another story
The night before the 2001 Australian Schools Championships, me and a couple of other team members decided to play 'gladiators' on the side of a steep hill in the dark;
-the result was two of us in hospital.
here is a picture of me in hospital
classic 'o' mistakes
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is this Ian Lockington of Limavady N. Ireland?
Indeed it was. Found out more about that, he was wearing a lovely pink o suit at the time and was told that if he got lost to run north the railway and turn left-he turned right, got to a 12ft fence, climbed it into an industrial estate then got chased out of it before getting to a road and getting on to this bus
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Wattok - [nope] cartel
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Was running behing Matt Crane at a national event, tripped over a boulder next to a control on a crag. As I fell over I put my hand out to stop my fall and dislocated my middle finger on my right hand.
I looked up and Craney had gone.
I looked up and Craney had gone.
Now, I know you're a feminist, and I think that's adorable, but this is grown-up time and I'm the man.
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Braddie - light green
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its not quite a classic o-mistake, infact its almost the opposite, but bradies story about him following craney made me think of this.
It was a few years ago, Natoinal event at broughton or braughton burrows (the onw which has a contour interval change at the bottom for the big ass hill), anyway. I picked up may map, went to 1 fine, then as it was sanddunes i obvioulsy had some problems with a few of the controls, got to number 5 and furness had caught me up, about 4 minutes or so. Then he starts running off at some angle, and i say "where are you going, its this way!", then he looks at my map, laughs and tells me i'v picked up the wrong one... jobby! so the map goes down the o-trousers and i follow furness for the rest of the course... 4th place thankyou very much, without the map!
1st control was the same, other were vagueley close, so i just ran around till i found the control with same code as my control card, just like i normally do...
It was a few years ago, Natoinal event at broughton or braughton burrows (the onw which has a contour interval change at the bottom for the big ass hill), anyway. I picked up may map, went to 1 fine, then as it was sanddunes i obvioulsy had some problems with a few of the controls, got to number 5 and furness had caught me up, about 4 minutes or so. Then he starts running off at some angle, and i say "where are you going, its this way!", then he looks at my map, laughs and tells me i'v picked up the wrong one... jobby! so the map goes down the o-trousers and i follow furness for the rest of the course... 4th place thankyou very much, without the map!
1st control was the same, other were vagueley close, so i just ran around till i found the control with same code as my control card, just like i normally do...
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At a national event, in the south, the sixth control and the nineth control where near each other. I had my map orientated, like any good boy, and I was running south to 5. I made a slightly unorthodox route choice of going 1-2-3-4-5-9.......
Crap
Crap
Now, I know you're a feminist, and I think that's adorable, but this is grown-up time and I'm the man.
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oh, i've remeberd another classic, white rose, maybe 1998. Me and GG are the only people on the course. on the first day he decides to do 3 sides of a square to the last control and looses a few minutes´. second day i fold my map a bit too small, so on the long leg i didnt realise that just over the side was a big track going all the way, instead i hack my way through god knows how much yorkshire jobbie and take twice as long for the leg... never made that istake again.
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Ian getting lost
fantastic how these stories change - the pink O suit was a purchase at O Ringen 2 months later!
But more importantly everyone forgets about us poor folk who had to go out in the thunderstorm to try to find him while he was inside, warm and being fed! not just legendary but complete genius from him!
Next time you get that wet and cold I think it is worth considering (that is if you think you have what it takes to talk a bus driver into letting you on the bus with no money, in an old tshirt and very wet - and then actually managing to talk somebody on the bus into bringing you home !)
But more importantly everyone forgets about us poor folk who had to go out in the thunderstorm to try to find him while he was inside, warm and being fed! not just legendary but complete genius from him!
Next time you get that wet and cold I think it is worth considering (that is if you think you have what it takes to talk a bus driver into letting you on the bus with no money, in an old tshirt and very wet - and then actually managing to talk somebody on the bus into bringing you home !)
- ToniOD
This one's a bit sad really. Jason Inman was really very very good when he was a junior. In his last JWOC(1990?), about half way round the classic he was lying in 3rd place. A couple of controls later he made a 180 error and ran straight off the map. He's never recovered. It would have been the best JWOC result ever.
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Not really an o-mistake...
But at the Scottish 6-Days, I rolled on my ankle and sprained a ligament, so I took large doses of Ibruprofen. As the next day was the rest day, I was gonna get super drunk, drank half abottle of Whiskey before remembering that I had mixed pain killers and alcohol. I then spent 6 hours projectile vomiting pasta and bile.
Also, this has reminded me of something that was said to me a long time ago, it is probably crap. But is there any truth to a story i heard that Stan the Man took so much ibroprofen that he could not take it orally any more as his stomach was crap, so he had to use suppositories???
But at the Scottish 6-Days, I rolled on my ankle and sprained a ligament, so I took large doses of Ibruprofen. As the next day was the rest day, I was gonna get super drunk, drank half abottle of Whiskey before remembering that I had mixed pain killers and alcohol. I then spent 6 hours projectile vomiting pasta and bile.
Also, this has reminded me of something that was said to me a long time ago, it is probably crap. But is there any truth to a story i heard that Stan the Man took so much ibroprofen that he could not take it orally any more as his stomach was crap, so he had to use suppositories???
Now, I know you're a feminist, and I think that's adorable, but this is grown-up time and I'm the man.
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