Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Monday, May 15, 2006 New glasses Orienteering isn't much of an equipment sport (especially compared to, say, cycling). I wonder if that hurts the chances of the sport to get sponsors. It might. Looking at photos from the just finished European Champs, I was struck by how sun glasses seem to have become the fashionable new equipment. The snapshot above is of the Norwegian team in their shades (photo lifted from Oystein Kvaal Osterbo's page). While I wrote that shades have become the "fashionable new equipment," I actually think orienteering in sunglasses is useful. I've been wearing glasses to protect my eyes for two or three years. I don't wear them if it is raining because the rain makes it too hard to read the map. But, I feel much more comfortable running through the forest with something protecting my eyes. A long time ago, I took a thorn in the eyeball and had to have the bits of thorn removed by an opthamologist. But, that wasn't enough to get me to wear glasses. Then a couple of years ago I went through a series of races where I took a stick in the eye (never causing any problems, but still). I decided to give glasses a try. I'm sold on them now. To get a very rough idea of how many top orienteers race in glasses, I picked (more or less at random) one runner for each of the 31 countries at the European Champs, looked at the runner photos at the European Champs web page, and counted how many raced in glasses. 20 ran without glasses, 7 ran with glasses, and for 4 countries I couldn't tell from the photos. Clearly, I have too much time on my hands. posted by Michael | 7:47 PM 
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