in: Orienteering; General;
| # Posted 2006-01-17 01:17:56 | |
| Kat: | (1) you show off your scratches and bruises with pride
(2) You optimize your route choices to and from the supermarket (3) You contemplate moving to Sweden (4) You stand around after each race comparing results (5) You always have at least one O-map in the bathroom (6) You orient a street map of your town to the magnetic north, even if it means all the street names are upside down (7) When you begin doodling in a boring class, the doodles all look like contour lines and you feel a compulsion to add the tick mark showing which way is down (8) You hit the "refresh" button every 5 minutes while waiting for race splits to appear online. (9) You consider taping the shoelaces on your dress shoes (10) you start getting competitive about training volume on Attackpoint (11) You think that Gu makes a perfectly acceptable meal (12) You can recite your Sport Ident number from memory, but often have trouble remembering your phone number (13) You break out laughing when you realize your pile of dirty clothes looks like a dot knoll [Credit must be given when it is deserved: Boris came up with half of these (probably the better half).] Any other good ones? |
| # Posted 2006-01-17 01:44:56 | |
| Boojums: | (14) While driving, you never actually get lost, you just make "x min mistakes". |
| # Posted 2006-01-17 02:21:18 | |
| urthbuoy: | - You own a one-piece O-suit that has people asking if you were on tour with Olivia Newton-John or MC Hammer.
- Somebody asks you how to work their GPS, and you launch in to a 20 minute tirade about how those things are useless for navigation. |
| # Posted 2006-01-17 02:46:42 | |
| jfredrickson: | Haha! I've definitely done that with GPS! |
| # Posted 2006-01-17 02:52:50 | |
| Ollie: | (17) You think there's nothing wrong with wearing clothes made up of 6 different colours.
(18) Your "ultimate embarrassment" is getting lost on the way to an event. |
| # Posted 2006-01-17 07:05:08 | |
| Hammer: | >Somebody asks you how to work their GPS, and you launch in to a 20 minute tirade about how those things are useless for navigation.
Exactly! I've done that too. 19) You have your head upside down in the mall trying to orient the large neon store directory map. 20) You can't drive past open woods without saying "Oooh nice woods...that would make a great orienteering area" |
| # Posted 2006-01-17 07:06:46 | |
| Hammer: | 21) You know exactly how many double paces it is from your house to the mail box, the grocery store, your kid's school, the neighbours house,.... |
| # Posted 2006-01-17 07:11:22 | |
| jmm: | 21) You looked at all the people stuck on the interstate fleeing Houston, and wondered "Didn't they look on the map for a better route?"
22) When someone tries to give you directions to their house, you totally ignore them and say "Just tell me the address, I have a map and I can find my own way there". I also own some fine 1-piece suits (some of which have the required 6 colours), but they are for ski racing and not orienteering. They do, however, require the same amount of confidence in your manhood. |
| # Posted 2006-01-17 09:38:42 | |
| O Steve!: | You thumb your grocery checklist....... |
| # Posted 2006-01-17 10:27:40 | |
| Kat: | 23) You are no longer surprised at finding a control
24) At a new job, you actually look at the blueprint of your office floor. It's important to know all the possible route choices to the bathroom, right? 25) On a boring day at work, you draw a sprint-O course on your office floor blueprint. 26) You complain about people who park their huge mobile homes between two trees and announce they are "camping." |
| # Posted 2006-01-17 10:31:41 | |
| salal: | I once wrote these as "You know you are obsessed with orienteering when:"
- All of your white socks are no longer white or you buy grey or black socks so the dirt doesnt show - Your room or office is strewn with recent maps that you have yet to file in your map filing system - A lot of what you own has an orienteering sticker on it - There is a bag on the floor you have yet to fully unpack from your most recent orienteering trip - Your car and/or a lot of your clothes have a distinct orienteering smell - You have started to recognize a distinct smell to your orienteering stuff, and it doesnt come out in the wash -Your compass is one of your most prized possessions - You spend a lot of your time surfing random orienteering websites - You spend a lot of your time fantasizing meets you might go to in the future - You compare most life situations to orienteering problems |
| # Posted 2006-01-17 23:46:30 | |
| GregBalter: | 27) You read all of the above and find it funny, not disturbing. |
| # Posted 2006-01-17 23:48:32 | |
| Jerritt: | 28) Your child knows the words orienteering, course and compass before he/she is potty trained.
