you still going?
By the sounds of it you risk coming back burned, drowned, pregnant, knickerless and on crutches!
Noone has mentioned midges yet, either.
Let us know how your first one goes!

[SJ]

it'll be my first time too - sounds scary

is it too late to back out

(actually as anyone who has spoken to me recently will know - I am dead excited bout it - let's hope I come back with all my limbs and clothes)

[brooner]

No doubt will see some other bleary eyed orienteers at Stansted on Friday at 7am!

never mind that, the troop of bleary eyed orienteers leaving the campsite at 5am on saturday morning at the end of last years o-ringen was an interesting sight!!! euch... that was one long journey home - o-ringen to 6 days in about 18hours or so.

[pyrat]

watch you dont get too cold as well !
i did

[FatBoy]

No doubt will see some other bleary eyed orienteers at Stansted on Friday at 7am!

Aye for real. Leaving Cardiff 1am