Age Class Prizes...

[andy]

not just us orienteering has issues with who gets what prize!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_s ... 122593.stm

[AndyC]

Anyone for weight classes in orienteering -give us gravitationally challenged gentlemen an opportunity?

[madmike]

BMI rather than just weight - surely?

[Scott]

You could just define a minimum BMI for orienteering, say 28, and then strap sandbags to anyone weighing less than that to bring them up to the appropriate weight. Should even things up a bit.

[madmike]

exactly Scott but perhaps 30 versus 28 else I need to diet

Paul Coulridge and I have a bet that he could carry the difference in our body weights in a ruc sac and still beat me over a Black Course - should be interesting as he'll need to be carrying 25-30 kilos in my guestimate. Not yet agreed the event where this handicap contest will take place but it will be at a badge/regional/level 2 (whatever we are calling them this week) in the SE this autumn!

[SeanC]

It's only the same as a handicap horse race where the horses with less skinny riders get to carry extra bags of lead.

However I once challenged someone to a body weight equal race, but then quietly dropped the idea when I realised I would have to more than double my body weight.

[Kitch]

Nicole Cooke added the British National road race title to her Olympic and world crowns in Abergavenny

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can someone remind me what the Abergavenny involves?
I know its not the one with the moped, thats the Keirin....

[Stodgetta]

It's the one where they follow the farmer riding the sheep

[greywolf]

It's the one where they follow the farmer riding the sheep

now to be fair there's been a lot less of that sort of thing since the EU cut all the grants for bestiality (a process officially known as "decoupling")

[AndyC]

[quote="madmike"]exactly Scott but perhaps 30 versus 28 else I need to diet

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32 I'm afraid for me -and that is less than it was -what's wrong with everyone must weigh 112 kg (what a giveaway to my weight) or more ?

[Jethro]

It's the one where they follow the farmer riding the sheep

now to be fair there's been a lot less of that sort of thing since the EU cut all the grants for bestiality (a process officially known as "decoupling")

Ho, Ho, Ho!
Jethro
Sheep Farmer!
p.s. Beware, if you are (as I suspect) a "sheep in wolves clothing"

[rocky]

Anyone for weight classes in orienteering -give us gravitationally challenged gentlemen an opportunity?

Kapa 3-days in Latvia had a 100kg+ class the year I was there. The prize giving podium was visibly creaking!

[madmike]

There is sometimes a clydesdale class in some triathlons in the USA for the big fellas.

Quote:
A Clydesdale Athlete is any runner or triathlete usually over 200lbs(women over 145lbs are called Athena's). Each weight group will be divided into 2 age groups: an open category for those 39 and under and a masters division for those 40 and ove

[AndyC]

200lbs is positively featherweight -I was heavier than that when I did the Great North Run 20 years ago!