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by Peter B » Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:39 am
Interview will be posted here asap, for an audio copy (pending copyright and ability to get it copied) sign up below including email address:
No promises though with the audio copies
No promises though with the audio copies
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by rosalind » Mon Aug 09, 2004 12:08 pm
Ok, i'm just out...i'm getting sent a copy over the next few days.
My whole publicity didn't work because he controlled the whole thing and i didn't get to promote most of the stuff!
...which also means i failed the challenge
My whole publicity didn't work because he controlled the whole thing and i didn't get to promote most of the stuff!
...which also means i failed the challenge
I want to walk up the side of the mountain, I want to walk down the other side of the mountain. I want to swim in the river, lie in the sun. I want to try being nice to everyone.
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by rosalind » Mon Aug 09, 2004 8:50 pm
Turns out that the link on the internet wasn't even the correct link (?) and the stations link is down at the moment.
I will be forwarding a copy of the interview to several sources as soon as I have it in my possesion.
Pity it wasn't heard nationwide.
I will be forwarding a copy of the interview to several sources as soon as I have it in my possesion.
Pity it wasn't heard nationwide.
I want to walk up the side of the mountain, I want to walk down the other side of the mountain. I want to swim in the river, lie in the sun. I want to try being nice to everyone.
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by Peter B » Fri Aug 13, 2004 4:43 pm
THE INTERVIEW
Presenter: In the studio with me now is Rosalind Hussey, and she’s in chatting about orienteering. It’s probably a sport you maybe don’t know a lot about, maybe you do a bit of walking, you’ve been up the forest, you’ve seen the markers, what’s orienteering all about? How does it differ from other outward bound sports like hill walking, hiking and stuff like that?
Rosalind: Well orienteering’s very challenging because it involves navigating through the forest using a map at high speeds, or walking through, it doesn’t matter.
P: So basically what you’re saying is it’s about navigating using just a compass and a map and grid reference points as apposed to visual sights?
R: Yes, there’s no grid reference points but there is the magnetic north signs and you do use a compass, yes.
P: As a sport, is it suitable for all?
R: It is suitable for everyone, both young and old, women and men, and within the same festivals you can have elite runners, recreational runners, there’s courses for disabled, it’s a sport for all, definitely.
P: Is it an easy sport to learn then?
R: It’s definitely an easy sport to learn.
P: You’ve only been at this a very short time, 2 years but already you’re competing at international level?
R: Yes, competing for Ireland and Northern Ireland.
P: Whereabouts is this sport taking you?
R: It’s taking me pretty much everywhere. I’ve been to Sweden, which is the main country, it originated in Sweden and there’s more Swedish people take part in orienteering than all the other countries combined.
P: Why did it really start in Sweden, is that because it’s got the best country with a lot of forests, mountains and lakes?
R: Definitely, it’s the best terrain, it’s the most challenging with the forests and the mountains.
P: And you’re just back from, what is it called, the O-ringeth?
R: The O-ringen, yes.
P: The O-ringen? That sounds like something from Lord of the Rings actually, doesn’t it? It sounds like something from Middle Earth!
R: It sounds impressive.
P: It does, what does it all involve, the O-ringen?
R: There’s 20,000 competitors this year, it’s a very big event and it involves the Superelite or recreational runners, and there’s special Trail-O events for disabled people in wheelchairs.
P: Take me through this elite squad again because in Ireland most of the elite squad, a lot of them actually live abroad. Why’s that?
R: There’s better terrain and more training facilities in cases such as Britain, England, Scotland or especially Scandinavia, a lot of people try to take a year out there, if they don’t get to live there.
P: Within that elite squad there are certain people called the Superelite, and you sometimes would see them performing at Eurosport and Sky Sports. Why is there such great TV and media interest in them, particularly in other countries as well?
R: They are trying to bring orienteering into the Olympics, so they’re trying to make it more spectator friendly, so with the Superelite they’ve placed cameras strategically through the course and can follow the different times of competitors to see who’s winning at the different controls, and it can be followed on big screens with loudspeakers.
P: ‘Cos most of the time you would be lost in the deep dark forest, if the cameramen went in behind they would just be running around there through trees!
