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Top orienteers from 48 countries compete in middle distance, long distance and relay, and spectator races will be held during the week as well.

Members from Forth Valley Orienteers were among more than 3000 athletes who descended on the Crieff area for a week at the bi-annual Scottish Six Days Orienteering Festival.

Felix Lunn has been selected to travel to Stockholm in Sweden in mid-August to attend the National Junior Regional Squad annual camp for the most promising orienteers in the 16 and 17 year age groups.

It has been a major undertaking for Solway Orienteers to organise and as well as physical set-up preparations that have been ongoing, some club members have been training hard and competing in neighbouring areas.

On the first day the orienteers competed in individual events, with CLOK's Aidan Rigby claiming a superb second place on the M18 course.

Tell me more Orienteers can participate for fun, fitness or in competitive races.

The event, which will start and end at Palace Green next to Durham Cathedral, will include an orienteering race organised by the Northern Navigators Orienteering Club, along with members of Cleveland Orienteering Klub, Durham University Orienteering Club and Newcastle & Tyneside Orienteers.

The event on May 31, hosted by British Orienteering in conjunction with the North East Orienteering Association, will attract the UK's top orienteers as they aim to become the 2014 British Champion.

Instead of a digital GPS, orienteers use an old-fashioned compass.

Orienteers rely on detailed maps depicting streams, forests, boulders, and other natural obstacles; the maps also show the locations of the 15 or so control sites.

The prevalence of coronary heart disease in the orienteers was only one-third that in the controls, and all-cause mortality was 1.7% in the orienteers and 8.5% in the controls, the Finnish investigators noted (BMJ 1998; 316:1784-5).

Yesterday was a rest day for the week-long event, and many orienteers were spending their time off dabbing lotion on their itchy bites.