Summery of article in Billed Bladet #18, 2012.
Tour de Christian.
Written by our man in the woods Ulrik Ulriksen.
As you know Frederik was to put focus on the Find the way initiative aiming at getting people and noy least children out in the nature to get some excersize and fresh air.
As such you can can find and print a number of routes of differing degrees of lengths and difficulty and run your very own orienteering runs at your own time.
It was however a surprise that Frederik showed up with two of his children. It was apparantly planned that he would bring Christian along but in the very last moment Bella asked (*) if she could come as well.
Okay, Frederik was to start the junior run (about 1½ kilometre or so) by cutting a ribbon. He handed over the scissors to Christian who with a bit of concentration managed the job fine.
Finally! Time to run. The pace was fairly laid back initially but that was way too slow for Christian so he darted ahead and had to wait for dad and Bella to catch up at the first post.
After a brief instruction in how to clip your card it was off again. Christian took the lead again. - Way ahead. And just before the finishing line Frederik had to call out: "Christian, wait a moment. You need to have the card in your hand, when you cross the finishing line. Come back". Okay... That triviality taken care off Christian darted over the finishing line, determined to be the first.
Having completed the run it was time for a mini carton of cocoa. Isabella who was pretty worn out had a few problems with the straw. (**) A proud Frederik said: "Well done, kids". (***)
A passing women asked: "Was it difficult to find the way out in the forest, Christian"? Christian replied: "No, not particularly".
Frederik was pretty pleased with the initiative: "This thing about orienteering enables you to better motivate the young to run. It's almost a kind of treasure hunt for the children. This Find the Way in Denmark is a good initiative. A good way way increase the numbers of orienteering runs and excersize for everyone in general".
He added: "I can only say positive things about the run. Orienteering makes it more fun to excersize. Prince Christian also thought it was fun. We already started to talk about this morning at home. We then went on the Net and I explained a bit to him about orienteering. And when we had started, he was ready for us to go out and experience something. So it was just go for both of us. It was fun for me to watch. I also think it went really well for us out on the route. It was easy (****) and good for children and adults. It was the first orienteering for the children and I think they managed the run really well. Both Christian and Isabella".
(*) Read: Insisted = plagued.
(**) There are some charming pics of Bella fumbling in the article, so look out for the online version.
(***) Actually the expression he used is a bit old fashioned. Substitute with a similar expression in your own language.
(****) No wonder! Frederik has run countless and much, much more difficult orienteering runs in the military.