R: The Superelite might know where they’re going all the time, but we don’t.
P: Do you need to have an in-built sense of direction to be an orienteering person?
R: Not at the easier levels. At the easier levels you’ll be following paths, so it’s easy enough to start off with, but once you’re getting into the harder terrain and the more difficult courses it’s definitely a good idea to keep an eye on your compass and know where you’re going generally.
P: How good are local people at orienteering, there’s always been a core of people over the years that have been in it or is it undergoing in a renaissance in Ireland?
R: There are certain people who are very good, they are the top level, they are going to the World Championships this year and there’s one from Fermanagh who would be challenging for that except that he’s injured this year, so they’re definitely very good athletes around here, although the terrain isn’t the greatest or it’s not very popular in Ireland.
P: What sort of equipment do you need to take part?
R: You don’t need anything specific, apart from you’ll get the map when you’re there, and you will need a compass once the courses get more difficult, although apart from that you just need your brain!
P: How does it work? Say you go along to an event, you obviously don’t need a rucksack with you because most of it’s over short distances, and if anything happens, you would get rescued. So you need a good pair of walking boots, yeah?
R: Or trainers, depending if you want to walk or run.
P: You have a map and a compass. Are you allowed a GPS system?
R: No. That would help, but no. You’re not allowed that.
P: You’re not allowed that ‘cos basically it would plot exactly for you where you had to go. It is dependent on time then?
R: You’ll have a start time and you won’t know how everyone’s doing on your course apart from yourself until you get back and then once you’re back you check different times with people on your course so yes, it’s very time based.
P: At certain points along the way you have to clip or check in with the markers do you?
R: It’s got very technical now there’s a special magnetic chip, which you have in your hand in a special SI Card, and it gives the exact time once you’re at each point and the time between the controls, and then at the very end you punch the finish.
P: And that tells you how good you were over certain legs, and how good you were overall, so it’s very sophisticated.
R: Oh definitely.
P: You can tell how long it was since I’ve done orienteering, an awful long time. What does the future hold in Ireland because obviously there’s three big clubs in Northern Ireland, you’re from FERMO, which is Fermanagh Orienteers. How many members would there be in your organisation?
R: We have people from Donegal and Cavan and Fermanagh and Tyrone, so it takes on quite a big area although it’s called Fermanagh Orienteers. There’s probably about 50 current members.
P: So that’s quite a lot of people then that are interested in it. What do you see it growing from here, are you getting the funding you need from government and sporting bodies to take part because, like all sports, it takes money to take part?
R: Yes. We’re currently getting funding for travelling over to England, and this is us personally, and the club FERMO have currently got grants for travelling as well so we are getting quite a lot of funding from the government at the moment, it’s very helpful.
P: It’s one of those things that people maybe have been out in the forest park on an afternoon, they’ve maybe seen it on TV, they’ve maybe been in an outward bound shop and they’ve seen orienteering stuff for sale, if people are interested in getting involved probably the best way is to go look up the website?
R: Yes.
P: Which is http://www.niorienteering.org.uk, it’s very easy to remember that, isn’t it? niorienteering.org.uk. What about yourself, how are you fearing yourself because you’re still fairly young, do you race and compete as an adult now?
R: I’ve competed in the Junior Squad since last year for Ireland but this year in April I got selected for the Senior Squad, so I have competed as a Senior just the once. Juniors compete up until they’re 20.
P: Are you going to be able to make your career out of this come 2005?
R: I hope to take a gap year and travel over in Scandinavia for a year and definitely improve.
P: Because there are a lot of other international events the WOC is organised by the IOF every year, what does that involve?
R: That’s for the main elite members, those between 21 and 35, that’s the core age group, so people from every country go to selection races just before the WOC to see if they are good enough to compete for their country, and the selection races were actually on this weekend, so we’re still to hear who’s competing for Ireland.
P: So at the other end of the scale it’s not just the Superelite, super fit people can do it, you can have families take part in this as well. It’s quite popular in certain countries as a recreational sport for the whole family.
