I'll add another voice to the exams don't get in the way. Life's about choices - choose better marks or choose racing.
For those who don't know this yet - working for a living is much harder than being at college and gets in the way of racing far more. Again it's choices but working 10+ hours a day and staying fit is hard work.
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Your views are mainly in line with my thoughts last night. I just wondered if this year BEOC was an event too far. Not necessarily in terms of travel. But there seems to have been so many events with selections UK Cup FCC etc . The atmosphere is made by the people attending and helped by the weather. The personal satisfaction comes from the terrain. I also think that although I don't always enjoy them club block starts also add to the atmosphere because you all tend to congregate at the start and then wait at club tents after to cheer in your club mates.
Diets and fitness are no good if you can't read the map.
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FatBoy wrote:For those who don't know this yet - working for a living is much harder than being at college and gets in the way of racing far more. Again it's choices but working 10+ hours a day and staying fit is hard work.
I've been finding that the last few weeks - been working 8.30 till five in the lab and I just want to collapse after that! Anybody any tips for a big prod to get yourself out training after a day like that? (To be put into practise after the tonsilitis I seem to have developed kindly goes away).
Will? We've got proper fire now!
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I don't think Kitch's plan for a BOC using areas of suitable technical toughness would apply to many areas when vegetation was a problem! Not many brambles / bracken in Lossie or Holme fell in May / June. The plan outlined at the top of this thread is a great blueprint for making the British champs a race to aim at, and we should look at ways of making it work - the issues raised so far are minor.
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I think most of you are missing an important point about exams if the British Championships is to be a combined event for all classes, which everyone seems to want. Given the choice between concentrating on exams or spending a weekend away at an event, the top orienteers will still make the effort to come, but many others won't because they have different priorities. I didn't compete as a junior, but I doubt that I would have wanted to disrupt my revision if I wasn't in contention for titles or tour selection.
If everyone's British Championship had been scheduled for last weekend at Lossie, many of the fields would have been depleted, not just those of juniors and students, but those of parents as well (if their children were not top orienteers, or possibly not orienteers at all). The event might have succeeded in finding the best orienteers in each age class, but would not have had the same mass participation as the JK.
If everyone's British Championship had been scheduled for last weekend at Lossie, many of the fields would have been depleted, not just those of juniors and students, but those of parents as well (if their children were not top orienteers, or possibly not orienteers at all). The event might have succeeded in finding the best orienteers in each age class, but would not have had the same mass participation as the JK.
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