Archive for May, 2008

Trail Challenge

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Last Tuesday was the first Trail Challenge of 2008, organised by SLOW, in Bushy Park, one of London’s Royal Parks. I volunteered to be course planner, to get some planning and organisational experience ahead of a couple of races I will hopefully be putting on later this year. This meant I didn’t get to run, [...]

London to Brighton

Friday, May 16th, 2008

My housemate, who has only recently taken up cycling, cycled from London to Brighton on Sunday. Can’t be having that! So, I set off on Wednesday afternoon, quite late in the day, from home, with the aim of hopefully getting to Brighton, or at least a long way out of London, by sunset.
I did [...]

Brill

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

This Tuesday, I headed off to Oxford for an informal evening event put on by TVOC at Brill village. The event is held every year, and I’ve been quite a few times in the last few years. Unfortunately Brill is not an easy village to get to - long ago, the London Underground used to [...]

Spring

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Oops, I forgot that my Twitter account posted all my updates on this blog - hence all the recent posts aren’t very substantive.
Just a quick update on the City of London orienteering map work. Here’s the progress so far:
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The grey areas are the remaining bits, I’m hoping to get them done in June. [...]

Heading down to Bushy Park to …

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Heading down to Bushy Park to do the final planning for the Trail Challenge race on Tuesday week. Hopefully the warm sunshine will last.

Delighted to have discovered O…

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Delighted to have discovered Oliver’s Light Ale last night during a tap crawl in Coniston’s Black Bull pub. Should have bought back a keg.