Yep Sport

WTF?

Saturday, October 29th, 2005

From some random blog:
http://www.oobrien.com/yepsport/ - Wait — getting to your desired destination with a map and compass is a sport??? Obvious Joke: No girlfriend I’ve ever had could possibly compete. New sport: Calculating and paying a gratuity of at least 18% while armed with a calculator and “The Tipper.”
Indeed, it is a sport, as is [...]

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Commute

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

Home Commute
At around 10pm
18C, calm & dry conditions.
2.10 miles
9 mins 14 seconds (moving time, i.e. not including time at traffic lights.)
Max: 19.6 mph
Average: 13.8 mph
Elevation: 30m
Ken says:
15 mins by bike, using a wacky route.
21 mins by bus (assuming it’s there when I start.)
31 mins by tube (changing once.)
35 mins to walk (I would take 32.)
My [...]

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Micro-O at SLOW’s OK Nuts Trophy

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

SLOW is going to have a Micro-O section at the OK Nuts Trophy regional event at the end of November, on the middle part of the open courses. Interesting - I might “run up” at this event to try it out. Micro-O is a bit like timed Trail-O - it’s about picking the right control [...]

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Furthest from the coast

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

The point in Great Britain furthest from the coast is “just east of Church Flatts Farm, about a mile south-east of Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire” according to the Ordnance Survey in a snippet in this old BBC news article. (Update - featured in a later BBC news article here, and confirmed by the OS [...]

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Stress and Orienteering

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Here is the summary of the previous season.
One of my fellow orienteers in JOK advanced the theory that the stress of work affects my results adversely. Case in point - after a week’s holiday, I got my best results of the season during the Scottish 6 Day. On the other hand, I generally perform badly [...]

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x-England Part 6

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

I completed the east-most section of my cross-England bike ride on Sunday, going from Rochester to Whitstable, a major seaside resort in North Kent, on a beautifully sunny day for October. It was one of the longer days - 45 miles - but, as you would expect for the Thames/Medway, it was exceedingly flat.
I [...]

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Lesnes Abbey Woods and Bostall Heath DFOK District Event, 2 October

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

This was an interesting area - true “inner city” woodland, with several burnt out cars, wrecked motorbikes and event a burnt-out van at various points on the course. The area itself was suprisingly hilly too - 260m for a 5.9km course in SE England is pretty impressive - more so as this is inner city [...]

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