SJC wrote:The way forward for orienteering is more smaller local events so newcomers who ask "when is the next event" can be told "next week" rather than "5 weeks away". Newcomers who have made the effort to come to a new sport want to have the experience re-inforced.
Although small and local isn't the way the mud races have grown. They are big events with lots of publicity and lots of the things happening when you get there - food, drink, official photographers, etc. They are delivered as a total experience, and the next one locally may not be for many months.
I completely agree, but orienteering and mud-races are not the same...