School Cross Country

A soaking wet morning in The Walks saw Sam taking part in his school intger-house cross country. Despite the teachers' efforts to make sports day sanitised and uncompetitive, they can't stop the cross country race being a....well...a race.

And they were OFF!

Sam finished in a rather good seventh place, considering that his race included the year above his own as well. That result meant that Sam was picked to represent the school at the King's Lynn championship, to be run at Lynnsport. Well done young man!

Orienteering In The Park

I'd been looking around for a suitable orienteering race for us to take part in for quite a while - so to hear that there was one happening in The Walks was very cool, if not a little spooky. So off we went.



Sam likes maps, and is becoming quite good at using a road atlas. A sport that combines maps with charging round the great outdoors has got to be a winner. Norfolk Orienteering Club organised a "Try Orienteering" event that sounded just the job.

We chose to do an "orange" course, which is very easy but a decent length, and Sam loved the whole thing. We found 20 of the 21 map references (known as controls), and the 21st had been stolen from its tree, and although worn out by the end, the little star had a great time and has asked when we're going orienteering again.

Sam finished fourth on the Orange course in a time of 33:52.

You can find the full results here: Walks-Result

And Norfolk Orienterring Club live here: Norfolk_Orienteers