29) Any piece of paper your child sees with writing on it is a "map" 30) Any line your child draws is a "trail" Am I a bad parent? |
| # Posted 2006-01-18 00:37:07 | |
| jjcote: | 31) 0CAD is the only software graphics package you know how to use, so you do everything with it (e.g. make calendars). |
| # Posted 2006-01-18 01:58:03 | |
| Hammer: | 32) Your child believes the three primary colours are lakes, fields, and out of bounds areas...
>Am I a bad parent? No... good parent... good parent! |
| # Posted 2006-01-18 02:37:56 | |
| blegg: | Ha! I used OCAD to format and print my graduation paperwork last term! (When you've got a presigned form, there's no better program for scanning in a template, placing text, and printing precisely to scale) |
| # Posted 2006-01-18 03:55:48 | |
| johncrowther: | 33) You've lived in your town less than 1 year, and can find your way round it better than people who've lived there all their lives
34) You go for a run with others in an area you don't know, and feel you have to look at a map afterwards to work out where you went (or even draw a map of where you went) 35) When travelling a long distance you think in terms of orienteering areas (not cities) that you drive past 36) (For recent Windows to Mac converts only) - You've kept that old Windows PC, but only for running all the orienteering software that only runs on Windows (eg OCAD, Catching Features) |
| # Posted 2006-01-18 08:58:23 | |
| cedarcreek: | 37) Whenever you drive by forest, you assess runnability. If it's white, you really want to run through it. |
| # Posted 2006-01-18 17:46:53 | |
| tonyf: | 38) Your five-year-old grandson draws you an O map for a birthday card. |
| # Posted 2006-01-19 00:56:57 | |
| Suzanne: | 39) You go running near a friend's house and run on trails and roads that they didn't know existed or never walked/ran/drove on before. |
| # Posted 2006-01-19 04:34:58 | |
| DragonFly: | 40) You draw magnetic north lines on your government topo maps. |
| # Posted 2006-01-19 08:00:41 | |
| iriharding: | 28 B) You, your wife and your kid (who isn't even potty trained yet) all feature regularly on attackpoint logs
3 AP folks in one household ...100% coverage by the Johnstons of MNOC in Mpls |
| # Posted 2006-01-19 08:24:58 | |
| thiesd: | >>Quote>> 21) You looked at all the people stuck on the interstate fleeing Houston, and wondered "Didn't they look on the map for a better route?"
we didn't have a choice the cops were ticketting anybody that didnt go the way directed by them.9 ithink they where a also ordered shoot to kill) and during that time i did find a ruopte that saved my car about three hours on nothing but orienteering intuition |
| # Posted 2006-01-19 10:13:31 | |
| pfc: | 41) A few days later you dream about a course you recently ran (I won't say whether for better or for worse!)
42) You've abandoned clothes in a hotel room after the meet. 43) You think nothing of driving for 16 hours in order to run around in a strange place for 90 minutes. 44) Your child can read the IOF symbols before they can read the "beginner" clue sheets. |
| # Posted 2006-01-19 13:30:43 | |
| ebone: | 45) The squares in the quilt on your bed look like control markers.
46) When you babysit, you often take the child(ren) orienteering. Bonus points if it's on a map you made. I also embody these: >20) You can't drive past open woods without saying "Oooh nice woods...that would make a great orienteering area" >22) When someone tries to give you directions to their house, you totally ignore them and say "Just tell me the address, I have a map and I can find my own way there" > 31) 0CAD is the only software graphics package you know how to use, so you do everything with it (e.g. make calendars). [although I'm learning a couple other programs now.] |
| # Posted 2006-01-20 18:58:41 | |
| tonyf: | 45a) The squares in the quilt on your bed ARE control markers. |
| # Posted 2006-01-20 20:10:39 | |
| ndobbs: | 47) you have removed moss and/or ferns from between your butt-cheeks
48) taking a communal dump with people you don't know no longer seems weird 49) taking a communal dump with people you do know no longer seems weird |
| # Posted 2006-01-20 20:24:55 | |
| Sergey: | 50!
