Geeks in orienteering

[DIDSCO]

Why are the biggest geeks in orienteering rarely any good at the sport?

[Adventure Racer]

Please define geek and name names

[harry]

they spend too much time anal-ysing and not enough time training?

[Steve]

You can't be an orienteer without being a geek / anorak on some level. The whole thing is an exercise in geekiness. I think this includes you, Didsco!

[Gnitworp]

Please define geek

Geek (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

A carnival person often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a chicken or snake.

[PKJ]

Is mapping for orienteering geeky?
I suspect most non-orienteers would think so, yet many mappers have been extremely good at the sport.

[Gnitworp]

DIDSCO

How can you be good at orienteering if the luck element is magnified by bingo controls, inconsistent mapping, ambiguous out of bounds marking etc, etc, etc, etc?

It's the 'geeks' that stop orienteering being no more than a silly party game.

Live with them!

[rosalind]

It's a geeky sport. Maybe you just notice it more in those that fail to get the top results.
Though, I think having a mapping system set up alphabetically and yearly, all organised through the computer is a wee bit too geeky...

[Julie Valighton]

Didsco, you doth protest too much, methinks. (Yes, I know it's geeky to use that quote + know it was the Queen in Hamlet).
This is the second post today about this!
a) What's wrong with being a Geek?
b) Where is the corelation between being a Geek + being good at something?
c) I don't class myself as a geek, but I don't have good results at Orienteering; if I practice more at Geekiness will my orienteering improve?
d)Maybe this is on your mind as it's coming up to Pi day (March 14, or as the americans write it 3/14)

[wonderboy]

Ed Nash was/is a self confessed geek and he's good.
Lilywhite's definitely a geek and he's good.
In fact many members of the british squad do a disturbing amount of map geeking and preparation for the big races.
Craney had worked out the long leg for the british champs last year before we ran the course, worked out his route, and won the leg by 30secs.
GG plays catching features for extra training!
Sadly, the very nature of the sport attracts obsessive compulsive people!

Still agree with DIDSCO that nopesport threads seem quite boring these days - will try to start some interesting threads if i can.

[P2B]

Wonderboy's a geek and he can sometimes be good

[bendover]

craney is an utter geek.

[Adventure Racer]

c) I don't class myself as a geek
d)Maybe this is on your mind as it's coming up to Pi day (March 14, or as the americans write it 3/14)

c is contradicted by knowing about d

GG plays catching features for extra training!

As does Nails, OJ and even Tero.

[Jagge]

Why are the biggest geeks in orienteering rarely any good at the sport?

Mats Troeng wrote WinSplits. Isn't he any good?

[Kitch]

craney is an utter geek.

what no gimp ?