Orienteering: Burge wins class in Edinburgh (From The Westmorland Gazette)
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Orienteering: Burge wins class in Edinburgh
2:00pm Thursday 2nd February 2012 in Sport
LAKELAND OC’s Judy Burge started the 2012 urban orienteering programme with a class win at the Edinburgh City Race.
The new year introduced her to the W55 class – which defined her as a superveteran for urban racing - and she took just 34 minutes to complete the 3.2km course.
The course ran from the Edinburgh University campus around George Square, into the narrow alleyways off the Royal Mile, contrasting with the hilly and tricky Dumbiedykes estate, parkland by Arthur’s Seat and a sprint around Pollock Halls of Residence to finish.
The race was the first counter in a series of fourteen urban events through England and Scotland during the year. One of these will be in Kendal on the May Day Bank Holiday Monday.
Urban orienteering is becoming a popular form of the sport which normally tests navigation at speed through complex countryside such as forests. However navigating through old town and city centres proves to be just as challenging.
* Tony Richardson (M65) was awarded the Fast Cat Trophy at the Lakeland club’s championships at Great Tower Wood as the oldest club member to achieve National Championship Standard, who hadn’t been awarded the trophy in a previous year.
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