50) You know that 'orienteer' is a person who participates in orienteering sport not some distant object. And you know how to spell both! |
| # Posted 2006-01-20 20:47:20 | |
| Boojums: | Neil, what kind of meets do you go to? I think I've been missing out. |
| # Posted 2006-01-20 21:08:06 | |
| vmeyer: | Along Neil's thread - 51) You have a whole set of orienteering undies - that brown stain from slidding down a hill will never come out! And let's not talk about the color of the socks! |
| # Posted 2006-01-20 22:13:24 | |
| pkturner: | 52) A weather forecast of storm, wind, and flood for the weekend reminds you of a fun time you once had in the woods. |
| # Posted 2006-01-20 23:32:51 | |
| Ollie: | (53) "mins/km" replaces mph as your standard unit of speed. For everything. |
| # Posted 2006-01-21 02:06:36 | |
| Boojums: | man, i should start talking to the pilots like that. "pilot, fly indicated airspeed of .25 mins/km". they'd freak out. |
| # Posted 2006-10-12 07:54:36 | |
| upnorthguy: | Found it. |
| # Posted 2006-10-12 12:11:45 | |
| _________: | I think I can tick 27 of 54. An exact 50%. Do I pass? Am I an orienteer? |
| # Posted 2006-10-12 15:08:26 | |
| Jagge: | 54) When you selected your honeymoon trip destination, the selection was based purely on O-maps and terrains. |
| # Posted 2006-10-12 17:14:15 | |
| MrMoosehead: | 55) You wear Lyrca when you really shouldn't..
56) You don't immediately think its a Clown Hunt when you see hundreds of people in bright coloured clothes running around the fells in the rain. |
| # Posted 2006-10-12 18:22:55 | |
| Jerritt: | 57) You have to harvest the plants that grew in your backyard from the burrs you picked off your clothes. |
| # Posted 2006-10-12 18:53:46 | |
| Natasha: | You found out how to get your revenge on stingning neddles.
-Boil them & eat them like spinach |
| # Posted 2006-10-12 19:09:57 | |
| speedy: | Actually it tastes pretty good:) |
| # Posted 2006-10-12 21:04:41 | |
| Sergey: | 59) You are preoccupied with intricacies of World Ranking Event statistical calculations most of your day time. And during night you would wake up with eureka scream finding one more genius scheme how to trick it.
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| # Posted 2006-10-12 21:20:04 | |
| AZ: | A friend of mine who's wife doesn't orienteer told me this (really)...
69) My fantasy is that my wife will wear a thumb compass when we make love |
| # Posted 2006-10-12 21:44:11 | |
| Boojums: | Okay, that's a thread-killer if I've ever seen one. |
| # Posted 2006-10-12 22:39:44 | |
| div: | to navigate bodyscape? |
| # Posted 2006-10-12 22:58:36 | |
| Gil: | to take a bearing which way to... ahmm... go? |
| # Posted 2006-10-12 23:33:52 | |
| jjcote: | Those SI dipsticks work pretty well if you wear them... never mind. |
| # Posted 2006-10-13 00:20:06 | |
| Boojums: | 10 points for J-J. |
| # Posted 2006-10-13 00:51:13 | |
| div: | but thumb compass could be more exciting |
| # Posted 2006-10-13 05:07:58 | |
| emilyr: | 60) When all the shirts you own are from o-meets |
| # Posted 2006-10-13 06:35:13 | |
| smittyo: | 61) You use costume dress-up days as an excuse to wear your O-suit.
So far I've done this twice this school year. Once was for "Extreme Sports" dress up day and the other.... yup - "Pajama Day" |
| # Posted 2006-10-13 06:58:19 | |
| MeanGene: | 62. Your son isn't even 1 year old and take a photo of him by a marker and say he's in the M-0 category.
63 - Think road running as borienteering. |
| # Posted 2006-10-13 07:05:53 | |
| Boojums: | 64. You take pictures of a stuffed elephant doing things that orienteers do. |
| # Posted 2006-10-13 07:23:45 | |
| Clara: | < 64. You take pictures of a stuffed elephant doing things that orienteers do.
Or inflatable penguin...Ingrid, Vic schools team mascot in 2002 |
| # Posted 2006-10-13 17:21:49 | |
| Acampbell: | 65.- you get a compass necklace for a graduation present and you've never take if off. |
| # Posted 2006-10-13 17:41:21 | |
| furlong47: | 66) You have a full-sized control as part of your home decor (mine hangs from the dresser)
67) People at work no longer need to ask "What happened to you?" when you come to work covered in scratches/gashes/bruises on Monday... because they already know 68) You keep a map in your car in order to explain to strangers about orienteering |
| # Posted 2006-10-13 17:58:07 | |
| kofols: | 69) When you finally self-made your own o-web page and updating it constantly.
70) When you buy shoes without trying it. |
| # Posted 2006-10-13 18:21:30 | |
| _________: | 71) When AttackPoint is your browser home page. |
| # Posted 2006-10-13 19:40:56 | |
| Natasha: | 72) When a teacher calls home or asks you directly if everything is allright because of all the gashes you have on your arms. |
| # Posted 2006-10-13 20:38:26 | |
| Acampbell: | 73) if you always have attackpoint or other o-ing web sites up. and have gotten yelled at by teacher for checking them in class. |
| # Posted 2006-10-14 01:40:44 | |
| Ricka: | 74) When the nurse doing your history is concerned about the scars near both wriists. She accepts the O' explanation when she notices, "You have scars all over your arms."
