Room 1'O'1

[streaker]

1: BOFS rules of swearing on the finish line.

2:No music at british orienteering events

3.No beer tents

[J.Tullster]

1. Pyjama o-suits

2. People that seem to want to take the fun out of o-events i.e "we're not having that in cartmel village in the morning"

3. People that love the sound of their own voice a bit too much

[rosalind]

long walks up mountains to starts

Long legs up the mountain when you've just started.

[fell]

ruth wrote:
long walks up mountains to starts


Long legs up the mountain when you've just started

I was about to say, isn't better that you climb before you start?


boulder fields

[Paul T]

SI stakes which keel over and no-one can be bothered to take 3 seconds to put back in again.
Bits of insulating tape for securing shoe laces - there just must be a better way.
Bits of discarded insulating tape on car park fields.
Start locations from where you can watch people all the way to #1.
Sennybridge.

[Meat Market]

Wilfs and its proximity to the porta loos (have you ever been to an event where wilfs was selling that brown stuff that hasnt had porta loos?? )

Feching oringen organisers who pipe "The Bear Necessities" down the run in while im trying to concentrate in running like a demon with an inflatable killer whale under their arm.

Feching oringen organisers who decide that simone luder is more important than seeing a killer whale on the run in.

Feching oringen organisers who decide not to have cameras at the one day me and pyrat were mud wrestling in the run in (it were a dead heat).

People who cant understand why some newcomers might feel scared about coming aloong to the event and then turn up in bright orange and purple skintight lycra

The fact not many average punters in britain know much about our favourite sport

[mharky]

bosch phones
pine needles hidden in moss when you've gone for a wild one
my room right now

[FatBoy]

runing at 90degrees to furrows in forest when your legs just aren't long enough to reach from one to the next

I just don't have that problem....

people who run faster than you but can't orienteer so you catch them up at every control

That's fun! After the 5th control you've overtaken them again they mutter something amusing, after the 8th they aren't smiling any more.

[mharky]

whats more anoying is you just can't get into it, keep making little mistakes and re-catching up some slow arse at every control...

[FatBoy]

So it's you then...

[Rich]

Bloody horse riders......No, I won't slow down I'm in a race.

[Neil M35]

Yes bloody horse riders - "If my horse kills you it will be your own fault!' pah

and people who ask 'Are you training for the London Marathon then?',

and bloody women walking around town with bloody unbrellas held right down over their eyes when it's barely even drizzling and poke your eye out every five yards - although that one has nothing to do with o.

[Klebe]

Theres a thought - anyone for umbrellO

[Stodgetta]

Dog jobby

Yoxeter Ranges on the Mendips (cow jobby you can't avoid going knee deep in), although the map has got a very phallic depression there was always a control in...

[ryeland of doom]

Yoxeter: the only map I've got in my collection was a doctored OS photocopy from c. 1973, must have been one of the last examples from the dark ages..