Today was my club’s annual Boxing Day mass start score event. The format is one hour score with a few bonus controls (Father Christmas, a fairy, and a Christmas Tree). A few photos from the event are here. Entry was slightly up on last year, as it has been for the last few years. I [...]
My research group runs two MSc courses in the area of network and collaborative computing. One of these includes the possibility to take several mathematics modules. These courses are taught with one week intensive modules on a subject. This meant that I spent the past week teaching the first Linear Algebra module. This module covers [...]
On the way to this event we drove through heavy rain and several stretches of flooded road. On arrival in the car park we learnt that those coming from the west had had hail and thunderstorms on the way. So it was with some relief to that when I went out to compete it was [...]
Last week I was in Florida for SC06. The locals were saying it had recently got colder, which translated to only 25ish daytime temperatures. Of course the warm weather did not agree with me and I went down with flu and spent most of the week stuck in the hotel.
My colleagues assure me that it [...]
After running the day before and recent long hours in work this was probably not an event for me. Which was a shame, as it was glorious out in the New Forest - good weather and a good forest. I ended up abandoning my course, having a refreshing run around, and punching some of the [...]
Some photos from the event are here.
A very enjoyable run through the old city. Generally my navigation was fine. Knowing large chunks of Oxford well meant I could pick out some of the passageways and better route choices from a quick glance at the map. I had a few problems getting into Wadham - totally [...]
Microsoft released IE7 last week and it seems likely that Firefox 2 will be released tomorrow. I have been running the Firefox 2 development branch nightly builds for a while now and on Friday I fired up a virtual machine, running WinXP, and installed IE7 to give it a try.
The first thing noticed is that [...]
A struggle.
The Compass Sport Cup/Trophy Final was yesterday at Greenham Common. In a change to usual even those of us belonging to clubs who had failed to qualify were allowed to run - though either before or after the main competition.
With it being the CSC/T there were a large number of people competing (around 1000 in [...]
I have been making web sites (again). Each time I end up doing this I remember why finding a good designer is important. I can chuck a pile of data/information back at a user, but making it look good really does require someone who knows what they are doing.
For one of the sites I have [...]
The past weekend was the annual south west event - the Caddihoe Chase. Two days of racing, with the second one using a chasing start based on the results from the first day. This year it was a joint WIM/WSX event on Bovington. The north part on day one and the south on day two. [...]
My research group usually holds seminars and meetings on Wednesdays meaning that I cannot get out to the midweek BAOC events that often. However, we are still on a summer semi-break, so I was able to get out and run this week. Might have to see if I can get out more often - these [...]
Back in my previous entry I mentioned that I would write about the World Orienteering Championships and the Tour races. Since then I have been a bit busy and so it has taken a few weeks to write anything. This was my first experience of orienteering abroad and overall it was fairly good. As terrain [...]
Finally back to my place, so that I can update about the World Orienteering Championships 2006. This first update is just a link to all the photos Barny and I took of the various events. I will blog more about the event and spectator races at some stage soon.
Long Qualifiers
Opening Ceremony
Sprint Final - Men
Sprint Final [...]
Harris format relay - starting from near the water.
Not sure my team got the split of controls correct. I was back before the other two people. Though all three of us had had problems with a couple of controls. I had a reasonable run. Seemed to move quite well, just not moving that fast.
Fairly good [...]
Oh dear. My concentration was not good at this event. I kept switching off and running off in the wrong direction.
The first control was a mess. I went all over the place before eventually finding a control from later on my course and navigating in off it. At least three minutes lost, but it seems [...]
I had a couple of objectives for this event. The first was to finish in front of my father and the second was the qualify for the C final. I achieved the former (though by only one second in the heat), but failed on the latter.
In between the heats and finals I took some photos [...]
Three events in Wiltshire. Nice and close to my parents place, so only a little travelling for me over the weekend
BEOC Middle - Fonthill
(29th April)
Running a classic length elite course is simply far too far for me. This means that when a middle, or sprint, event comes around I take the option of [...]
This area allows for fairly fast running - there is little climb and the forest had little vegetation.
I probably needed to be more relaxed out of the start. A stupid mistake meant I ended up looking for the first control in the wrong block of forest, and so lost about four minutes on what should [...]
This was a score event, organised as part of the Wednesday military league. Due to other commitments I rarely get to go out to these events, which is a shame - they are usually fairly good.
After a quick look at the map I decidedly that I would head out towards a group of controls and [...]
British Orienteering Championships
(1st April - aka April Fools Day)
Very, very muddy. Slipped early on in the course, between controls one and two, and landed on a lump of rock. That left me struggling to run and so I decided to take it easy - walking much of the rest of the course. Cannot [...]
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