75) When you get criticized by a student for paying to much attention to O-sites during class :) |
| # Posted 2006-10-14 02:02:12 | |
| Rosstopher: | 76) you actually use the split function on your watch
77) the biggest celebrity you know is Marc Lauenstein 78) when meeting new people, learning their name is not as important as learning their Attackpoint handle 79) your friends say "that's for sure" in a passable Pers Forsberg impersonation, having picked it up from you 80) you are really good at seeing orange things in your peripheral vision |
| # Posted 2006-10-14 02:03:45 | |
| j-man: | He is running so good today! That's for sure. |
| # Posted 2006-10-14 02:05:38 | |
| Hammer: | >79) your friends say "that's for sure" in a passable Pers Forsberg impersonation, having picked it up from you
So after his announcing at NAOC, does NevMonster have a future as North America's version of Per F.? |
| # Posted 2006-10-14 02:44:12 | |
| Boojums: | I think I only heard, "he's too late!" once at NAOC, and that's just not enough. That's for sure. |
| # Posted 2006-10-14 03:22:33 | |
| div: | 81) ...when you know who Pers Forsberg is... |
| # Posted 2006-10-14 04:35:44 | |
| Barbie: | >81) ...when you know who Pers Forsberg is...
That's for sure |
| # Posted 2006-10-14 04:37:30 | |
| div: | no questions asked |
| # Posted 2006-10-14 16:12:27 | |
| Charlie: | 82) On the spur of the moment you show up at a local meet across the country in a place you've never been, and the first ten people you see are all people you know. |
| # Posted 2006-10-14 20:24:24 | |
| Tundra/Desert: | ... and isn't that sad? the all the people that you know part. |
| # Posted 2006-10-15 01:00:37 | |
| Acampbell: | 83) When you go to IKEA and one you never get lost. two you find at lest 5 things that reminds you of orienteering. |
| # Posted 2006-10-15 05:09:34 | |
| emilyr: | 84) When you decorate your Christmas tree wiht mini o-controls. |
| # Posted 2006-10-15 05:53:54 | |
| Sarah: | >66) You have a full-sized control as part of your home decor (mine hangs from the dresser)
Mine is my lampshade and makes the room glow orange when it's dark and the only light on. |
| # Posted 2006-10-15 09:28:21 | |
| JimBaker: | Of course, that's what they call control markers in Sweden...how apropos. |
| # Posted 2006-10-16 21:06:27 | |
| Sergey: | 85) When your wife stops asking people on the street for directions instead relying on you and a copy of the map printed off the Internet. Actually it is, probably, the best sign that you moved to "elite" orienteering category :) |
| # Posted 2006-10-16 23:00:13 | |
| ndobbs: | tell thomas bührer that! |
| # Posted 2006-10-17 00:40:53 | |
| Gil: | >85) When your wife stops asking people on the street for directions instead relying on you and a copy of the map printed off the Internet. Actually it is, probably, the best sign that you moved to "elite" orienteering category :)
I do ask for directions in situations when I feel I am close enough to my final destination but for one or another reason I did not "spiked" and I figure that local person could get me to the final destination faster then me trying to relocate on the map. |
| # Posted 2006-10-17 02:37:02 | |
| Adam: | 86)You get a cramp in your neck while driving south because you had to turn your head upside too many times to read the city names. (Or you're too good for that and don't have to read the city names to know where you are) |
| # Posted 2006-10-17 06:57:34 | |
| MeanGene: | 84a) When you decorate your Christmas tree with control punches. . . |
| # Posted 2006-10-17 18:47:32 | |
| IndyBass: | 87) ...you draw an O-map (using OCAD) of your house and yard. Then you teach your five-year-old to use the map to find baseballs hidden around the property. Extra credit if the map is ISSOM-compliant (mine is not :). |
| # Posted 2006-10-17 18:56:43 | |
| maprunner: | 87) you draw a map of your house.....
We "hired" Swampfox to make our map, then held a local meet on it, using only punches. |
| # Posted 2006-10-17 19:10:07 | |
| Bash: | Our 10-acre property is currently being mapped to sprint standards in anticipation of a club BBQ night. |
| # Posted 2006-10-17 19:58:16 | |
| Sergey: | 88) When running in shoes with couple holes is fine if outsole is still intact (especially if it is wet outside since everything you are wearing will be wet soon anyway). Just put couple layers of duct tape and off you go!
