How does orienteering work?

Orienteering is an famous all season sport that includes: a map, codes, time and speed. In this particular sport you need to use your brain but most importantly you will need to know the skills of orientating the map.

First of all orienteering includes a map and codes. Orientating the map is the most important thing you need to do in orienteering. The aim is to orientate the map so take your time, the map is your best friend. The map has some numbers printed on them, those numbers start from one and so on depending on how many codes there are. You must follow those numbers because they where your codes are but also keep in mind that you can take short cuts to save time when needed. On the bottom side of the map there are keys, those keys describe everything there is on the map which means that those keys help you in case you get lost. Another important skill in orienteering is speed.

In addition to orienteering you need to develop your skill of speed. At the end of the race you get a certain time, that is important in this sport. At the start of the race every second person takes off 30sec and than the third person would take off 1min and so on adding 30sec. If you get some codes wrong you will need to add on time, the maximum of codes you can get wrong is 3 and no more than that. The person with the fastest time goes to the Auckland champs where you compete other orienteerers.

Nevertheless orienteering is a fun, energetic all season sport that includes these following skills and if your good enough you could even go to the Auckland champs and compete other students. That is how the fun sport orienteering works.