R: Within Ireland, definitely, it’s more common among families because the whole family can easily take part. The way we do this is by using colour events, this uses courses varying in difficulty so you can choose whichever course you want to do and then there’s no discrimination between that, men and women are competing against each other, young and old, you decide which one you want to run so the whole family can take part and no-one’s left out.
P: OK, Rosalind Hussey, thanks for coming in this morning, orienteering is a competitive form of land navigation, it’s for all ages and degrees of fitness and skill, it provides the suspense and excitement of a treasure hunt, the object of orienteering is to locate control points by using a map and compass to navigate through the woods. The courses can be as long as 10 kilometres, if you’re interested in finding out more you can check out http://www.niorienteering.org.uk. Rosalind, thankyou.
R: Thanks.
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Nice one Roz
Presenter: In the studio with me now is Rosalind Hussey, and she’s in chatting about orienteering. It’s probably a sport you maybe don’t know a lot about, maybe you do a bit of walking, you’ve been up the forest, you’ve seen the markers, what’s orienteering all about? How does it differ from other outward bound sports like hill walking, hiking and stuff like that?
Rosalind: Well orienteering’s very challenging because it involves navigating through the forest using a map at high speeds, or walking through, it doesn’t matter.
P: So basically what you’re saying is it’s about navigating using just a compass and a map and grid reference points as apposed to visual sights?
R: Yes, there’s no grid reference points but there is the magnetic north signs and you do use a compass, yes.
P: As a sport, is it suitable for all?
R: It is suitable for everyone, both young and old, women and men, and within the same festivals you can have elite runners, recreational runners, there’s courses for disabled, it’s a sport for all, definitely.
P: Is it an easy sport to learn then?
R: It’s definitely an easy sport to learn.
P: You’ve only been at this a very short time, 2 years but already you’re competing at international level?
R: Yes, competing for Ireland and Northern Ireland.
P: Whereabouts is this sport taking you?
R: It’s taking me pretty much everywhere. I’ve been to Sweden, which is the main country, it originated in Sweden and there’s more Swedish people take part in orienteering than all the other countries combined.
P: Why did it really start in Sweden, is that because it’s got the best country with a lot of forests, mountains and lakes?
R: Definitely, it’s the best terrain, it’s the most challenging with the forests and the mountains.
P: And you’re just back from, what is it called, the O-ringeth?
R: The O-ringen, yes.
P: The O-ringen? That sounds like something from Lord of the Rings actually, doesn’t it? It sounds like something from Middle Earth!
R: It sounds impressive.
P: It does, what does it all involve, the O-ringen?
R: There’s 20,000 competitors this year, it’s a very big event and it involves the Superelite or recreational runners, and there’s special Trail-O events for disabled people in wheelchairs.
P: Take me through this elite squad again because in Ireland most of the elite squad, a lot of them actually live abroad. Why’s that?
R: There’s better terrain and more training facilities in cases such as Britain, England, Scotland or especially Scandinavia, a lot of people try to take a year out there, if they don’t get to live there.
P: Within that elite squad there are certain people called the Superelite, and you sometimes would see them performing at Eurosport and Sky Sports. Why is there such great TV and media interest in them, particularly in other countries as well?
R: They are trying to bring orienteering into the Olympics, so they’re trying to make it more spectator friendly, so with the Superelite they’ve placed cameras strategically through the course and can follow the different times of competitors to see who’s winning at the different controls, and it can be followed on big screens with loudspeakers.
P: ‘Cos most of the time you would be lost in the deep dark forest, if the cameramen went in behind they would just be running around there through trees!
R: The Superelite might know where they’re going all the time, but we don’t.
P: Do you need to have an in-built sense of direction to be an orienteering person?
R: Not at the easier levels. At the easier levels you’ll be following paths, so it’s easy enough to start off with, but once you’re getting into the harder terrain and the more difficult courses it’s definitely a good idea to keep an eye on your compass and know where you’re going generally.
P: How good are local people at orienteering, there’s always been a core of people over the years that have been in it or is it undergoing in a renaissance in Ireland?
R: There are certain people who are very good, they are the top level, they are going to the World Championships this year and there’s one from Fermanagh who would be challenging for that except that he’s injured this year, so they’re definitely very good athletes around here, although the terrain isn’t the greatest or it’s not very popular in Ireland.