89) When running in the woods during rain does not seem strange anymore. Contrary you found some pleasure in pre-soaking before venturing into woods. 90) When the only wild creature you are afraid of is called "attack badger" since you already have met bears, wolfs, moose, wild pigs, kangaroos, and deers and they ALL ran scared from you. |
| # Posted 2006-10-17 20:22:35 | |
| JimBaker: | Mmmm...you haven't run into bison yet... |
| # Posted 2006-10-17 20:32:30 | |
| Boojums: | Shouldn't that be, "yum, you haven't run into bison yet...yum!" |
| # Posted 2006-10-17 21:20:29 | |
| DHemer: | 91) The only shoes you own are those you use for orienteering
92) You have more clothes you run orienteering in that you have other clothes 93) You would rather run across open land or through forest than on a perfectally usable road (not in a race) |
| # Posted 2006-10-17 21:56:56 | |
| jjcote: | 90a) You aren't exactly afraid of ticks, but they do concern you... on a regular basis. |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 00:48:08 | |
| Adam: | 91)you aren't that afraid of "getting lost" any more; all it will do is slow you down. |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 01:23:37 | |
| cedarcreek: | 90b) You've looked into getting vaccinated for Tick-Borne Encephalitis (TBE), even though neither the disease nor the vaccine exists on your continent. |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 01:28:00 | |
| Bash: | 90c) On second thought, maybe you ARE afraid of ticks. |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 01:36:37 | |
| cedarcreek: | My point wasn't to be alarmist, worrrying about TBE in North America, but because of competitions one might go to in TBE-prone areas. |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 01:43:10 | |
| Bash: | And that includes a good chunk of Europe, so it's worth reading about it. Weren't people supposed to get this vaccine for the World Cup in Estonia? How did they get it if it's not available in North America? |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 01:48:52 | |
| Tundra/Desert: | Indeed the only woods creatures I am still scared of are ticks. Have been through a bear encounter and (quite possibly) a mt. lion encounter, and lived to tell with all organs intact. Not so lucky with ticks. |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 01:55:08 | |
| Boojums: | You lost an organ to a tick? Or you just have a less-functioning organ because of a tick? |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 01:56:58 | |
| ebone: | Too bad the tick couldn't have given you super powers, like in a comic book. |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 01:58:32 | |
| ebone: | Or you just have a less-functioning organ because of a tick?
Tick-borne ED. It's no laughing matter. |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 01:58:54 | |
| Tundra/Desert: | It is the latter which is slowly transforming into the former. The organ is the left ear (hair cells, to be exact). I was so so super lucky it didn't do anything to my joints. Else life wouldn't be so pretty nowdays.
So, my point is—the smaller the lifeform, the more hazardous. Attack badgers rate fairly low; for all we know about them (firsthand from Swampfox at least), these are about the size of a cow, so can't be that bad for you. |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 01:59:21 | |
| randy: | Indeed the only woods creatures I am still scared of are ticks.
I'm scared of the primates in certain North American locales ... |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 02:01:35 | |
| Tundra/Desert: | Oh, those are super friendly as long as you're packing, too. |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 02:34:54 | |
| JimBaker: | Personal Taser(TM), on the market soon... :-(
Of course, when cokeheads are in the White House not just your neighbourhood and foyer and parkade, are you ever safe? |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 03:49:43 | |
| Acampbell: | yeah i'm now only scared of tickes although i have gotten a little less scared of them since i got limes disesase for the second time.
oh no never mind i'm scared of snakes as well!! |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 08:39:52 | |
| bishop22: | 87a) ...you draw an O-map (using OCAD) of your house and yard. But your 10-year-old ignores that map and draws one freehand, so he can set a course for your 5-year-old (using the pint-sized training controls you picked up last spring).
95 - S'fox took 94) You can't hold back any longer and design a "Tan" (Brown length / White level) course for the local high school Cross Country team, for a leisurely workout the day before a race. But it backfires because you're out of town and your 9th-grade son runs the course to set the controls, then runs it again with his friends, giving him over an hour of running on the day before the last league meet of the year. |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 08:42:03 | |
| furlong47: | I'm only scared of spiders *shudder* and those thousand-legger things (but you don't normally see them in the woods)
I guess I'm lucky in that I hardly ever get bitten by ticks, mosquitoes, or other insects, even if everyone else is covered in bites. So I'm not scared of them. Maybe I have bitter blood. I also don't get any type of poison. |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 10:37:12 | |
| Gil: | 95 - S'fox took 94) You can't hold back any longer and design a "Tan" (Brown length / White level) course for the local high school Cross Country team, for a leisurely workout the day before a race. But it backfires because you're out of town and your 9th-grade son runs the course to set the controls, then runs it again with his friends, giving him over an hour of running on the day before the last league meet of the year.
