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(Reproduced from Lokation 124, August 1999) I started orienteering in 1977, swept up by the membership rush following the World Championships in Scotland in 1976. One year later, in October 1978, the front cover of The Orienteer showed "Yvette Hague, Reading OC, just after finishing first in D12 in the Swiss 5-Day event". Twenty-one years later a new photo is needed, with a new caption: "Yvette Hague, Great Britain, just after becoming Short Distance World Champion". This must surely be one of the most popular World Championships victories ever, but it has been a long time coming. |
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So you’ve done a few events around Hertfordshire, and you’re ready to venture a bit further. Here is the “not to be missed” list to aim for. (Reproduced from Pacemaker 97, January 2006) |
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An embarrassing number of the general orienteering public have been doing silly things in the woods for a very long time. For those who weren’t there in the 60s and 70s, or who have now forgotten, here is my list of orienteering things that are no more. (Reproduced from Pacemaker 98, May 2006) |
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Read on to find out how Helen overcame her fear of planning and ended up helping Simon plan the LOK Badge Event at Holmbury Hill in November 1996. Dramatis personae Richard (Blake): Organiser Helen and Simon (Errington): Planners Bill (Greep) : Controller |
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Two-week debate at home about whether to go up Friday evening or Saturday morning. We eventually settled for Saturday morning leaving home at 6.00 a.m., since James has been waking up at 5.30 every day anyway. Helen and I are both totally knackered after 10 weeks of problems with Peter, plus moving house three weeks ago. We're also both seriously unfit, but what the hell. |
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 For those people who are familiar with Woolwich in London, the prospect of orienteering there might not be that attractive. But this Woolwich ferry set sail from Circular Quay, sailed out past Sydney Opera House, under Sydney Harbour Bridge and twenty minutes later, after a brief stop at Greenwich, arrived at Woolwich Pier. Runners could be seen from the ferry as they navigated through the parkland along the harbour edge, some coming right past the ferry terminal to a control in the small park there. |
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Several years ago (probably meaning 10 to 20) I remember reading a newspaper article that included a quote from a chess grandmaster. This was a description of the board before either player has moved and was something like “the mistakes are all there waiting to happen”. This still strikes me as a perfect description of an orienteering event in the few minutes before the first start. |
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As part of their review of how to develop orienteering within the local area the Hertfordshire Orienteering Club (HH) have asked the Institute for Advanced Physical Research (IAPR) to provide input in key areas. Professors Howard Orchard and Alberto Ximenes, already well-known for previous studies in areas of orienteering such as age group structures and cartography, have now produced their initial ideas.
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The Institute for Advanced Physical Research is one of the most respected research centres in the world, and has published numerous ground-breaking papers. Many of its studies have had particular relevance to the sport of orienteering. |
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Many orienteers will be aware of the classic 1996 paper "Predictions of future magnetic field reversals" by Professors Howard Orchard and Alberto Ximenes of the Institute for Applied Physical Research (IAPR). Now a follow-up study 10 years later has made dramatic new predictions that may have an even more fundamental impact on the sport of orienteering. |
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For newcomers to the sport it may seem odd, or may not even be apparent at all that there are three separate officials at events. It is often not clear who does what or why. Read on for a guide to officials at an orienteering event. (This is a revised version of an article I wrote in Lokation, the LOK newsletter, in 1993. I’ve updated it to add references to the 2003 BOF Rules.)
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