Who have you met out training?

[Asian]

Na I've got the most random meeting ever, once, when I was young, I met Joykok of all people in MY house, neither of had been orienteering and just happened upon each other, it was the most random thing ever, there I was in my room when I here my mum calling me for diner, so I head down stairs and who do I meat on the 1st floor landing? Only the one and only Joykok. I've never really got over that day, was so bizzare

[Mrs H.]

Crikey - I thought you were going to say someone like Osama Bin Laden or Kate Adey

[Asian]

Well I've met Tony Blair, Prince Charles, Paul Bremer, John Simpson, Kate Adey, Jeff Bafoon, Jack Straw, The crowned prince of Kuwait, Duke of Westminster, a whole load of othe random MP's who impressed me not (one of whom was sick in the back of my 4x4 as we drove past a couple of dead camals that had been decomposing for several months) and a few other punters along the way, but still, meeting Joykok was by far the most random encounter.

[mharky]

thats good, but its not exactly charlie dimmock...

i once (last wednesday) got home went into my kitchen to find some czech girl who i had never seen before in my life... quite strange

[brooner]

bumping into random orienteers in my flat is quite a common occurence, h & pinches always seem to be here, almost as much as me!

and sometimes they are here when i'm training - on CF of course...

[Asian]

Actually, walking into the guys toilets at Chevvy's bar in Aviemore one late afternoon and finding Chemmy Alcott, Britains top ranked Giant Slalom and Downhill skier and FHM model is stradling a urinal and holding onto the cistern with one hand and holding up her denim skirt in the other attempting to relieve her self into a urinal, upon questioning it turns out that "I've never pee'd in a urinal before so I thought I'd give it a go", classic, RIP Chevvy's!!!!!!

[Jene]

eww?

[Becks]

I gave Jonny Lee Miller (and didn't even notice him till some dolly bird behind me went "That's Jonny Lee Miller" and some old chap from Emmerdale (is Eric Pollard a character?) a medal at the London Marathon yesterday!

[Asian]

No way, legendary, I just watched Trainspotting last night aswell what a classic!

[BJesus]

my weirdest encounter was leaving a mcdonalds in riga, latvia at about 6am in the morning in july 2001, i had spend have the night there as couldnt find a hostel, and had finally decided to leave becuase there was about 10 thieving little latvian 10 yrs old eyeing up my bags. anyway as i walked down the stairs, up walks bogle and bruce, they were in the country checking out the nudest beaches of some crap like that. and turned out that allan had been mugged by the same theiving latvian 10yrs, or at least their older brothers the previous night.

[Kitch]

Eye-raq sounds like a complete celeb-fest,
no wonder they can't get the insurgents under control,
you guys must spend most of your time entertaining the dignitaries.

First Catherine Psycho-Jones blocked the street so I couldn't get home from circuits, then Sean Connery tried to run me over, well his chaufuer did, but I could see Sean shouting to the guy "get that wee [nope] in the shorts"

probably

[J.Tullster]

I was on a school trip to France a couple of years ago. I was walking along with some mates in EuroDisney, when I did a cartoon style double take as none other than Ally Brunton walks past. It was pretty strange to say the least.

[bendover]

i once walked into a bar in shanghai and found myself sharing a couple of shandies with Coolio, random rapper of pube hair fame.

neither of us had been orienteering.

[Rach]

i (literally) ran into Rory McGrath once, he was walking roung a corner in Cambridge and i was going the other way!

[distracted]

shouldn't this thread be renamed "which random celebrities have you randomly met?" as only Joykok's seems to be whilst training...

and you know Asian, I think yours is definitely the most random. if I didn't know better, I would have said you and Joykok could be related in some way