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Urban Orienteering

I’ve been doing a few street orienteering races around London recently. These are generally in the evening, when it’s dark, but I don’t need to geek out with a head torch as street lighting is normally sufficient to be able to read the map. The races are score races - you choose your own route [...]

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Grumbly after having to wait a…

Grumbly after having to wait an hour to leave Stansted Airport. Orienteering in Venice was exhilerating though.

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Ascent Analysis

Here’s an analysis, in Ascent, of my orienteering today, at the November Classic in the New Forest. See my Attackpoint training details for the race analysis. Click for the full-size version.

The blue line is my altitude. This is pretty inaccurate due to GPS calculations of altitude being inherently flawed. For example, I’m pretty sure I [...]

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Annoyed that the train to the …

Annoyed that the train to the New Forest is going to take 2h30, but looking forward to wild boars.

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Open Street Map: National Cycle Network Project

One project I’m contributing to is the Open Street Map. Gradually I’ve been adding detail around my local area - the East End of London. I’ve just bought a Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS receiver, to replace the one I lost a few weeks ago while out on a race. The Garmin will certainly be very [...]

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