I have finally found some time to catch up on the orienteering race reports from the events I went to just after Easter. Staying in Northern Ireland allowed time for a couple of post JK events in the Mourne Mountains and then it was down to the Wicklow Mountains for the Irish Championships. Post JK: [...]
Sadly I was ill in the run up to this race and had not fully recovered in time to race. I attempted the qualifier, but my pace and HR information show that I was putting in too much effort for the speed I was managing – meaning that I should not have run. My route [...]
Last Friday I travelled down for the 5k race organised by Poole Runners. This was the third in the series of six events, which take place once a month from October to March. I ran two of the races in the series last year, with my 5k PB coming in the equivalent race last December. [...]
A couple of weekends ago I travelled up to Scotland to watch and compete in the Park World Tour and to watch the Junior Home International (JHI). I flew out of Southampton Airport and this reminded me that flying from the smaller regional airports is a nicer experience than going through a big place like [...]
Having had a good run in the individual it was on to the relay competition, which was using the part of Culbin I had run on last year. For the relays I was running the middle leg in Mens Short. The first runner back helpfully warned all the waiting second leg runners that we would [...]
Last year I ran at Culbin and made a reasonable job of it, so it was with some confidence that I returned this year. For the individual we were running on a bit to the east of the one used last summer. I did not start too well. I allowed myself to be distracted by [...]
Qualifier Photos: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 My Route I had a slightly slow first control, while I struggled to locate exactly where I was and where I was going. After that I kept a good pace through the first half of the course, with only a small wobble [...]
Photos: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 My Route From waking up on Saturday morning I was never feeling too great and this was reflected in my run. While my navigation and route choice was ok, I never managed to get a decent pace going. For the first couple of controls my [...]
Photos 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 My Run I was running Mens Short this year. Due to child care arrangements I was going off in the mass start on first leg. I often struggle to get my pacing right in such situations and also struggle to get in contact [...]
Photos 1 – 2 My run My run here can be summed up quite easily. I was not in the right frame of mind and did not push myself. I should have run a lot faster, but never really got going. My route shows that my navigation was reasonably fine. I had two poor controls. [...]
Photos String Course My Run Like the sprint area, Leith Hill had also been used for the World Cup 2005 spectator races. I started at a good pace before missing control 4 and losing two minutes. For the next few controls I did not push myself and lost some time. I then made a mistake [...]
Photos Sprint: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 String Course and Tempo Sprint Prizegiving: 1 – 2 – 3 My Run At the World Cup spectator races, in 2005, I had a really good run around the University of Surrey [...]
Today was a Military League (S) event at Ocknell. As with a large portion of the New Forest the area was rather wet in places. As I was helping with event setup and at the start I spent some of the time taking some photos and so, also, did my father. Photos page: 1 – [...]
I have been using Flickr to host my orienteering photos for a couple of years. Every now and then the Flickr team rolls out a new feature – collections and maps being two past examples. This month they have added two great features: stats and photo editing. You need to be a pro member to [...]
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 [...]
On Sunday it was the Southern Orienteering Championships, at West Wood near Marlborough. I had not originally intended to go, which meant I ended up entering on the day. I was running in a new pair of O-shoes and went out on the 5.8km M21V course. The first two controls, of ten, contributed about half [...]
In the best traditions of the ‘rest’ day I kept fairly busy. I did not, however, take part in mountain bike orienteering – which sounds to have been fairly epic! Tomintoul My day started with a trip over to Tomintoul to visit the Whisky Castle. There I tasted a few, before picking up a bottle [...]
My father has uploaded his photos from the O-Ringen. Somehow I never got round to taking any photos myself!
This past weekend I was in Wales for the 2007 British Orienteering Championships and British Relay Championships. However, the early May Bank Holiday weekend also means the Reading Beer Festival.
Too sleepy to comment on the JK now, but have just finished uploading photos – so some links to those. Sprint Trail-O Day 1 Prizegiving Relays
On Saturday I went up to Malvern to meet up with a group of friends from my undergraduate days. Due to complicated scheduling this was our 2006 Christmas meetup! A rather good day On Sunday I was at Inside Park for an a local orienteering event. The photos from the event are here. I had [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
