Shock! Horror!

[roadrunner]

I can understand runners not being interested in taking leaflets (or indeed talking about orienteering) in the middle of a training session, but it's disappointing not to have got some more interest if you tried handing them out when they finished.

A few members of my running club have shown an interest in trying a local (level D) urban event next month, it will be interesting to see what they make of it. It happens (purely coincidentally, I'm sure) that the event is less than a mile from the local parkrun and timed so that you can do both, maybe that helped.

[PhilJ]

We have managed to get some of the cross country runners along from the athletic club as some of the juniors are also members of the athletic club but they don't make a committed switch, they may turn up to 1 or 2 events but then go back to the fold of the athletic club.

[Mrs H]

If only BOF would adopt that as their 'Mission statement' and put 90% of their effort into it then we could grow the sport from the bottom up. The level D event structure is the MOST IMPORTANT part of what we do. The older and more experienced orienteers can enjoy a weekly run and help to introduce the next 30,000 members into the sport.

I think I demonstrated pretty well that this approach works with MADO - BOF were not interested.