Depends how you measure success. Maybe your 9th-grader was too tired for the next day race but if you get any x-country converts... maybe it was worth the effort.. |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 18:48:33 | |
| Gil: | 20) You can't drive past open woods without saying "Oooh nice woods...that would make a great orienteering area"
I do that too.. but I also often wonder how long it is going to take for builders to move in and build highly priced private properties. |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 18:48:38 | |
| Adam: | 96)you spend your spare time thinking of strange things that orienteers do. |
| # Posted 2006-10-18 22:05:27 | |
| DHemer: | too right adam too right |
| # Posted 2006-10-19 02:59:36 | |
| Acampbell: | 97) you ask your principle to see the floor plan of your new high school so you can plan your routes between classes. you look for 5 mins and you already have them memorized. then you are always the last one out of class and the first one to the next becuase of your great routes to and from classes. |
| # Posted 2006-10-19 03:12:59 | |
| fthfl stwrd rudy: | 98) your glad you have a sinus infection, because it gives you an excuse to wander in the woods without feeling guilty. 'well, as long as i'm sick, and cant get anything done, i might as well...' |
| # Posted 2006-10-19 03:15:12 | |
| _________: | 99) You spend far too much time on attack point.
Lets kill this before we get to 100. It doesn't look good to normal human beings. |
| # Posted 2006-10-19 03:23:57 | |
| div: | "99) It doesn't look good to normal human beings.."
100) if it looks normal for you - than you are in |
| # Posted 2006-10-19 03:35:12 | |
| danf: | I think none of these are repeats...
101) the word rogaine doesn't conjure up images of balding men 102) the uppers of your shoes wear out before the bottoms 103) someone at your marathon training group comments on your "very old shoes" that you just bought brand new last week 104) you switch from latin to smooth dance competitions to better hide your bruised/scratched legs (long vs short dress for women) 105) your photo appears in the SDO Handrail (or insert local O-club newsletter here) 106) you've been featured on the cover of ONA 107) you know what ONA stands for 108) you say "an a meet" and you're not stuttering 109) you hear "SI", you immediately think "yes!" yet don't know a bit of Spanish 110) your grammar are slightly off and you don't know why 111) someone passes you on a college campus, shouts "Jaywalker!" at you and you think, "no I moved up to M21 last year" 112) your favorite chumbawumba song is not Tubthumping 113) you associate badgers with wyoming more than wisconsin 114) no one can tell what brand of shoe you're wearing because they're so heavily covered in duct tape 115) you wear gaiters with shorts |
| # Posted 2006-10-19 05:13:50 | |
| Jerritt: | 116) You shout "re-entrant" at seemingly random times in the car.
117) You think choosing which lane to go down at the the grocery store is a route choice. |
| # Posted 2006-10-19 07:04:35 | |
| Gil: | ... It doesn't look good to normal human beings.
I had similar thought... Many of orienteering observations are true and funny and I can relate... however more I read this I will try to say this politely as possibly... There is life outside orienteering as well... |
| # Posted 2006-10-19 10:04:40 | |
| JimBaker: | There is life outside orienteering as well...
Yeah, but no attack badgers. |
| # Posted 2006-10-19 10:44:38 | |
| Jagge: | 109 b) you hear "SI", you immediately think "No!".
No matter how good your Spanish skills are. |
| # Posted 2006-10-19 21:20:06 | |
| bubo: | 109 b) you hear "SI", you immediately think "No!".
I can understand your reactions... ;) |
| # Posted 2006-10-20 07:55:46 | |
| b0be: | 110) While making your post event visit to the Emergency Room they take one look at you and ask, "Do you feel safe at home?"
(This really happened after the 2005, Buena Vista portion of the Colorado 5-Days.) 111) After your visit to the ER, you return to compete the next day. |
| # Posted 2006-10-20 12:40:53 | |
| liggo: | 112. The thing you fear most in life is the control description "Pit, overgrown, inside" |
| # Posted 2006-10-20 17:39:04 | |
| Sswede: | 113. When you hava a Wedding "O" the day before the real wedding to prove to your friends and family that the sport really exists.
