Discussion: Ewels makes Victorian Cross Country team

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.

Perhaps orienteering is now being recognised as a running sport.

i assume you mean foot orienteering?

No, shoe orienteering. The difference between the modes is in the footwear, not the foot, which features in bike events and ski events.

Or maybe "bike" and "ski" are verbs, and it should be "run-orienteering".

cant be shoe orienteering - bikers wear shoes also. maybe sneaker-orienteering?

My criteria for a "sport" is that you have to change shoes for it to be classified as one.

running-orienteering has long been considered a sport. I made the Sydney South West cross country team in high school.

True bikers wear cleats, not shoes. Just check the logs (sorry dave, trogs).

Do the cleats screw straight into their feet?

Do they? It would make some domestic tasks challenging.

and tiptoeing very noisy

Parquetry floors would quickly fall out of fashion.

are they in fashion now?

I'm not fashionable enough to know.