The ramblings of Lynne Walker,
an orienteering coach (amongst many other things)
Posted by Lynne Walker | Filed under Blog • General
Paul & I have been to the cinema quite a lot in the first three months of 2011.
Posted by Lynne Walker | Filed under Blog • Orienteering
I have driven ‘through’ Erskine more times than I can count; I even spent six weeks on teaching practise in 1990 at the secondary school (Park Main HS) in the town. I never ever knew just what was lying behind the trees or just across the footbridge from the school.
Posted by Lynne Walker | Filed under Blog • Orienteering
April and May 2010 see the main races this year. The JK was at the start of April, followed by the British Middle Distance Championships on 17th April and then the British Individual and Relays over the weekend of 1st and 2nd May. The Scottish Championships are at the end of May.
Posted by Lynne Walker | Filed under Blog • Orienteering
We made the journey down to Devon for the JK and thought that we would spend most of the week after it exploring Dartmoor and the coast. Then we found out that there was the added attraction of a couple of other orienteering events in the area on the Wednesday and Thursday - this was described as the JK dessert.
Posted by Lynne Walker | Filed under Blog • Orienteering
Paul and Lynne were lured by the ‘sunny Devon’ image and travelled down to take part in the annual orienteering festival. A day later than anticipated we arrived at our Dartmoor holiday cottage.
Posted by Lynne Walker | Filed under Blog • Orienteering
I really am not sure whose idea the weekend was, but I basically agreed to co-ordinate it. We advertised the weekend and then . . . the responses came flooding in. I began to panic; where were we all going to stay? Could we possibly coach all these people, all fifty to sixty of them?
Warning – this is a l_o_o_o_o_n_g post!
Posted by Lynne Walker | Filed under Blog • Orienteering
One very pleasant thing about retirement is the ability to pick and choose with regard to the work opportunities offered. Stramash had offered me a couple of the Teaching Orienteering Part 1 (TO P1) courses and the second was on the Isle of Mull.
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It was announced today that this has been the coldest/snowiest winter in Scotland since 1962 to 1963. I remember that one as I didn’t get to school for three weeks; that was the time it took for us to dig ourselves out as we lived a mile off the ‘main road’. The family had recently bought a freezer but by the end of the three weeks the bread had run out and I recall living on tattie scones.
Posted by Lynne Walker | Filed under Blog • Mountains
Monday 1st March 2010, pull back the curtains about 8am and it’s a wall-to-wall-blue-sky-day-with-no-wind. Try saying that without taking breath! We both thought that we must get out on a day like this. What to do? Would probably be walking somewhere, but there was quite a lot of snow above 100m. We did not want to drive too far so we narrowed things down and eventually decided that the hill above Benmore Gardens – A’Chruach – would be the best bet.
I am a level 4 orienteering coach and a qualified Assessor & Coach Educator. I have been orienteering for xx years and have coached on many foreign tours.