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World Orienteering Day Report
Biked to Mooney's Bay and set up the open course to encourage students to give orienteering a shot during the West Conference Track Meet and kept it available afterwards for the Ottawa Lions practices to try...
Afterwards the Wednesday practice group did a fox and the hound style workout into Vincent Massey
Well, the turnout during the day wasn't great...It was primarily the club members who worked at the tent during the day that did the course...The exceptions were a group of six grade nine girls who did the course and were keen. Philipe Turcanu did the course as well as did Gilles C who walked over from the Tupper Building during his lunch.
Jennie also has a group of ~160 intermediate students doing an outreach at St. Pat's
During the day the following did the course: Cathy, Bill, Gloria, Anita, Karen, Lorna, Richard, Mykyta, Jennie, Natasha and myself...Thanks to all of you for helping out on the day.
For the running training after wards...the following did the course ( some again) and then the training exercise...
Mykyta, Cathy, Natasha, Marketa, Rikkard, Mark, Tomas, Eric, Julia, Robbie, Dmitri, Kumiko...thanks to all of you for coming out..
Julia took down the course at about 7 PM and Mark brought all the equipment back to my driveway saving me a tremendous amount of hassle...Thank you both...
Finally I biked home...giving Natasha about 6 minutes head-start...but superior route choice won out and I beat the speedy tri-girl home!
Next year something different...a bunch of pocket orienteering outreach sessions like Jennie had would probably be the best attack....Oh well it was something to try and now we have a year to plan for the next one!