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can we get back on the thread and off school's orienteering, this has been discussed under many other topic headings - has anybody heard anything official from BOF yet on Saturday's meeting? - if you want to discuss schools orienteering please start another thread, my BIG gripe with Nope - start with one topic and halfway thru somebody starts going off on another subject/tangent and the initial topic of discussion if lost, hence RJ starting another topic on membership proposal as Mr H's was getting bogged down in Insurance ??? let's stick to the topic of the posting (freaky has stepped down from his soap box and left the room).
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freaky_phil - orange
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why are there no elite courses in Scottish O League anymore?
Go orienteering in Lithuania......... best in the world:)
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Real Name - Gross
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Gross - god
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No news is good news?
Freaky Phil wrote:-
Has anybody heard anything official from BOF yet on Saturday's meeting?
La, sir, you jest!
However, if we hear nothing at Great Baaaa on Saturday, I think we'll be entitled to believe that Dick Towler's alternative proposal is now the only game in town.
(Ranald, art thou sleeping there below?)
Has anybody heard anything official from BOF yet on Saturday's meeting?
La, sir, you jest!
However, if we hear nothing at Great Baaaa on Saturday, I think we'll be entitled to believe that Dick Towler's alternative proposal is now the only game in town.
(Ranald, art thou sleeping there below?)
Orienteering is Fun!
So let's have more Fun for more Feet in more Forests!
So let's have more Fun for more Feet in more Forests!
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John Morris - orange
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Gross wrote:why are there no elite courses in Scottish O League anymore?
Lack of demand. In the later years they became shortened "E-lite" which were identical A to anyway.
Better question - why are there no elite courses anymore (i.e. courses with a winning time of 90 minutes for top elites).
Quiz Q: when was the last elite course won by a squad athlete who ran for in minutes.
Graeme
WOC2024 Edinburgh
Test races at SprintScotland (Alloa/Falkirk) and Euromeeting (near Stirling).
Test races at SprintScotland (Alloa/Falkirk) and Euromeeting (near Stirling).
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graeme - god
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Graeme wrote:Better question - why are there no elite courses anymore (i.e. courses with a winning time of 90 minutes for top elites).
Quiz Q: when was the last elite course won by a squad athlete who ran for in minutes.
The guidelines for M21E now say 85-95 minutes EWT, so strictly speaking most of the M21Es last year were to guidelines (JK04 82 mins being the exception, and that was voted by the squad as the best planned elite course of the year, so obviously being outside the guidelines subjectively counts for little). An even better question would therefore be to ask why the guidelines are for courses to be too short (compared to international courses guidelines 90-100 mins).
This year so far they've all been almost 5 minutes too short - are runners getting better or planners getting worse?
quick answer to the quiz Q, last UK Cup race over 90 minutes was probably the British Blodslitet in 2002... which was won by JD in about 100 minutes (from memory). But then, that was meant to be an ultra-long and not 'normal' M21E! (just as comparison, the German ultra-long champs a few weeks ago was marginally on the short side, 26km with 55 controls won in just under 2:30)
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