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50-50-50

Inspired by a discussion at Attackpoint, I’m going for a modest (i.e. achievable) New Year’s resolution for 2006: 50-50-50.
That is,

50 hours of competitive orienteering.
50 hours of training (probably mainly spinning in the gym.)
50 hours of long-distance bike rides (i.e. >1 hour/day.)

That’s just under an hour a week for each of these. I’ll code a progress [...]

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Personal Orienteering Maps

Michael writes about the perfect Christmas gift for any orienteering-obsessed family - a personalised orienteering map of the house and garden.
With this in mind, I downloaded the Adobe Illustrator CS demo for Mac, the excellent free Map Studio, and some old site plan PDFs from the local council planning department. One quick survey in the [...]

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John Muir Country Park ELO “Festive Frolic” Local Score Event, 27 December

The annual “Festive Frolic” put on by my old club, ELO was this morning. This year, for the first time, it was at the John Muir Country Park (rather than Yellowcraig) and was on a newly updated map - half the map is on a flat plantation, and the other half is on the changing [...]

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European Travels Meme

The countries I’ve visited in Europe (via Alex.)

Create your own one here.
(The Lithuania highlight is slightly cheating, as I haven’t been there yet - but I’ll be there in July 2006 for the JWOC spectator races and JOK tour.)
Scotland - 1980+
England - 1990+
France - 1992, 1993, 2003
Iceland - 1994
Netherlands - 1998
Germany - 1998
Austria - 1998
Italy [...]

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Joydens & Chalk Woods DFOK District Event, 18 December

After last week’s walk to the start and then painful limp home, my sprain seemed to have fixed itself more quickly. So, it was yet another cold crisp morning that found me in yet another South East London forest.
I ran down a course - Blue, so as not to push my luck with the sprain [...]

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Orienteering Podcasts

Plenty of orienteering weblogs out there now, including quite a few UK amateurs ones like YepSport. Blogs are so 2004 though, the current buzzword is of course podcasting. Think weblogs for your ears.
Not many orienteering podcasts yet - searching for “orienteering” in iTunes reveals just two possibilities - Mat Dickinson’s Orienteering Sport Now has one [...]

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The Darkness

It’s suddenly just got much darker, just as I’ve got home from today’s race. Here’s why - a huge black cloud from an oil fire is spreading over London. Amazing satellite picture from the BBC here. It’s getting dark anyway at this time of day (4pm) but it’s like it went from day to night [...]

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Injured…again

Made it to the assembly field of today’s event (Blackheath & Farley Heath, Surrey) but no further - a dash between trains on the way to the event resulted in much ankle pain on my right foot - dull pain when still, fine when walking, instant agony when running. I’ve managed to twist that ankle [...]

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Banstead Heath MV District Event, 4 December

A real cross country area, one glance at the map was enough to confirm the pace was fast. In the end, I didn’t really force myself to go as fast as I should have - but the map did have enough technical sections for proper orienteering. One particularly technical section, in a mine-field of pits, [...]

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Official: Men are the Better Map Readers

The results for the Micro-O section of the Esher Commons orienteering event finally provide a definitive, unbiased answer to the age old question.
Out of the 91 men completing the MicroO course, 24 (26%) made no mistakes. But out of the 28 women competing, only 2 (7%) had a clean sheet.
The statistics speak for themselves… [...]

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