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Burnham Beeches and Egypt Woods Regional Event, 19th Feb

(Cross posted from Attackpoint. See also my leg by leg analysis and mistake and speed analysis.)
Burnham Beeches is one of my favourite areas - but it was a shame the weather wasn’t great, a gloomy overcast day, with rain for the second half. The map had a new section at the top, which most courses [...]

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And Now for Something Completely Different

New toy arrived yesterday, after an epic eight day journey via Shanghai, Amsterdam, Arnham and… Northampton. New iMac, powered by an Intel Core Duo chip.
Comments after 6 hours:

Really nice big, bright screen.

Really thin case, considering the whole computer is behind the screen.

Really quiet (even quieter than expected.) This is really important in my small flat.

The [...]

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South Ashdown MV Regional Event, 12 Feb

(Cross posted from Attackpoint. See also my leg by leg analysis and mistake and speed analysis.)
I was expecting a forested course today, as it’s in Ashdown Forest, but the course was almost entirely on grassy and heathery moorland, with various tank tracks providing fast routes. The area was cold, raining and misty when I arrived, [...]

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Fixtures Map Update

I’ve updated the Fixtures Map code with a couple of new features:

Ability to exclude events more than 100 miles from you, except nationals/internationals. This is set from the page where you choose your postcode.
“Alert” reporting feature - if you spot a mistake in the listing, click on the “Alert” link for the event concerned, mark [...]

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Godshill, Turf Hill & Millersford WIM Regional Event, 5th Feb

(Cross posted from Attackpoint. See also my leg by leg analysis and mistake and speed analysis.)
This was a part of the New Forest I haven’t run in before. Got a lift from Southampton (where I was out the night before) - many thanks to distracted and OUOC. Arrived very hungover and sleep-deprived and having only [...]

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Another UK Events DB

I somehow missed Rob Williams’ excellent Orienteering Fixtures webpage, which has been online for several months and is a very similar concept to my own page. It has a number of features that my own fixtures webpage doesn’t yet have, such as an RSS feed, pesistent storage of a person’s location, and the ability [...]

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Maps of Maps 3: Database of UK Orienteering Events

Following the Map of Maps 1 and 2 projects, I’ve been working on an unofficial, location aware database of UK orienteering maps. It is based on the official UK list, for which I have a script which grabs and parses 90% of the events there (it has trouble with the multi-day and really big events, [...]

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