Archive for July, 2007

Open Street Map

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

I fixed my GPS yesterday, and finally got around to installing the mounting kit for my bike. As I’d missed my morning 5K time trial race, I thought I would finally get out on my bike and map the streets around where i live, for Open Street Map. This project is aiming to build a [...]

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Race 15: Great City Race

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

After the recent successful 10K races I’ve been running (Victoria Park, Reigate Priory and best of all the Great Capital Run) I was looking forward to this 5K race, on a closed course through the streets of the City of London.
Unfortunately this was not a great race at all - there was something missing [...]

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Race 14: Wimbledon Common Mobile-O

Friday, July 20th, 2007

SLOW put on something a bit different over the summer months, when the south London vegetation is too tall for any serious orienteering. In a couple of week’s there’s Clued-O, and a few days ago there was the very first UK Mobile-O!
This consisted of teaming up in a pair. One person sat at the [...]

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Hot Hot Hot

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

I hope it cools down in Slovenia sometime before I get there a week from now. It’s going to be tough racing in these kinds of temperatures:

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Race 13: Great Capital Run 10K

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

BUPA Great Capital Run - run by the same organisation that does the Great North Run, this new race was 10K around Hyde Park. Just one lap, although the course doubled back for quite a lot of its length, with (generally slower) runners coming the other way.
I have nothing but praise for this event. Seeded [...]

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Race 12: 150th Bushy Park Time Trial

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

It was good to be back at the BPTT, after missing it in the last weeks thanks to the inclement weather and a broken down train. Also, Paul N showed up so I had someone of similar ability I knew who I could pace against. In the end, he did prove very valuable to tag. [...]

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Race 11: Reigate Priory 10K

Friday, July 13th, 2007

I was orienteering around Reigate Priory only a week ago, and liked the look of the area, so I was happy to be back for my second 10K in four days. This one was a run around country roads, it was billed as being quite undulating, so I wasn’t expecting to beat my 42:09 PB [...]

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Race 10: Victoria Park 10K

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Race 10 was to have been the Bushy Park Time Trial on Saturday, but my train out to Teddington broke down on the platform. So, Plan B, a training jog around Victoria Park, was executed. Later on my housemate mentioned she was running a 3K fun run around the park the following day, and on [...]

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Race 9: Reigate Priory Map Memory

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

The ninth race in my pre-tour prep, down near Reigate. I arrived in the town in a torrential downpour, it was hailing and the hail was coming down so forcefully it was bouncing right back up in the air! However it stopped just before I set off on my course, which was a map memory [...]

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1000km

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

I passed the 1000km mark on my bike today, 77 days after buying it. The figure is based on my cycle computer’s odometer which I don’t always have clipped in, so I’ve probably gone a bit further than that. I was pretty pleased to be averaging 13km a day, until I realized my basic weekday [...]

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