Archive for December, 2006

Top 10

Monday, December 25th, 2006

Okansas is doing a Top 10.
Here’s my Top 10 Areas I ran on in 2006:
10. Hindleap Warren (enjoyable, felt good.)
9. South Ashdown Forest (satisfying battle against the weather.)
8. Hatfield Forest (a breakthrough race for me.)
7. Ilkley Moor - JK Day 1 (moorland but intricate.)
6. Druskininkai - JWOC Spectator Races Day 5 (so fast but so [...]

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Ashtead and Epsom Commons MV District Event, 17 December

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

Brown Course, 9.22k/105m, 70:13, 7.6mpk, 8th/28 finishers.

My writeup.
My GPS route (see monster mistake on leg 2-3.)

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Equipment

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

Here’s how I’m getting GPS tracks for my recent orienteering races.
I’m using a Navi GPS (£80) bought from Storage Depot, with an SD memory card (£15) to log the route.
I download the data as NMEA sentences via a memory card reader and then convert it to GPX with GPS Babel, and then upload it to RouteGadget. [...]

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Hindleap Warren SAX Regional Event, 3 December

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

M21S (Course 3), 7.4k/215m, 58:13, 7.9mpk, 3rd/58 C3 finishers.

My writeup.
My GPS route. (Is this a UK first for GPS+RG?)
Pictures of some of my errors.
My previous race at Hindleap in 2004.

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GPS Tracks and Orienteering Mistakes

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

I took my GPS on today’s orienteering event, and again it performed generally well.
I’ll write more about the event soon, but for now, here are the “signatures” of three of my mistakes today, as captured by GPS and shown on Google Earth (in an area with low resolution satellite imagery, which is why you can’t [...]

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