Straggler on podium at NAOM

Lyn West on podium at NAOM

Lyn West on podium at NAOM
Photographer: Colin West

Posted: Wed 23 Feb 2022

Lyn West 3rd in W65 at North Alentejo Orienteering Meet

While Essex was being battered by Storm Eunice, Colin and Lyn West travelled to Portugal to run in the NAOM. The event consisted of two middle distance forest stages and an urban sprint. The terrain is beautiful cork oak wood and olive groves with rock and contour detail in the area around Castillo de Vide, close to the Spanish border. Lyn made an enormous error on the first control on Saturday morning but fortunately so did most of the other competitors resulting in 3rd place in the stage.

Saturday afternoon had an urban sprint around the hilltop town of Marvao with steep narrow cobbled streets and a castle. Lyn had a cleaner run finishing 2nd and going into 2nd place overnight. Sadly a couple of big errors in the complex terrain on Sunday meant she could only manage 5th place but still 3rd overall. A place on the podium, a medal and a bag of local produce.