This Sunday we enjoyed a trip to the gorgeous Woodstock Gardens, where Waterford Orienteers (our coach Andrew) planned a course, organized by our Captain Jana. While a large group of us met up in Trinity early on Sunday to take a private party bus down south, coach Andrew, captain Jana and webmaster Julien set up the course and download tent. Despite some confusion eventually our driver from Cork was found and the bus got going.
It was a busy event with not just our runners but lots of small little humans running around. When the bus arrived a brief instruction was given to our beginners and then off they went, all together into the stunning forest and gardens. Being out 'real' orienteering for the first time, it was quite challenging at times, but everyone did a marvelous job! Especially considering there was serious time pressure, because at 1pm the Irish rugby team was going to play their quarterfinal against Argentina.
As soon as everyone finished (WHOOO WELL DONE!) we hopped on the bus straight to a pub in inistioge where we were going to watch the rugby together with the locals. Unfortunately our orienteering adventure was far more successful than the rugby and somewhat sad we left after the match back to Dublin.
Thank you all for coming, we hope you had a great time and look forward to seeing you at our next events! Results can be found here, scroll down to 'medium'.
It was a busy event with not just our runners but lots of small little humans running around. When the bus arrived a brief instruction was given to our beginners and then off they went, all together into the stunning forest and gardens. Being out 'real' orienteering for the first time, it was quite challenging at times, but everyone did a marvelous job! Especially considering there was serious time pressure, because at 1pm the Irish rugby team was going to play their quarterfinal against Argentina.
As soon as everyone finished (WHOOO WELL DONE!) we hopped on the bus straight to a pub in inistioge where we were going to watch the rugby together with the locals. Unfortunately our orienteering adventure was far more successful than the rugby and somewhat sad we left after the match back to Dublin.
Thank you all for coming, we hope you had a great time and look forward to seeing you at our next events! Results can be found here, scroll down to 'medium'.