Archive for November, 2005

Esher Commons SLOW Regional Event, 27 November

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

This is the annual “OK Nuts” Trophy event organised by SLOW, my home club, with the planner and organiser both JOKers (i.e. from JOK, my second club.) So I had no excuse not to turn up. Plus it was inside the M25 and was London’s finest area that I had never been to - I [...]

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Epping Forest North CHIG District Event, 20 November

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

A new (for me) area in the always lovely Epping Forest, and the start right beside a London Underground station meaning I could get a lie in and do a morning race. The weather was crisp and sunny, but incredibly cold, with some frost on the ground - ideal for orienteering as long as you [...]

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Types of Mistakes

Monday, November 21st, 2005

As you’ve probably noticed from the last two event entries, I’ve started to list categorise the mistakes I make during each race, in the hope that I can identify and work on the worst ones. I’ll endeavor to keep the “poor mapping” excuse to a minimum - bad workmen like to blame their tools, so [...]

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Snap

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

It’s incredibly cold at the moment - sub-zero in London. This might have been a contributory factor to my bike was playing up on the way home from work yesterday - the chain fell off about ten times, and then snapped spectacularly. So now I’m left with a useless bike (not that it was particularly [...]

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Kyloe Weekend II: Kyloe NATO National Event, 13 November

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

After not that many hours of sleep on a Real Working Farm(tm) on the Saturday night - after the JOK AGM, we were up bright and early on a piercing cold day for the National Race (and VHI Individuals) on the Sunday. The temperature gauge was barely above zero at the Assembly area, but it [...]

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Kyloe Weekend I: Greensheen & Cockenheugh NATO Middle Distance Race, 12 November

Monday, November 14th, 2005

I got an early morning train up to Berwick-upon-Tweed on Saturday, for a middle distance race in the afternoon (the Veteran Home International Relays were in the morning) at Greensheen & Cockenheugh - just south of the Kyloe Hills. The race just happened to be the JOK Club Championships 2005 too, my handicap for this [...]

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Update

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

I subscribed to Orienteering Today, via their website. I’ll have Issues 3 onwards hitting my mailbox soon, and Issue 1 is available as that PDF - hopefully issue 2 will go up on the website too! Again, as I mentioned before, I really like the production on this magazine - it makes all the difference.
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“Orienteering Today” Issue 1 Available Online

Friday, November 4th, 2005

From a posting on the NopeSport forum - issue 01/2005 of Orienteering Today magazine can be downloaded as a PDF (watch out, 81mb file size!) The production quality of the Czech-based, English-written magazine is excellent - I’m going to subscribe as soon as I can get along to a major event which CompassPoint (the UK [...]

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