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Orienteering - Movies, Music, Fashion, Sports - Posted: 3rd May, 2007 - 3:29pm
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Orienteering
I never heard of this sport before, have you? It's pretty much like running except you carry a compass and a map with you.
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| Orienteering is a running sport involving navigation with a map and compass. The traditional form (sometimes referred to as "Foot Orienteering" or "Foot-O") involves cross-country running, though other forms have evolved. The competition is a timed race in which individual participants use a special purpose map and a magnetic compass to navigate through diverse terrain (often wooded) and visit, in sequence, control points that are indicated on the map. The course of control points is kept a secret from competitors before the start, when they are provided with a detailed topographic map on which the course is marked. Competitors start at staggered intervals, are individually timed, and are expected to perform all navigation skills on their own. Standings are determined first by successful completion of the course, then by shortest time on course. |
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Orienteering
My cousin used to compete in competitions like this just for fun.
He loved the bush and has an amazing sense of direction. He got started when he joined the army with competitions between army bases then just found he enjoyed it and did more on his own.
Though in the army they called them maneuvers 
and you had 20 or so on the same team.
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