P: What sort of equipment do you need to take part?
R: You don’t need anything specific, apart from you’ll get the map when you’re there, and you will need a compass once the courses get more difficult, although apart from that you just need your brain!
P: How does it work? Say you go along to an event, you obviously don’t need a rucksack with you because most of it’s over short distances, and if anything happens, you would get rescued. So you need a good pair of walking boots, yeah?
R: Or trainers, depending if you want to walk or run.
P: You have a map and a compass. Are you allowed a GPS system?
R: No. That would help, but no. You’re not allowed that.
P: You’re not allowed that ‘cos basically it would plot exactly for you where you had to go. It is dependent on time then?
R: You’ll have a start time and you won’t know how everyone’s doing on your course apart from yourself until you get back and then once you’re back you check different times with people on your course so yes, it’s very time based.
P: At certain points along the way you have to clip or check in with the markers do you?
R: It’s got very technical now there’s a special magnetic chip, which you have in your hand in a special SI Card, and it gives the exact time once you’re at each point and the time between the controls, and then at the very end you punch the finish.
P: And that tells you how good you were over certain legs, and how good you were overall, so it’s very sophisticated.
R: Oh definitely.
P: You can tell how long it was since I’ve done orienteering, an awful long time. What does the future hold in Ireland because obviously there’s three big clubs in Northern Ireland, you’re from FERMO, which is Fermanagh Orienteers. How many members would there be in your organisation?
R: We have people from Donegal and Cavan and Fermanagh and Tyrone, so it takes on quite a big area although it’s called Fermanagh Orienteers. There’s probably about 50 current members.
P: So that’s quite a lot of people then that are interested in it. What do you see it growing from here, are you getting the funding you need from government and sporting bodies to take part because, like all sports, it takes money to take part?
R: Yes. We’re currently getting funding for travelling over to England, and this is us personally, and the club FERMO have currently got grants for travelling as well so we are getting quite a lot of funding from the government at the moment, it’s very helpful.
P: It’s one of those things that people maybe have been out in the forest park on an afternoon, they’ve maybe seen it on TV, they’ve maybe been in an outward bound shop and they’ve seen orienteering stuff for sale, if people are interested in getting involved probably the best way is to go look up the website?
R: Yes.
P: Which is http://www.niorienteering.org.uk, it’s very easy to remember that, isn’t it? niorienteering.org.uk. What about yourself, how are you fearing yourself because you’re still fairly young, do you race and compete as an adult now?
R: I’ve competed in the Junior Squad since last year for Ireland but this year in April I got selected for the Senior Squad, so I have competed as a Senior just the once. Juniors compete up until they’re 20.
P: Are you going to be able to make your career out of this come 2005?
R: I hope to take a gap year and travel over in Scandinavia for a year and definitely improve.
P: Because there are a lot of other international events the WOC is organised by the IOF every year, what does that involve?
R: That’s for the main elite members, those between 21 and 35, that’s the core age group, so people from every country go to selection races just before the WOC to see if they are good enough to compete for their country, and the selection races were actually on this weekend, so we’re still to hear who’s competing for Ireland.
P: So at the other end of the scale it’s not just the Superelite, super fit people can do it, you can have families take part in this as well. It’s quite popular in certain countries as a recreational sport for the whole family.
R: Within Ireland, definitely, it’s more common among families because the whole family can easily take part. The way we do this is by using colour events, this uses courses varying in difficulty so you can choose whichever course you want to do and then there’s no discrimination between that, men and women are competing against each other, young and old, you decide which one you want to run so the whole family can take part and no-one’s left out.
P: OK, Rosalind Hussey, thanks for coming in this morning, orienteering is a competitive form of land navigation, it’s for all ages and degrees of fitness and skill, it provides the suspense and excitement of a treasure hunt, the object of orienteering is to locate control points by using a map and compass to navigate through the woods. The courses can be as long as 10 kilometres, if you’re interested in finding out more you can check out http://www.niorienteering.org.uk. Rosalind, thankyou.
R: Thanks.
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Nice one Roz
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