O-ringen Day -1

Just outside of Halmstad is the heart of O-ringen, O-ringen city. The city consists of tents, cars and camper vans and a "town square" filled with sport shops, food places, massage tables, results boards and heathem ore. The biggest events in Australia bring about 900 people, O-ringen has about 15'000 people. So you could understand that we were just a little overwhelmed when we got here.






Once we got our bibs we went to find our tent area, which if that was a reflection on how we are going to orienteer for the rest of the week I don't even want to think about it. We spent 30 minutes looking in an area but it turns out that we were the lot over.... Not happy Jan!

The next morning we had two different practice maps so we could see what the terrains were like. The first map was in the forest around O-ringen city.The second map was only half an hours drive away and the terrains were amazingly different. One was a thin, typical European forest and the other was a thick, bushy beach side suburb. From what we've done today we are keener then ever for O-ringen.



Jake

Location:O-rigen City 2012