Just discovered a new fun activity

Well this morning, me and Nades trundled up to do orienteering, we had absolutely no idea what to expect or how long it would take(did we need to carry water and food??). Anyway, a helpful lady at registration gave us some pointers, and we choose to do the Orange course, a medium level course. Got given a map and a list of the markers. We had about 30min before we started, so we went back and sat in the car, and studied the map. Well there was no marks on the map, as I would have expected, so we were a little dumb founded, how the hell were we supposed to find the objects just by going by there description… well we pondered.

We arrived at the start with 1min to go, and we were ready to start, still with no idea how we were to find the each station, we made for the start triangle, and hoped it would become clear as we went, then we saw a tent where people were marking the stations on their maps… duh! OK so we wasted 5min putting the stations on the map, and were off. Found 1 and 2 Ok, but 3, took us a while. Then there was a whole heap of bush bashing as we climbed a rather steep hill. and had serious trouble finding 4, but then so did heaps of others, we will blame the map, because it was less than accurate. And so progressed almost 2 hrs of similar experiences, of achievements, wrong turns, steep ascents / descents, muddy bogs and absolute fun. It was brilliant and defiantly something I’d want to give another go. We certaintantly couldn’t do any worse than we did.

It was fun doing it with some one else as well, not sure if I wouldn’t have enjoyed myself so much if I had done it by myself. So me and Nades have decided we will go do the next one when ever it is. Its good for the diversty from the standard training.

Who would ever have thought that a 3K course would have taken us so long.