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How Does Orienteering Works?

Orienteering is an all year round sport. It involves a map, controls and the following skills; sprinting, reading a map, patience and thinking. Orienteering can give you future skills in life.

In Orienteering your best friend is your map. It shows where your controls are and where to go. On your map you will find a legend that shows you what different things on your map mean. To get to your destination you have to orientate your map to something that stands out wherever you are. To make sure you have the right control, on your map there will be the following; the number of your control, a short description of where the control will be and a colored line in the direction you need to run in.

Whilst competing in orienteering you need to run hard between controls but also have patience. Once you reach your control, check it, clip it, orientate your map and go. If ever you may get lost stop, look at your map and find your control. A control looks like a peg. On top it has a stamp with sharp points to clip through your paper. This shows you have visited this control.

Orienteering can give you valuable skills in future life. For example; if you ever are hiking in a bush, you will be able to look at the site map and know where to go. If you're driving and get lost you will be able to read the road map and know where to go and how to orientate it. It also an make you stay fit.

Orienteering is a fun, exciting sport that involves running hard and being able to read a map. Always remember to orientate your map, keep calm, do your best but overall... have fun!

By Jansje, Lucy, Kaitlyn and Gemma