114. When the 4 tier wedding cake is to made to look like an O map, contours and all 115. When you look forward to doing naked "tick checks" on your spouse after events (after the shower of course!). |
| # Posted 2006-10-21 00:08:49 | |
| mikeminium: | 116. When you continue to go orienteering after doing a face-plant on a granite boulder during a sprint race, including enduring the following comments: The medic at the finish, whom you've known for years, looks at you and says "Who is this?" Someone says "Mike!" and she replies "Mike who?". Then, when you get to the ER, the doc takes one look at you and says "This is beyond me -- I'm going to make some phone calls". True story - Wyoming '04. |
| # Posted 2006-10-21 00:28:30 | |
| Sarah: | 117) when doodling in a boring class you make imaginary map samples of terrain you like to orienteer in. |
| # Posted 2006-10-21 02:09:45 | |
| JanetT: | 118. You race for nearly an hour on a leg broken in two places so as not to let down your team. (No, not me!) Article |
| # Posted 2006-10-21 02:21:18 | |
| Acampbell: | wow that is encredable i would never have been able to do that!!! |
| # Posted 2006-10-21 02:36:43 | |
| danf: | > wow that is encredable i would never have been able to do that!!!
118b. You admire someone for racing on a broken leg. |
| # Posted 2006-10-21 23:09:20 | |
| mnipen: | 119) When you are drving to somewhere, you don't admire the nice houses, the people, mountains etc. but the terrain you are looking at outside your window. |
| # Posted 2006-10-23 07:19:34 | |
| Janus: | ooh brave kid. I don't think I'd be able to do that...
120) you do a permanent o-course for X-Country practice, and come back with an updated map and the CORRECTED control locations on your school map |
| # Posted 2006-10-26 02:52:29 | |
| Acampbell: | 121) you walk 800 or so meters into the woods just to take this picture
122) when you look at your pumpkin and vanilla ice cream and think "oh cool my ice cream looks like an o-ing flag" |
| # Posted 2006-10-26 05:28:00 | |
| Barbie: | 123) you don't know how to spell encredable but you know how to spell orienteering |
| # Posted 2006-10-26 06:04:38 | |
| Acampbell: | 123a) how about you don't know how to spell many words but know how to spell almost anything that has to do with orienteering. |
| # Posted 2006-10-26 06:21:30 | |
| jjcote: | Isn't it "encroièble"? |
| # Posted 2006-10-26 08:09:53 | |
| Torgeir: | 124) you eat oatmeal porridge for breakfast every day. |
| # Posted 2006-10-26 09:07:40 | |
| creamer: | "123) you don't know how to spell encredable but you know how to spell orienteering"
-- now thats a bit of a stretch. "123a) how about you don't know how to spell many words but know how to spell almost anything that has to do with orienteering." thats a little closer, re-entrant is a tricky word, as is OCAD |
| # Posted 2006-10-26 14:16:57 | |
| Torgeir: | 125) you take tran* every morning.
*cod-liver oil or fish oil -not in capsules but in liquid form |
| # Posted 2006-10-26 16:23:12 | |
| Adam: | BTW-its spelled "incredible". |
| # Posted 2006-10-26 18:03:57 | |
| cjross: | But actual fish oil tastes better than the capsules anyways. Especially if you get the lemon flavoured stuff, which is quite nice. |
| # Posted 2006-10-26 20:01:02 | |
| cedarcreek: | 123b) You call it OCAD to everyone except J-J, to whom you use 0CAD, to be polite. |
| # Posted 2006-10-27 06:24:36 | |
| Torgeir: | 126) cjross: you are without doubt an orienteer when you make a statement like that& that stuff is nasty, the lemon only makes it worse by attempting to mask the totally revolting taste. |
| # Posted 2006-10-27 08:55:45 | |
| creamer: | 127 - You are glad to spend more than $30 on a compass. Especially one that is really no good for simple navigation (spectra). |
| # Posted 2006-11-02 05:42:23 | |
| ceira: | when you pass the time on the toilet by picking little black splinters out of your thighs |
| # Posted 2006-11-18 02:27:53 | |
| Sergey: | 128) You find it entertaining to talk about race enhancing qualities of regular multi-bottle wine consumption and do it with some skepticism. Though somewhere deep inside you feel that it must be right. |
| # Posted 2006-11-18 18:22:05 | |
| bubo: | (...or at least a map freak)
when you find this kind of thing amusing... |
| # Posted 2006-11-18 18:56:47 | |
| jjcote: | The alphabet seems to be pretty heavy on Tucson, AZ. I don't know if it says something about me or not that I immediately recognized one of the buildings (not in Tucson). |
| # Posted 2006-11-19 06:46:50 | |
| JimBaker: | And fittingly enough a Calgary building is the C. (I didn't recognize it, even though I worked about a mile from there, and have a dentist even closer...but it's in a nondescript industrial area I rarely visit.)
