Does anyone have any succinct explanation of our sport that will help non-orienteers understand and appreciate what we do on Sundays? I am getting fed up with people not 'getting' what it is that I do so obsessively at weekends.
One example from last week...
I thought my work colleagues were pretty clued-up on it all after working with me for 18 months, and routinely asking me on a Monday morning how the race went yesterday.
Last week at the MV National Event I went over on my ankle rendering me unable to finish my course. I told my tale of woe to a colleage who keenly asked me how my weekend of running went. After making the required sympathetic noises and facial expressions, she then asked "So what do you think it was that tripped you over? Did you run over a stone maybe?"
Grrrr. No it wasn't an effing stone that 'tripped me over'. What did she think I was running on? An athletics track with a dangerously placed pebble in the middle of it?
Does anyone else share my frustration at this ongoing issue? How do you explain orienteering to your friends and colleagues so that they don't ask stupid questions about how you got that scratch on your forearm, or on your neck, or what gave you that limp?
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"How do you explain orienteering to your friends and colleagues so that they don't ask stupid questions about how you got that scratch on your forearm, or on your neck, or what gave you that limp?"
I don't, in case they think I'm a geek.
I don't, in case they think I'm a geek.
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Ahh. I get ya Rosco......or should that be Brad?
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Yeah, ok, it's been a while. I couldn't remember his name. Tyler.
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Somone asked me the other day "Don't you find it a bit too easy once you've done a course once? Why do you go back every week?"
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Tom Fell wrote:I get so fed up with people asking me if orienteering is some kind of a treasure hunt and the controls are hidden down rabbit holes!!!
that's probably my fault.
It's so much easier to just say "it's a kind of treasure hunt..."
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fell wrote:It's so much easier to just say "it's a kind of treasure hunt..."
Yh I suppose it is! But I reckon the only way someone will have any idea about what the sport is, is to go to events. No-one can really tell them-or tell them enough so that they understand fully.
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I find even calling them 'events' is a problem. 'Event' seems to cunjure up images of some kind of gathering or meet or even an exhibition of some kind. Nowadays I say 'orienteering race'.
...but I still get the response "Do you compete at it then?"
...but I still get the response "Do you compete at it then?"
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Just pick a suitable event and take someone. On Wed 18th April, a work colleague & her boyfriend came with me to the NN race at Silksworth Sports Complex, Sunderland. Not too far to travel from Newcastle / Gateshead where we work, low key event, good value (£2.50 per map), interesting area (anywhere with more contours than East Anglia is good for me!), friendly organisers. We went round together, with each of the new orienteers taking one control in turn - having plenty of controls & legs, 17 I think, helped. They went home happy, with knees that stiffened in the car. Boyfriend said he didn't know what he was expecting, but it was more fun than he expected. I'm hoping they or some other colleagues will come next week to Herrington.
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