Archive for January, 2006

Running Routes

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Here’s some of my favourite trail runs I’ve done or would like to do shortly.
Epping Forest 18km - Covered by four orienteering maps.
Gorhambury 15km - From Iain’s house in St Alban’s.
Port Meadow 12km - My “standard” long circuit while at Oxford.

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First (Real) Orienteering Podcast?

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Mat Dickinson has now posted a couple of short podcasts at OS Now, which I guess makes him the world’s first second orienteer podcasting about the sport. Nice one! Now all he needs is a decent jingle at the beginning
[Update - Sero mentions in the comments that Orienteering Orange has been podcasting [...]

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Cold Ash BKO National Event, 29th Jan

Monday, January 30th, 2006

(Cross posted from Attackpoint. See also my leg by leg analysis, mistake and speed analysis, and the other M21L splits from APers. Wow, does AP do stats or what!)
Oh, blimey. What went right on this race? Not a lot. I better start with the positives - lovely crisp weather, technical and enjoyable area, and my [...]

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GMap Pedometer

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

After a long run on Sunday I did some post-run analysis, and found an excellent site, GMap-Pedometer, that harnesses the power of Google Maps and also USGS altitude information. Basically, you click on the map to draw a trail showing where you went, and it adds up the distance, throwing in mile/km markers and other [...]

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Missing Ingredient

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

I do like the look of the new “Ski Weather” dashboard widget that came with the Mac OS X 10.4.4 upgrade released last week. And yes, it does cover the Scottish ski resorts too.
Of course, this being the Scottish ski scene, there isn’t actually any snow yet…

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Tilgate Forest SO District Event, 15 Jan

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Cross posted from Attackpoint
Overcast, but not too cold today. This should have been an area I did well on - reasonably technical and flat - but I made too many mistakes, and also cramped up. The area was full of paths and differing vegetation - in fact it was quite difficult to read the map [...]

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New Map Books

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

I received a couple of excellent cartography-themed books this Christmas:
Mapping Hacks (referral) is an O’Reilly book and is right up my street - I had it high on my wish list. Although unfortunately it was published just before the Google Maps API was made available and everyone when Google Maps Mashup crazy, it nevertheless contains [...]

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The Future of the Fixtures List for UK Orienteering

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Interesting discussion (page 2) on NopeSport - disclaimer: I’ve contributed to the discussion - at the moment about the fixtures list for UK orienteering, and a general desire for it to be more comprehensive and incorporating more Web 2.0 functionality (e.g. RSS, Google Map API with maybe a bit of AJAX, Location-based service.) I’m [...]

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Attackpoint Makeover

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

Attackpoint, the best training/logging website for orienteers in the world, as had a makeover. I like.
Attackpoint needs more UK orienteers on it, logging their training*/races - it’s the kind of site that works best when many similar people are on it. With more UK orienteers, there would be more UK events posted on the website, [...]

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Eridge Old Park SAX Regional Event, 8 Jan

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

Eridge Park is a rather nice, grand old county estate in East Sussex, comprising a large central deer park (fast, featureless, open) surrounded by several areas of complex, quite steep woodland. Or, at least, it would have been rather nice if it hadn’t rained continously throughout the course. I ran M21S, mainly because the 11.7km [...]

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