Well done!
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The finish marshall noted
the time as you crossed the line and takes your control card, but more of
that later.
At larger events, with a thousand or more competitors, there is a more elaborate finish procedure, involving taped collecting funnels, numbered tickets and a computer controlled clock. We at WightO think ourselves lucky to get a hundred and so we make do with hand held timers and little else. |
| At many orienteering events
free orange squash and water are provided at the finish for competitors,
there can even be drinks stations on the course. Finished(!) competitors
often huddle around the drinks and compare experiences as the wind down with
with a drink, it's a good place to catch up with friends, to find out how
well you did at the last event and to check up on the location of the next.
At larger events a do-it-yourself results system is sometimes used. The official results will still be sent to competitors by post as usual, but when you finish you will be given a small sheet of paper with your finish time. You can add your start time and time on the course in the spaces provided and clip it to strings hung up close to the finish. I only ever do this if I run less than ten minutes per kilometer! |
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This is how you did
out on the WightO Web-O course:
You may have finished,
but the work for the event organisers continues. All the results have to
be sorted, the times calcuated and the results tables collated. Even when
the last runner has completed the course, everything has to be cleared away
and the controls collected from all over the forest. A planner, who may have
arrived in the forest at 7:00am, cannot expect to get back home before 3:00pm.
Even then there will be hours of extra work to get all the results organised.
That's it, you have come to
the end of the WightO Web-O. Why not sign the WightO
Web-O visitor's book?
Yes? What are you waiting for? The event is over for today, it's time to get back in your car and drive home. I suggest a long bath would be a good thing, you seem to have got very muddy...
If you want to know more about orienteering then here are a few links to other orienteering based websites:
BOF - The Official webite of the British Orienteering Federation
IOF - The International Orienteering Federation
Orienteering UK - A well presented source of orienteering information
Compass Sport Online - The online version of the UK orienteering magazine
Jan Kocbach's World of Orienteering - A website with links and information on all aspects of world orienteering
Global Orienteering Links - A pretty comprehensive page of links to (nearly) all orienteering websites
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