Introduction to Laser Run

Yesterday, a local friend here in George gave a bunch of us an introduction to the sport of Laser Run. Otto has wanted to share his sport with our group of friends for months. His son recently competed in the Biathle World Champs in Bali so we've got some pedigree here. 

Laser Run is a sport of running and shooting (laser gun) and it falls under Modern Pentathlon.

In events, you start with shooting. The target is a 17cm square with a circle in the middle (approx 60mm diameter) that you must hit. At the top of the target are 5 LED lights. They start off red and each time you hit the target a light goes green. In each shooting series, you must have five successful hits within 50 seconds. You stand 10m from the target and must shoot single handed. 

Otto in the blue tee

Then you run (600m) - on trail. Then shoot, then run over and over. You do rounds so that you end up with 5 x runs and 4 x shooting series. The first person across the line wins. Shooting gets harder as you progress because you get more tired and out of breath so it takes more effort to get your breath under control to shoot accurately.

It turns out that I have a pretty steady hand. There is a club in George and I look forward to giving some events a shot next year.