Archive for November, 2006

Epping Forest North CHIG District Event, 19 November

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Brown
(8.29km/105m)
57:23, 6.9mpk
1st/54 finishers.
Writeup / Results
Nice to win an event again! Also the first outing in my brand new SLOW top - a good omen? OUOC were out in force, mostly running Brown too, including the girls, so plenty of opportunity for comparison.
I ran with a GPS logger to record my route, see my article below [...]

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Shorne Woods DFOK District Event, 12 November

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Brown
(7.6k/130m)
52:30, 6.9mpk
3rd/26 finishers.
Writeup / Results
Pleased to have finished 3rd at this race. I was caught up by the person who finished second, about half way round. I took a different route to lose him and he got ahead, but I caught up at the very end. An interesting course, with some long cross-country legs followed [...]

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November Classic - Wood Crates SN Regional Event, 5 November

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

M21L
(12.2k/300m)
103:37, 8.5mpk
31st/38 finishers.
Writeup / Results
I was really aching from the Oxford City Race the previous day, which had really hurt my quads (running in O-shoes on tarmac for 10km, not a great idea) - or maybe it was just the hangover from the JOK Annual Dinner. Either way, this was not a good race for [...]

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Oxford City Race, 4 November

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Open
(6.29k)
47:57, 7.6mpk
25th/82 finishers.
Writeup / Results
It was great to finally run in the Oxford City Race, years after it was originally conceived. It was a novelty to be sprinting down the middle of the streets and past historic buildings. I even deliberately went through The Turf pub - because I could! I defintely had a home [...]

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GPS Logging at Epping Forest North

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

At the Epping North event last Sunday, I ran with a GPS logging unit, for the first time. It logs my position every second, assuming it has a fix on at least four satellites. l Considering the device is not very sensitive, and I was wearing it at waist height, I am quite pleased with [...]

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