Congratulations

[gg]

To Mike Hampton of OD who last week went to his 2500th event.

Anybody else keep count?

[Tatty]

Mike has been known to do several events in a day, just as a challenge. But there is another threadon this somewhere else.

[JEP]

Yep - there are a few other sad gits about. Yesterday was my 888th. But then I am a relative newcomer having been to my first event on November 17th 1985 - Clumber Park.

[mharky]

do you know how many controls you have found, or how many mistakes you have made???

[graeme]

I've made 497 mistakes.

(Unless I'm mistaken )

[guest]

never mind that

what about this bloke that eats badgers and stuff ?
anyone know mare ?

[Jenny E]

the amount of times that Arthur has been mentioned on NOPESPORT is probably about the same as the amount of oreinteering events these guys have done! LOADS!!!

[Supersaint]

I'm up to 818 which isn't too bad for a 23-year old. A bit disappointed to have only done 9 events this year, though.

[guest]

That certainly is alot of badgers. I hope you have a lisence young man.

[Simon E]

The National Event on Sunday was event 1676, but then Mike is older than me.

And to quote from an article I wrote about an event in China:

"I finished the first day and staggered back to the British camp to announce the achievement of a personal goal - I had now orienteered on five continents. I was somewhat deflated when Mike Hampton realised that he too had now collected a set of five. We compared lists, and I discovered he'd run in more countries than me as well."

[guest]

What does Chinese badger taste like ?

[wonderboy]

I've done about 650 events since 1992.
That's 43 events per year average.
That's worryingly high.
Must find a new obsession.

1992-2000 living in SE, most run on area: Burnham Beeches!
2000-2006 living in EM, most run on area: Bloodworth Woods (EDIT: I meant Blidworth of course!)

Pleased to see that Supersaint is more obsessed than I am (we started orienteering at the same time) Although with his tendency to break limbs I may pass his running total in the next few years!!!

I'd imagine Rocky would be up there after his tour of European Multi Day events last summer!

Amazingly I do the oringen for the first time this summer.

[rocky]

I'd imagine Rocky would be up there after his tour of European Multi Day events last summer!

im sorry to disappoint but i've got no idea what my tally is. the only stat i can remember from last summer is finding 250 controls in races in 6.5 weeks.

mike hampton had some of the same controls.

done a quick count up and think i've orienteered in 23 european countries (taking home nations separately) in the last 5 years. pretty pathetic.

maybe i'll go and start a spreadsheet now so i can play with this geeking in the future. or maybe i'll learn some sums.

-m

[Gross]

Think at the last count with Mike I was ahead of him on countries.... no idea of number of events.