Orienteering

If you love being outdoors, active, visiting places you’ve never been before, then orienteering is the sport for you. Orienteering is quite unique in that people of all ages and abilities can take part at the one event at the one time - from a toddler to an octogenarian and everything in between. It’s a sport for all ages. It’s also up to you if you want to walk, jog or run. You set your own targets and compete against the elites at top speeds on complex courses or take a gentle jog around the mapped

area on a simpler route! The beauty is, this can all be done at the one event.

But what is Orienteering? Well it’s a worldwide sport where the competitor uses a special, detailed map of an area on which a number of controls or checkpoints are marked. The competitor decides on a route to reach these specific points or controls, in order, as quickly as possible. The controls are marked by orange and white flags and there are markers at each location that allows the course organiser to know you have visited the correct control in the right sequence.