I'm guessing that JJ recognized the O? (which is part of the Smithsonian Museum (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden...modern art) near the Mall). Seems like finding images on Google Earth or Google maps is becoming a big passtime. Some place in the east of Alberta made the news recently because it looks like a person wearing headphones. (Yeah, it's a slow news period here, and there are lots of geologists here that I suspect like looking at landforms almost as much as we do.) |
| # Posted 2006-11-19 06:56:35 | |
| furlong47: | >when you pass the time on the toilet by picking little black splinters out of your thighs
When the little bump that has been above your knee for months goes all funky and turns out to be a small abscess with a *thorn* inside of it. Yuck! |
| # Posted 2006-11-19 07:57:19 | |
| jjcote: | Yep, it was the Hirschhorn. |
| # Posted 2006-11-19 22:59:06 | |
| Boojums: | I don't know if it says something about me or not that I immediately recognized one of the buildings (not in Tucson).
And I recognized the Tucson N, which is sort of disturbing. (It's on the U of A campus.) |
| # Posted 2006-11-23 02:53:39 | |
| GrahamE: | When your o-shoes smell like.......well, just about everything!! |
| # Posted 2006-11-23 03:21:14 | |
| evancuster: | 129- When you keep postponing that business trip you have to make across the country until an A meet nearby is going to take place the weekend before your visit. |
| # Posted 2006-11-23 03:29:53 | |
| tomwbil: | You inexplicably find random bits of orange surveyor's tape in your underwear drawer. |
| # Posted 2006-11-23 07:59:06 | |
| Boojums: | Tom, that's never happened to me. I think that's something you need to keep to yourself. |
| # Posted 2006-11-23 15:54:50 | |
| Adam: | >>When your o-shoes smell like.......well, just about everything!!
When you have O-shoes. |
| # Posted 2006-11-23 22:20:14 | |
| div: | 130 - you have o-shoes
131 - you know what it is "o-shoes" |
| # Posted 2006-11-24 02:13:41 | |
| jjcote: | I just went out to the garage and counted -- there seem to be eight pairs, in varying levels of serviceability. |
| # Posted 2006-11-24 21:05:54 | |
| Sergey: | 132) When you keep one o-shoe left from a pair but still "good" in hope to find matching one in future.
133) When your racing o-shoes last at most one season. They would last even less if not to smart duct tape usage. |
| # Posted 2006-11-25 05:26:56 | |
| JimBaker: | I expect to be down to eight pair, after filtering stuff out before the move.
Duct taping of shoes is one O skill I need to improve...mine always falls off quickly in the first race. Maybe I should heat it to get it to stick better. |
| # Posted 2006-11-28 05:19:37 | |
| furlong47: | 134) When you have more purple and red ink pens/markers in your desk for drawing courses, than you do black or blue ones |
| # Posted 2006-11-28 05:36:25 | |
| vmeyer: | Try Gorilla Tape - the "toughest" tape. I taped my foot with it one time, and I couldn't cut if off afterwards. Well, I did eventually, but it wasn't easy... |
| # Posted 2006-11-29 00:25:49 | |
| BorisGr: | Why were you trying to cut off your foot? |
| # Posted 2006-11-29 05:44:41 | |
| vmeyer: | Because I taped it on backwards? |
| # Posted 2006-11-29 07:37:05 | |
| DRoss: | 135 When you have an orienteering thingy dangling from your rear view mirror.
136 When you hide old orienteering magazines so that your spouse doesn't toss them out 137 When you feel like a professional journalist when you write a small article for your local orienteering newsletter 138 When most of the everyday mugs or glasses in your cupboard are prizes from orienteering events |
| # Posted 2006-11-29 08:02:54 | |
| fossil: | When you have an orienteering thingy dangling from your rear view mirror.
My wife does this in her car. One time a friend asked me "What's that thing? Part of a cult or something?" I started thinking about how to answer and finally just said "Yeah, something like that." |
| # Posted 2006-11-29 17:57:09 | |
| Maryann: | I told a friend it was a secret sign so "we" could recognize each other as we're trying to blend into the general population on weekdays. |
| # Posted 2006-12-30 04:25:18 | |
| cedarcreek: | 139) ...when you've tried playing Catching Features on a laptop mounted to the the console of a treadmill, and succeeded. And then you worried that you'd get sweat on the keyboard, and stopped. |