Yesterday we went to the middle distance orienteering event that Petr was controlling for his club OK Jilemnice. It was a national competition for elite competitors and a regional competition for others. We had both entered elite. The area (called Omega after the building on the map) was steep and littered with rock features. This didn’t bode well for me as I’m not the most aggressive of runners at the best of times. With 23 controls any navigational errors soon added up. Suffice is to say that I ended up ten minutes down on the rest of the elite field and even Christine was two minutes behind the penultimate runner on her course.
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Czech orienteering failure
Sunday, September 4th, 2005Denny Lodge evening event
Thursday, August 11th, 2005Christine had her evening event at Denny Lodge tonight. Only a small turnout (16 people) but then that’s what we’d hoped for given the limited parking. Most importantly, we had lots of help collecting in controls and made it to The Crown Strirrup in time to demolish a very large fish pie.
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