See today's Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/17/my-workout-sal-chaffey-urban-orienteer
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Publicity for Urban Orienteering
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Re: Publicity for Urban Orienteering
It's a great piece! Sal will be getting a fabulous CompassSport prizes for publicity pen next time i see her (if I can find them!)
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Mrs H - god
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Re: Publicity for Urban Orienteering
Great article, but I think the "essential kit" is a bit OTT and might put people off. You don't need to buy a SI Card (hire for £1) nor a £90 pair of trainers.
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Re: Publicity for Urban Orienteering
Why is a compass part of the "essential kit" for urban orienteering?
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Re: Publicity for Urban Orienteering
Agree it was a good piece, if it gets more people having a go then great.
Why is it though that every time there is a positive piece like this there are people who get all picky? If the article had said - "no special kit needed" there would have been others saying it does not make it clear it's a run not a treasure hunt.....
Why is it though that every time there is a positive piece like this there are people who get all picky? If the article had said - "no special kit needed" there would have been others saying it does not make it clear it's a run not a treasure hunt.....
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Re: Publicity for Urban Orienteering
Not intending to be picky, I just feel that if we're trying to get people into orienteering it's important not to put them off by specifying that they need expensive equipment, when as a beginner you actually need very little.
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Re: Publicity for Urban Orienteering
If we are after serious runners why not promote good (and expensive) kit? Most runners will spend a fortune on shoes, latest running tights and tops, energy bars, heart rate monitors etc etc so nothing untoward about a compass and an electronic tag.
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Re: Publicity for Urban Orienteering
Freefall wrote:If we are after serious runners why not promote good (and expensive) kit? Most runners will spend a fortune on shoes, latest running tights and tops, energy bars, heart rate monitors etc etc so nothing untoward about a compass and an electronic tag.
Here's a crazy idea, we could promote both! As a beginner you need very little fancy kit to learn the basics... if you want to get really good you can invest in all that good expensive stuff and train like mad.
But isn't that the same for a lot of sports... like golf for example. Start with a cheap half set of clubs, as you get better you invest in more clubs, better clubs, spiked golf shoes, waterproofs, club membership etc
[EDIT] - I think it's a great article actually.
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