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so what is orienteering you never told me lol

orienteering is when you run in the woods with a map and a compass and try to get from check point as fast as possible. and if u have not tried it you are missing out!! it is so much fun!! and u meet a done of people from all over espeshaly if you go to big meets.

yah..my mom picked me up so i never got around to telling u...and that is what it is xcept we dont use compasses...we just know the trails well enough to use the map...but if u didnt know the course then u would really need to use a compass

whoa uve never done orienteering!? wow lol im in love with it!

when u get to harder courses like orange and up ur not on trails so u need a compass. unless that is ur like my friend jason who runs with out one anyway.

and ya i'm totally in love with it to what courses does everyone run?

...we dont really race lol we just do it for training..

oh dude that sounds awesome. jeremy you need to tell me when one of these races is coming up. except I'll prolly just cheat and follow other people. or just wing it and go straight through the woods and beat jeremy to the finish line like I do all the time lol

yah...i dont know of ne races in minnesota...but there r a couple up in the team occasionally do and we never do them off the trail otherwise some of the girls would get lost...*cough christina *cough...ugh i got a really bad cold....lol

im actually ok at orienteering lol its the only thing i can beat christina in thats ski related!

wait hold on you ski when you do this? I thought you were running!

well sometimes we ski, sometimes run...i think ur actually suppsed to run

oh ok

there are all kinds. running, biking, skiing, cannoing, score-o's (where there are a bunch or controls and you can visit them in any order and each is worth a different amount) photo-o's (where u get a photo of the control and u have to find where it is on the map and then go and visit it) and many others but i can't remember them.

and u should totally come out and try it sometime it is so much fun!! there is a junior web site www.thewaterstop.org and u can find out what is going on there.

sweet thanks. and jeremy your gonna have to take me up to canada with you one time so I can beat you in one of these too lol and so I can beat those two other people you were taking about in ping-pong lol

ya jeremy was not hard to beat in trainning time this week normaly he is at the top but not this week. oh well eveyone needs a brake every now and then.

sure jeff i could take u up some time this summer if u wanted i dont think it would be too much of a problem...no joke..and i think that i will be impposible to beat come next week becuase that is when my real training begins and i will average about 7-10 hours a week depending on what i am doing maybe more

and i think that i might get to do a oreinteering race this saturday...i'll tell u guys how i do.

that orienteering thing is on sunday afternoon...well at least thats when it was last year...and hopefully the trails will be a bit drier!

your only doing 7-10 hours? I'll be doing like 30 a week lol but praobabl not and yeah whenever it works for you to bring me up to canada give me a ring (and dial the right number it works better lol)

U guys should train and come to some big meets sometime it would be great to meet you all. ya and my big trainning starts next week when i'm outa school. have to tran for the us champs so that i can win my 4th gold metal. lol

yah i'll be sure to give u a call jeff