Our first Legend of the Week for semester two is Stan!! He cooked us some delicious pasta last week, as well as organising the sponsors for Big Weekend.
Name: Stan Heap
Course: 4th year Mechanical Engineering
Where are you from: West Hoathly, Sussex
When/how did you start orienteering: our neighbor did it and persuaded us to go when I was a bottom year 14
Pre-race hype song: Avicii – something cheesy
Go to uni meal: soup – I have it for lunch basically every day! (today was leek and potato)
Most memorable race: passed out from hypothermia at the Midlands Champs 2016, lay down in the heather in the snow and I have no memory of running the 2k back to the finish
Best orienteering achievement: joining EUOC!! Winning m16 JK Sprint and Long 2017
Dream sponsor: Waitrose for free food or EasyJet for the foreign training camps
Coolest place you’ve run: Venice during covid so it wasn’t too busy
Aims for the year: get round the JK in one piece, and start running a bit more
Fave thing about EUOC: lots of nice people – ‘the cheesy one that everyone does’ thumb/baseplate compass: neither, I lent it to someone and never got it back 😔 would be thumb though
Fave EUOC social: Beerienteering, a classic, nice to see all the other clubs there too
Sprint or forest: forest
Go to karaoke song: Patience or Shine, both by Take That
Biggest rival: David Bunn growing up, now it’s Tommy Heap (sibling rivalry eek)
Idol: my Dad, he’s done lots of cool stuff in his life
Obsession: chickens (ask him for a fun fact!!)