On Sunday I ran the Southern Championships at Burnham Beeches and Egypt Woods. Since I am racing on four consecutive weekends I planned to treat this as a training run and not go full out. This would then allow me to run in a new pair of shoes – Inov-8 X-Talon 212. However, on starting [...]
For the past two weeks I have been involved in the organisation for the British Schools Orienteering Championships. Last week it was preparing the equipment for use and this week it was drying it all and returning it. Today, finally, the house is looking like a home again, instead of a drying room.
On Saturday I [...]
I was able to make another of the fine BAOC events today. This time it was into the New Forest – to Red Shoot, which I do not think I had run at before. I chose to run the A course – 8.1km.
I started fast, too fast – the good open area inviting fast running. [...]
For several years now I have been keeping an orienteering/training log. This is something I programmed myself, as a project to learn php/mysql. I keep thinking about moving to a different system – Attackpoint or Nopesport for instance – but then remember how much info I have already and decide not to.
Over the last few [...]
When north is not north!
Over the last few months I had been noticing that every time I ran on a compass bearing I seemed to be ending up off to one side of where I had expected to be. I had been thinking that I was not running particularly accurately on the bearing, but on [...]
