Best Pre Race Music?

[DaveK]

'Where are you going?' - Dave Matthews Band - though this is hardly in the spirit of the sport.

[Nimby]

Beatles - Norwegian Wood
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
ELO - Getting to the Point

[usuallylast]

'Let's go spy a kite' from Mary Poppins

[Scott]

Talking Heads - 'Road to Nowhere'

'Love It When You Call' by The Feeling makes reference to the importance of having a good catching feature ("I hit the ditch, you carried on/I was so near, now you're so far").

[greywolf]

complete control

[oo_wrong_way]

Not just pre-race - stolen from SOC's magazine:

A Classic Rock Chart For A Bad Days Orienteering by Kieran Devine

This month’s top ten, ‘Eclectic’, album chart;

You are in the starting lane, kit checked, muscles warmed up, and at
No 10 - Here I go Again by Whitesnake (Greatest Hits: 1994)

Step over the line, punch the start, and NEW in this week
No 9 - Southbound by Thin Lizzie (Live and Dangerous: 1978)

You get into a good stride, check the map and then – up 15 places this month –
No 8 - Running up That Hill by Kate Bush (Hounds of Love: 1978)

But you decide to contour around rather than go over the top – down 3 places for
No 7 - Long Distance Run Around by Yes (Fragile: 1972)

Missed the attack point trying to find a knoll in a boulder field – NEW in at
No 6 - Like a Rock by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band (Like a Rock: 1986)

You find it eventually (kite was on the other side!) but then it’s into the woods looking for a Distinctive Tree in a new plantation of conifers, and they don’t help!! Down 3 places to
No 5 - Trees (those useless Trees) by Pulp (We Love Life: 2001)

Next control is a pit in a bracken-covered heathland and there’s no-one else around. It’s never easy and straight in at
No 4 - I’m Alone in the Wilderness by Culture (When the Two Sevens Clash: 1978)

You’ve been running around in ever decreasing circles looking for the pit. Passed two other controls but even after 8 lost minutes, its up 7 places for
No 3 - I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For by U2 (Rattle and Hum: 1988)

A passing SCOA junior points you in the right direction and you’re off again. Only 2 more controls to go and these at last look fairly straightforward. Straight in at
No 2 - Keep on Running by The Spencer Davis Group (Best of: 1967)

The Finish is in sight, and then you’re there and done. What a relief! A chance to swap idle banter with your SOC colleagues who didn’t seem to have encountered any of those problems. Time to get changed and warmed up. Suddenly Ray appears and says he knows a Real Ale Pub very close by with a log fire and a decent pint of Old and Special. Everything starts to look so much better because still for the umpteenth week it’s;

Number 1 - One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer by George Thorogood and the Destroyers (Live: 1986).
(Remember to Orienteer Responsibly)