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Lambeth Street-O

Here’s my route around Lambeth last night, during the final SLOW Street-O of the series this year. The race was during daylight hours - which was good, as some of the areas around the bottom of the map are not places I would want to be in after dark.
Highlights included the Oxo Tower and the [...]

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More Ascent Goodness

More GPS tracklogs overlaid on high-resolution aerial photographs in Ascent:

1. The Bushy Park Time Trial (5K) route - now going clockwise around the park.

2. A quick (700m) warm-down jog up and down one of the tree-lined terraces in Bushy Park. Notice you can see every tree.

3. Today’s exhausting orienteering race at Woolbeding Common - M21L. [...]

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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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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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Back (Part 2)

Back from the Scottish Six Days, my second week’s orienteering this summer. Now at my parents’ house near Edinburgh, currently planning shows to see at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival over the next three days. To be precise, I’m lazing about while Alex and Nick are doing the planning…
Summary of the Scottish Six Days - great [...]

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Race 16: Nonsuch Park

The sixteenth and last of my preparatory races before the OO Cup and the Scottish 6 Days. This was a “Frolics” race put on by Mole Valley at Nonsuch Park in south-west London - I was running for SLOW and will have hopefully counted for the team for the Frolics trophy.
See my Attackpoint log for [...]

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Race 15: Great City Race

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

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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Race 12: 150th Bushy Park Time Trial

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

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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