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Thoughts of a spectator at the World Orienteering Championships and elsewhere.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

APOC 2006: The emergence of China?

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A little late perhaps, but here are a few thoughts about the Hong Kong Championships and Asia Pacific Orienteering Championships (APOC) hel...
Wednesday, November 22, 2006

A Few Quick Facts...

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Who is the only British orienteer to have been British M or W21 Champion at Long, Middle, Sprint and Night distances and also won the JK? ...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Oxford City Race: The first of many?

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Last Saturday nearly 300 orienteers experienced the delights of the Oxford City Race . In perfect weather we got a chance to run round all ...
Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Planning for London 2012

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There was an article in The Times today that looked at preparations for the equestrian events at the 2012 Olympics . These will be held in ...
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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Pin Punches: An Endangered Species

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Tomorrow's event at Chobham Common will mean that I have gone a whole year (and 55 events) since I last used pin punching. The graph s...
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Virtual orienteering heaven

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The new release of Catching Features has finally arrived. If you've never tried it then I suggest downloading the demo immediately, and...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

WOC Database Updated

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I've now managed to get all of the WOC relay results in to the Maprunner WOC Database . The individual runners from each team are still ...
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Monday, September 11, 2006

Parakeets at Hampstead Heath

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I controlled the London Orienteering Klubb event on Hampstead Heath yesterday. Hampstead is only four miles from central London, but offer...
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Friday, September 08, 2006

The Power of World of O

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My website normally goes along averaging about 200 hits a day. So why did I suddenly get 10 times the traffic on Wednesday? Because Mike Egl...
Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Running to catch up

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After a period of silence it's time to try to catch up. There have been all sorts of things I have been meaning to write about, but just...
Friday, August 18, 2006

WOC Results and Statistics

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I've commented previously that it turned out to be very hard to find a good source of results for WOC. I'm looking at setting someth...
Thursday, August 10, 2006

A Great WOC, That's For Sure

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Is this the real star of WOC2006? The photo shows Per Forsberg , chief speaker for WOC 2006, and apparently a well-known TV commentator on f...
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Saturday, August 05, 2006

WOC+8: Who wants to win the relays?

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A weird day at the relays, where several of the top teams got into a good position only to throw it away with quite serious mistakes. Norwa...

WOC+7: Jamie Stevenson World Champion TM part 2

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Well maybe not World Champion again, but a bronze medal in the Middle Race was a pretty impressive achievement. The crowd was crammed onto a...

WOC+6: Picnic time

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A day off for the big boys, but day 4 of the WOC Tour for us, and a chance to see the Long Distance area. Pleasant enough but nothing specia...
Thursday, August 03, 2006

WOC+5: Normal service is restored

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The long distance final restored normal order, but only just. Pre-race favourites Simon Niggli and Janne Lakanen took gold, but it was clos...
Wednesday, August 02, 2006

WOC+4: Queen of the South

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So now we know Simone can be beaten, and by a junior at that. Hanny Alston from Australia took gold in the sprint final at the end of a hect...
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006

WOC+3: WOC Tour Day 2

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Another day, another event to run. This time the WOC Tour was just south of Arhus in the forest along the coast. This was predominantly beec...
Sunday, July 30, 2006

WOC+2: Long Distance Qualification

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After a hot day spectating and competing in the Danish sunshine we can now start to answer those important questions that all spectators ne...
Saturday, July 29, 2006

WOC+1: Here we go

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Two days of silence whilst we were traveling avoided the problem of getting to WOC-0, since I clearly miscalculated two weeks ago. Anyway...
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