in: Orienteering; General;
| # Posted 2008-08-01 07:15:52 | |
| Bruce: | From a selector in my athletics club.
"And a top orienteer put the cat among the pigeons when she put in her entry for the Australian Cross Country Champs. As she had only run one race in which she came 3rd, it was going to have to be a good excuse for her to be selected for the Victoria squad. And it was very good. She'd been overseas competing in international orienteering races and recently came 14th in the World Orienteering Champs! We selectors squeezed her into the 6th position in a pretty strong squad." Congratulations Kathryn. |
| # Posted 2008-08-01 11:41:44 | |
| TheInvisibleLog: | Perhaps orienteering is now being recognised as a running sport. |
| # Posted 2008-08-01 15:51:15 | |
| Shep: | i assume you mean foot orienteering? |
| # Posted 2008-08-01 18:16:37 | |
| TheInvisibleLog: | No, shoe orienteering. The difference between the modes is in the footwear, not the foot, which features in bike events and ski events. |
| # Posted 2008-08-03 06:37:27 | |
| jjcote: | Or maybe "bike" and "ski" are verbs, and it should be "run-orienteering". |
| # Posted 2008-08-04 09:31:01 | |
| acejase: | cant be shoe orienteering - bikers wear shoes also. maybe sneaker-orienteering? |
| # Posted 2008-08-04 09:56:10 | |
| Bruce: | My criteria for a "sport" is that you have to change shoes for it to be classified as one. |
| # Posted 2008-08-04 10:02:22 | |
| lazydave: | running-orienteering has long been considered a sport. I made the Sydney South West cross country team in high school. |
| # Posted 2008-08-04 12:28:30 | |
| TheInvisibleLog: | True bikers wear cleats, not shoes. Just check the logs (sorry dave, trogs). |
| # Posted 2008-08-04 12:32:45 | |
| fletch: | Do the cleats screw straight into their feet? |
| # Posted 2008-08-04 16:44:43 | |
| TheInvisibleLog: | Do they? It would make some domestic tasks challenging. |
| # Posted 2008-08-08 05:29:46 | |
| jotaigna: | and tiptoeing very noisy |
| # Posted 2008-08-08 09:13:08 | |
| TheInvisibleLog: | Parquetry floors would quickly fall out of fashion. |
| # Posted 2008-08-11 17:25:36 | |
| Shep: | are they in fashion now? |
| # Posted 2008-08-11 18:13:27 | |
| TheInvisibleLog: | I'm not fashionable enough to know. |
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