Archive for August, 2004

More Map Extracts for the Map of Maps project

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

I’ve added 19 more map extracts to the Map of Maps page. The new extracts are mainly of the areas around Edinburgh and East Lothian, with a few more too in Central Scotland.

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Map of Maps Beta

Thursday, August 26th, 2004

I’ve put online a beta of my “Map of Maps” - an interactive map of orienteering maps in Great Britain. At the moment it contains 120 maps, 40 of which have viewable extracts. This is just a small fraction of the orienteering maps in the country. Soon visitors will be able to add their own [...]

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O-Ringen 2004: Stage 5, Mölndalsetappen (23 Jul)

Sunday, August 15th, 2004

The final day of the O-Ringen, and the second day bathed in glorous sunshine. Unfortuantely I had caught a bad cold the previous night, and was feeling pretty dreadful. I ended up just running the first couple of legs, then going for a nice wander and completing and the latter half of the course, the [...]

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O-Ringen 2004: Stage 4, Torslandaetappen (22 Jul)

Thursday, August 12th, 2004

Day 4 was the sprint race - less than 4km in length, and rumours of the terrain being very different to the previous days’. The fact that the walk to the start from the assembly area (and finish) was over 3km left the JOKers wondering whether the course would be a straight line back to [...]

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O-Ringen 2004: Stage 3, Skatåsetappen (21 Jul)

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

Day 3, and the JOKers had the undeniable luxury of essentially staying at a club hut on the map. Considering that we were on the edge of the city though, we were all suprised at the ruggedness and remoteness of some sections of the map. The dominating features were distinct lines of crags, running directly [...]

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Plan for late 2004

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

A provisional schedule for my orienteering in 2004-5:
5th Sept - SOC District Event & SOC & SCOA Leagues. Farley Mount, Winchester.
12th Sept - LOK District Event. Hampstead Heath, London.
(18th Sept - Moving house.)
25th Sept - DFOK District Event. Lesnes Abbey Wood, SE London.
26th Sept - BKO District Event & SCOA League. Burghfield Common, Nr Mortimer.
3rd [...]

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Unusual first legs

Monday, August 2nd, 2004

One of the pages on Peter Gagarin’s website has some great examples of unusual first legs.

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O-Ringen 2004: Stage 2, Kungälvsetappen (20 Jul)

Sunday, August 1st, 2004

After yesterday’s damp run, the weather was much sunnier today - and indeed I took most of my race photos today. The terrain was wonderfully technical, but not too physical and I had probably the best run of my 5 days, here.
The very beginning of the course was a technical minefield, with the runners [...]

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