Urban O

[Kitch]

I once did an urban race.

[andypat]

I once did an urban race.

On your bike Kitch

[andypat]

I once did an urban race.

On your bike Kitch

Sorry I unaccountably omitted the question mark from that innocent query

On your bike Kitch?

[AndyO]

We know what you meant, andypat

[graeme]

I once did an urban race.

1 Fraser Scott INT M Open 35:46
...
42 Connor Brad FVO M Open 50:31
43 Smyth Patrick NATO M40+ 50:34
44 Carlyle Becky EUOC W Open 50:39
45 Kitchin Andrew INT M40+ 50:49
...

[andypat]

Mind you Brad's gone a bit downhill since then...

[Arnold]

I think it's more a question of supply initially (then demand follows).

In south east england there are not a lot of great areas, and if you've lived here for a while you will have orienteered on most of them dozens of times (Frith Hill anyone?). And there is practically no new decent terrain left to be mapped.

However there are lots of quite fiddly towns and cities that have never been mapped - thus providing exciting and fresh challenges for orienteers (how many of the city races will still be around in 10 years' time remains to be seen of course - even in London there are only relatively few great legs so it gets harder with time to plan decent courses).

In Scotland and Grossland (an area of vague description that appears to be centered on the Gulf of Finland) there is lots of fantastic mapped terrain and lots more waiting to be mapped. And not a lot of fiddly towns and cities. So everyone sticks to forest O.

As for the events that have a bit of both, everyone's free to choose..

[andypat]

I dont totally buy the "getting bored with the same urban area" philosophy. There's pletnty of scope for mixing up with sprint and urban type racing. With clever planning, the same leg with the 2 controls moved 10m either way can be a totally different leg. Of course there's some iconic areas, like London, Edinburgh, Venice and Erskine that you can just keep going back to year after year and never tire of.

[graeme]

I saw that in one of those IQ test thingies..

What comes next in this sequence?

London
Edinburgh
Venice
?

[EddieH]

Lossiemouth obviously

[Mrs H]

Was it Great Malvern?

[Angry Haggis]

I saw that in one of those IQ test thingies..

What comes next in this sequence?

London
Edinburgh
Venice
?

Peckham?

http://oobrien.com/oom/uk.php?zoom=16&lat=51.47384&lon=-0.06564&layers=B00FFTFFFF

[deebee]

Mornington Crescent?

[NeilC]

http://oobrien.com/oom/global.php?zoom=13&lat=31.78102&lon=35.20784&layers=0B0FFFFFFF ? Though I'd probably put this ahead of Venice.

[graeme]

Mornington Crescent?

5 4 3 2 ?

"Bus stand five for three to ...". I really heard that in London, though the destination of the 3 is "Crystal Palace". And in tfl autopatois it doesn't even sound odd.